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ccctimtation
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This may be age induced recall but I think the chassis as well as cab and chassis of the late 60's, 70's, 80's were often transported two or three at a time in a semi-stacked manner. This would preclude having batteries etc. on at least the non-driven chassis.
 
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From my reading and observation I cannot find any Barth that was built that had the MH factory modify the chassis. They bought them all! That said the chassis left the factory (Gillig, Spartan, GMC, Chev., etc) running. It had a chassis battery somewhere, and it was usually in the engine compartment, not a tray.


My Barth came from Barth with a slide out tray that held the chassis battery and the coach batteries.


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Originally posted by Tom K:
From my reading and observation I cannot find any Barth that was built that had the MH factory modify the chassis. They bought them all! That said the chassis left the factory (Gillig, Spartan, GMC, Chev., etc) running. It had a chassis battery somewhere, and it was usually in the engine compartment, not a tray.


My Barth came from Barth with a slide out tray that held the chassis battery and the coach batteries.


Slide out trays would be great, but my '89 Regal has no such thing. Both batteries are easily accessible in the engine compartment though. There is enough space to substitute a bank of golf cart batteries for the existing house/genset battery. It would just be a matter of rigging brackets.


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