Exide Battery Vent Elbow and Tube Install

Do you have to change anything? I replace our OEM with an Optima, a year back, and just hooked up the original vent tube and elbow. The vent port on the battery was the same size/location.

 

Oh, ok.

One thing I found: with Toyota's hold-down bracket design, battery height is critical. Even slight variation mess it up, a poor, unaccomodating design. It's fixable with a bit of shimming under battery or washers under the bracket.

 

I think I used the original elbow on my Canadian Tire battery. I had to pry out the yellow plug on the battery. My battery didn't come with an elbow as I recall.

 

And the Canadian Tire battery is likely rebadged Exide.

 

You'd be ok for a few days anyway, till you sort it out.

 

If that is your battery in the picture just pull the elbow off the hose and shove the hose on the installed elbow. Save the original elbow "just in case".

 

manufactured in july 2014....??

 

Looks like duplicate pic of @Patrick Wong post.

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Top clarify, all AGM batteries, including the original one and the Exide, are a type of lead-acid battery. They have (or don't have, a different debate) equal need for venting.

 

@Siward Please post if/when your Motomaster is installed, how it went. It's definitely better deal than Toyota OEM right now (they're around $270 last time I check), and maybe $10~20 cheaper than Optima. I put in the latter a bit over a year back, but it seems like Canadian Tire is pretty on the ball with batteries: we put CT battery in our son's Civic, and it was dimensionally exact match, and good CCA from the get go.

Also..., at least at the store I was at: they had a pro-level digital CCA tester, and were more than willing to hook up the battery I was getting. I had brought along my Solar BA5 tester, but they offered. It showed very good CCA, well above spec, and I verified later with mine.