New OEM Battery vent tube

Your new battery probably doesn't take vent tubes look at the rubber strips that run down your battery on your old battery try to move those to the new battery I don't think they'll lay down properly and if you look down in those holes that you pulled your rubber hoses off your original battery which you probably can't because you turned it in The newer ones are unvented so you can lay the rubbers down if you save them I don't know what you turned in I don't have the picture. But I believe the newer setups the one I put in my '09 during the pandemic at the beginning of no vent tubes either so the vent tube that's in the car that penetrates the floorboard mine's just turned 90° and laying there to doing nothing I could have pulled it out and thrown it away but it keeps that hole sealed up and all that back where it is so I just left it. So I wouldn't sweat it I don't think your new battery vents look at those little titties that stick up that the rubber tube strip goes down running the top of each side of the battery they're they're no holes there right they're sealed up take a q-tip size stick or something and stick it in try and stick it in there it stops I do believe.

 

Toyota phased out that vent tube system starting in I think 2011. The cooling system for OEM battery is a sufficient venting system, but you can use your old ones if want, they'll fit. There's a problem with the type of material those vent tubes are made with in that they interact with the gas that vents from the battery cells causing a foul smell. If you have a Prius with that smell coming out of air intake next to passenger side back seat not installing your old vent tubes will help prevent that issue.

 

Yeah like I said I think all the new batteries that you buy now at the Toyota dealership or through that system The vents don't go anywhere You can put the rubber tubes on and the white y connector at the back and the tube from the car that goes to the floor all on they're just not doing anything I tend to leave them off it seems to give a little more room for air flow doesn't have to smash into those two big fat tubes that are almost an inch diameter taking up that space.

 

Looks like there's a Gen 5 module now. The Gen 4 has a barb on that fitting. Can you provide a photo of the entire top of the module?

 

The barb is there I think on most of the modules when they're not using the vent you can look down the little vent hole and see it goes nowhere You can put a tube on it and blow on it and it's just nothing full of vacuum on it little bury the gauge.

 

You misunderstand what I wrote. Every Gen module prior to this "photo" has a barb at the top of that tube, whether the tube is used for a pressure relief or blanked off. That photo shows a tube that is straight and smooth from top to bottom, no barb. It's different, so must be Gen 5, which I've never seen yet.

 

Yes it goes down there That's where you should have taken it off from It's the bottom nut that holds down the battery computer that strip of foil and whatever else you got down there and eylet or something

 

I think you're going to have a problem. Did you save the black plastic piece that mounts on top of the white end clamp? The wire you have that goes on top of the modules and has the temperature sensor should clip into it as it passes over the white wall/clamp piece. If you left it on the core and turned it in, you're going to damage your new battery. That black plastic piece forces cooling air from the fan to flow downward through the modules. If you don't have it, the air will just blow across the top of the modules and out to other side.

 

Rack them up let him rip no vent tubes.

 

Oh boy .

 

On low you will not hear fan till at stop light or driveway sitting . If listening carefully. Newer units vents closed off

 

Look at the battery photo in this ebay auction. I'm talking about the black plastic piece that clips into place on top of the white end clamp nearest the ecu. Without it, your battery will overheat. The metal case seals against the top and sides of it to prevent cooling air from just blowing out the end of the case. It stops the air flow and forces it to go downward between the modules.

There's also one attached at the bottom of the same end clamp, but it's already installed on the new battery, the top one is not, because it is very easy to just pop it off when you have to remove the inlet air temperature wire and sensor anyway.

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Well most people have that when they disassemble their business enough to take the core in and have the pieces to reassemble unless they just haven't read up and don't know what they're doing which I guess happened maybe here I don't know I might have that plastic piece I've got a bunch of racks assembled with the nylon ends so I should have the black pieces not necessarily clipped to those but probably laying on the floor right near all the battery stuff that's getting ready to go to the dump or somewhere But yeah usually that's gets thrown in the trunk when you're disassembling the business getting ready to go get your new battery You take the front end off the ground screw for the ECU and all that has to be undone any of the plastic duct work plastic end caps any of that stuff just gets thrown in the spare tire well that's why it needs to be dry back there and then all you're pulling out is to rack of modules and the bottom tray essentially less weight really. Anyway yeah you'll probably want that piece or you can stuff some foam in there you know like they use under metal roofing that sort of thing any of that kind of open or closed cell phone and say a 1-in square would probably get it Can you put around your air window air conditioner when you have to have one