1957B61Vt Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Hi fellasWhat are you buying for battery's?Brand name?Looking for good onesBought some from Napa a while backDidn't have good luckI can find deka , interstate, Napa or exide at tractor supply which I have been told to stay Away from. Steve Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I have had good luck with NAPA and horrible performance from Exide. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Ditchkus Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 Talk about a day late and a dollar short. Stadium International Olyphant,Pa. had a sle on 925 amp batteries $77.00 with exchange. It was there November sale. If you have an IH Dealer near you try them.Through the years I used all the brands you named and never any problems with them. Joe D. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatcity Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 surprised you had bad luck with Deka and Napa Quote Success is only a stones throw away.................................................................for a Palestinian Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1957B61Vt Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 No never tried dekaOnly Napa and those lasted About a year I don't know who makes Napa batterys I know few places sell interstate and deka in town I live in Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268831 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I believe East Penn makes the batteries for NAPA.Deka is part of East Penn. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268832 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1957B61Vt Posted December 1, 2014 Author Share Posted December 1, 2014 Ok thanksFor the infoJ Hancock good to know Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack man 1973 Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I have had very bad luck as well with exide . They are going out of business. I sell napa batteries at my shop and have had very good luck so far. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
b61mack Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I put a battery tender on my B model, leave it plugged in all winter. it makes the batteries last longer, I too use 2 NAPA group 31 batteries never had a problem. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268838 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freightrain Posted December 1, 2014 Share Posted December 1, 2014 I've got Interstate in mine right now. No problems for 4? years now. Quote Larry 1959 B61 Liv'n Large...................... Charter member of the "MACK PACK" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268839 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Always had good luck with Napa and Interstate and Delco. Had a Napa freeze a few years ago and they stood behind it, even though it was not the batteries fault. Paul Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
farmer52 Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 Remember, several brands of batteries may be built by one company (example East Penn), does not mean they are built to the same specs.My batteries are Bulldog brand (Willoughby, OH)(no idea who made them)(these are NOT MACK Bulldog batteries) that I bought in 2011 and so far so good (keep a battery maintainer on them October thru April). Quote Ken PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack" Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 have had better luck with Napa batteries. id stay far away from Federated always had good luck with Deka and I have some other brand in my B model that came from Cook Brothers(Utica,Binghamton Ny and Scranton Pa) dunno what they are but they are black with bright blue lettering. they are by far the best batteries I have ever had. Usually you can get better batteries from a Cat or John Deere equipment dealer also. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 believe it or not...the local Mack dealer sells batteries at the best price around here! (and I am a peterbilt guy) but I cant remember the brand. Also I have had good luck with interstate. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268860 Share on other sites More sharing options...
grayhair Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I wouldn't buy an Exide POS battery under any circumstances. I owned some Exide stock years ago, thought it was a good investment when they brought in Bob Lutz (from Chrysler) to run the company. 2 years later he bailed and the thing went surprise BK - tits up. My stock then worthless.Lutz musk of have quickly learned how dishonest an enterprise they were. They lost Sears and some other major retailers when it was discovered they we taking used and recycled batteries and putting them in new cases and selling them as new. Bad stewards of the environment too, EPA problems with contaminated properties. One generation of thieving management ruined an old and once-proud company. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted December 2, 2014 Share Posted December 2, 2014 I am prolly going to jinx myself,but I bought 2 group 31,900CCA INTERSTATE blems (returns that get recharged/rechecked then sold "as is/no warranty") before even buying the unrestored at the time BCR. They have been in said truck since MAY 2001 (no B.S.)! Don't ask me how or why they have lasted so long. The truck sits in cold storage,nowhere near any electric (for a charger),in the spring I prime the fuel pump,give it a small whiff of ether, and away it goes! When I was running my '90 RD, I used Exide (factory batteries at that time) & Bulldog batteries. Usually got 4 years service out of them before replacing all 4 as soon as 1 or 2 started falling off. Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mack man 1973 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 No joke I just replaced the battery in my ford 1520 tractor i bought it at quality farm and fleet in October of 1998 and it just now went bad. I kept the core just for a conversation peice Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kansas farmer Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 We put bulldog batteries in everything. Best price around here. I just bought 4 the other day 75 a piece with core. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268936 Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSD501 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I am prolly going to jinx myself,but I bought 2 group 31,900CCA INTERSTATE blems (returns that get recharged/rechecked then sold "as is/no warranty") before even buying the unrestored at the time BCR. They have been in said truck since MAY 2001 (no B.S.)! Don't ask me how or why they have lasted so long. The truck sits in cold storage,nowhere near any electric (for a charger),in the spring I prime the fuel pump,give it a small whiff of ether, and away it goes! When I was running my '90 RD, I used Exide (factory batteries at that time) & Bulldog batteries. Usually got 4 years service out of them before replacing all 4 as soon as 1 or 2 started falling off.I have had a Cat battery in a cat 242 that made it 9 years, 4000 hours in some pretty rough service. Then one day it just gave out completly. If you have been frustrated by the hasles and costs of short battery life, it is really nice when one lasts. Lately they seem to get stolen before they have a chance to go bad. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 agree RSD501. few farmers been getting ripped of in Upstate Ny recently. thieves came in the night and cut the cables right off a farmers new granite, about 4 Dmm's, one R model and a few Dm's and a few new huge John Deere tractors probably would piss me off more the bastards cut the cables right off rather than stealin my batteries! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1957B61Vt Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 Yeah Our old d-4 cat Has cat battery's in it they were 10 years old last monthStill going probably will go bad now that I mentioned it .Thank you guys for all the comments just wanted to see what everybody else isUsing Steve Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1957B61Vt Posted December 3, 2014 Author Share Posted December 3, 2014 Few weeks ago Friend of mine called me .He said the R model Is steaming from under hoodHe is almost 80 so he asked if I Would look at it so I went overSomeone cut the radiator off with sawzall just core Tanks still there anyone else see that done before?What a mess they also got two chevy pickups just pryed out radiator with barCut hoses with knife .We put up some game cameras and one sends info to cell phone turned out to be his neighbors kidsCops caught them on a return trip for more stuff after camera told him they were in his yard He just called cops they blocked in their pickup and walked in with owner and arrested them Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-268948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 agree RSD501. few farmers been getting ripped of in Upstate Ny recently. thieves came in the night and cut the cables right off a farmers new granite, about 4 Dmm's, one R model and a few Dm's and a few new huge John Deere tractors probably would piss me off more the bastards cut the cables right off rather than stealin my batteries!There was a bunch of thefts here of batteries, diesel fuel and anything copper. Thieves even stole all the Aluminum ramps from the U-Haul trucks. First cold snap I had 100 gallons of diesel taken from an irrigation pump. I marked the tank "Gasoline Only" left about 20 gallons of diesel in it. A few days later we found a kid a mile away broke down, seems his Honda died from 10 gallons or so diesel fuel in the tank. Paul 1 Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-269002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
220cummins Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 Deka, Hands down. I use them in all my personal vehicles and use them in all my customers trucks. I just installed 8 Dekas in Two Freightliners last week. The Fleetrite ones that were in there were marked Jan. 2013.... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-269003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomastractorsvc Posted December 3, 2014 Share Posted December 3, 2014 I just replaced the battery's in my pickup yesterday I bought two duralast from autozone 5 year warranty they installed while I watched replaced two ac delco 78 month 800 CCA with 950 CCA I new early last spring when I had the truck in the auto body shop the did not disconnect and they left the door open over a weekend would not start when I went to pick up so they jumped it off after sitting for a week or so with out running would barley crank but 2 old start I had to take my daughter to the orthodontist yesterday morning 24 degrees truck sitting two weeks went to crank turned over about two three times than nothing dragged the charger up from the shop and jumped it off. Z $123 ea plus used a coupon was $210 after taxI have decent luck with oreilly brand and they are less than napa with same warranty gap 31 in my area are $98 Quote Robert"I reject your reality and substitute my own." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/37940-group-31-batterys/#findComment-269008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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