Battery for a MaxII OH160

[BulletBoy]

Hi,

anyone know the specs for a batery for my MaxII tecumseh OH160?

thanks,

Steve.

[Heaven's Pavement]

I'm corious myself the crankng amp nessary to start.Ovious more the colder.
Mine(same engine) has a tractor battery. Read somewhere on here that someone was not all that impressed, mine was real low when I got the machine, so I have no difinitive answer.
Wonder if a small car battery whould fit

[Heaven's Pavement]

If it is cranking amps you are after, it is a minimum of 32 cranking amps, cold temp cranking amps is 50

[coosaridgerider]

I run a 230 cranking amp riding mower battery in my maxll and it works great.

[Heaven's Pavement]

Sorry to hijack your thread Bullet Boy, but it looks like I'll have to get a new battery soon.
On that mower battery, care to share specs brand, model number, where you bought it?
Does it fit in the origanal battery compartment,
Thanks for the help,
Heaven's Pavenment

[coosaridgerider]

Sorry to hijack your thread Bullet Boy, but it looks like I'll have to get a new battery soon.
On that mower battery, care to share specs brand, model number, where you bought it?
Does it fit in the origanal battery compartment,
Thanks for the help,
Heaven's Pavenment

The battery i use is a super start part#u1rh 275 cranking amps @o degree 335@35 degrees,At oreillys auto parts for i think about $30 on sale.It fits the battery box.

[Heaven's Pavement]

Coosaridgerider, thanks for the reply.
Unfortunately that store does not exsist and tey do not ship batteries.
Looking on thier site there are deep discharge ones, combining that with the amp you have gives me a target to shoot for

[BulletBoy]

We've been using a 300CCa battery, then a jump-starter running 600! Our problem is that the starter cannot spin the engine fast enough for the thing to fire. we manually decompressed the cylinder by holding the exhaust valve open whilst we span the starter, once up to speed we dropped the valve and the thing burst into life (which was fun with the rocker cover off ).

anyway - I think 300CCA is fine for the battery so am now suspecting we need a new starter or a rewind - any thoughts?

Steve.

[coosaridgerider]

We've been using a 300CCa battery, then a jump-starter running 600! Our problem is that the starter cannot spin the engine fast enough for the thing to fire. we manually decompressed the cylinder by holding the exhaust valve open whilst we span the starter, once up to speed we dropped the valve and the thing burst into life (which was fun with the rocker cover off ).

anyway - I think 300CCA is fine for the battery so am now suspecting we need a new starter or a rewind - any thoughts?

Steve.

I would take the starter to get it checked.Usually a place that rebuilds alternaters rebuild starters and could check it for you.