1955 battery removal

[Roger Zimmermann]

I have to replace my '56 battery here shortly....again. 

Me too...By getting older (me), the battery removal is not going to be easier!

[Joe G 12138]

With battery fully disconnected and ready to hoist out... I have securely clamped a large vise grips to the inside battery top post (closest engine) and lift it out using the vice grip as a handle.

I remember when I was a boy my uncle trying to do that with 2 vice grips, one on each terminal. When the second one bit, he got bit. He hit his head on the hood and banged his elbows and I heard some new words that I never heard before!

[The Tassie Devil(le)]

Finally found a picture of how the lifting tool is used.   The short piece jambs up against the terminal, so there is no way of it coming off.

I have seen others lifting the battery as in the previous picture, but this is the way I have always done it.

Bruce.