mhalla
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<font color="green"> Any other 2210 owners having a problem with their tractor's battery hold-down clamp destructing?
After noticing some corrosion around the positive electrical clamp, I removed the battery from my 2210 to deal with the corrosion.
That's when I discovered the battery hold-down clamp is destructing. Part of it looks a lot like a burnt piece of wood, all fissured and checked.
It won't be an expensive part to replace at $2.53 but it seems to me that it should have lasted longer than the 19 months I have owned the tractor since I bought it new.
Wish there was an Optima battery that worked in my tractor. Already loosing some paint on the tractor frame beneath and around the batttery due to minor acid spillage from the current battery. If only John Deere had included a tray under the battery to direct any minor spillage away from the body and frame. Come to think of it my old Sears lawn and garden tractor's battery sat in a plastic tray and had a vinyl drain tube to keep battery acid from attacking the tractor's metal frame.
Maybe I just need to check out the latest lawn and garden tractors at Sears, see if one has a battery tray that would it in my 2210, order the corresponding tray from Sears, and install the tray in my tractor.
I have seen some acid neutralizing mats for under a battery that I might have to try as well.
I understand that batteries by their nature are corrosive but there are ways and means of reducing their corrosive impact, few of which seem to have been employed by John Deere in designing this tractor.
The way the hold-down is corroding is really a surprise. If manufacturers can make a plastic case for a battery that is not affected by the acid you would think someone could make a plastic hold-down clamp that would not be affected by the acid.
Mike
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After noticing some corrosion around the positive electrical clamp, I removed the battery from my 2210 to deal with the corrosion.
That's when I discovered the battery hold-down clamp is destructing. Part of it looks a lot like a burnt piece of wood, all fissured and checked.
It won't be an expensive part to replace at $2.53 but it seems to me that it should have lasted longer than the 19 months I have owned the tractor since I bought it new.
Wish there was an Optima battery that worked in my tractor. Already loosing some paint on the tractor frame beneath and around the batttery due to minor acid spillage from the current battery. If only John Deere had included a tray under the battery to direct any minor spillage away from the body and frame. Come to think of it my old Sears lawn and garden tractor's battery sat in a plastic tray and had a vinyl drain tube to keep battery acid from attacking the tractor's metal frame.
Maybe I just need to check out the latest lawn and garden tractors at Sears, see if one has a battery tray that would it in my 2210, order the corresponding tray from Sears, and install the tray in my tractor.
I have seen some acid neutralizing mats for under a battery that I might have to try as well.
I understand that batteries by their nature are corrosive but there are ways and means of reducing their corrosive impact, few of which seem to have been employed by John Deere in designing this tractor.
The way the hold-down is corroding is really a surprise. If manufacturers can make a plastic case for a battery that is not affected by the acid you would think someone could make a plastic hold-down clamp that would not be affected by the acid.
Mike
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