[SteveO]

Be Very careful when doing this job. Yeah, I know, it's just a dumb ass battery but the terminals on top can easily ground out on the frame above. There's very little clearance. I highly recommend taping the frame with electrical tape prior to sliding in the battery so if the terminals touch you wont weld the positve terminal to the frame and start an instant fire. This just happended to me and I cooked a new 100 dollar battery. It wuz a f-ing disaster. Luckily there was no damage to the bike except a small weld and burn spot on the frame. Was glad I had a fire extinguisher cuz trying to blow out the fire was a futile attempt and water just don't jive with electrical fires. Hope this helps someone.

[cowboy]

Steveno sounds like a lessen learned , bad you did it the hard way but a good thing you did learn & thank's for posting it so other's can learn , any time you work around a battery you have to be very carefull , it's no difference then on a cage , glad nothing bad happen to you or you bike