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Help! Don’t know where this black cover goes on my Prius battery!

Discussion in 'Gen 3 Prius Care, Maintenance & Troubleshooting' started by Michael Lashbrooks, Mar 16, 2023.

  1. Michael Lashbrooks

    Michael Lashbrooks New Member

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    I am in the process of rebuilding my battery pack and I found this piece that appears to go my high voltage battery. I have searched the internet and part number on it to no avail.

    Any help is welcomed! TIA!!
     

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    I have a battery rack trays and all that apart right now I just broke down 56 cells I think I'll have to go out and look for that piece or else it's in the car
     
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    I've disassembled probably a hundred Gen 3 HV batteries. I don't recall that component being on any of them. I would venture to say it belongs to something external to the HV battery.

    Very often, these items have a Toyota part number molded into the plastic in an 'out of view' location. If it does, Google has always provided the answer for me.

    Oops, just re-read the post and you've apparently found a part number already. Can you post that?
    It almost looks to be a piece to cover openings in ducts or something similar. Where was it located when you found it?
     
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  4. Michael Lashbrooks

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    Thanks for your input! I’m not 100% sure it goes to my car as I brought my battery over to my buddies house to cycle the batteries as he doesn’t pay for electricity. He claims it’s mine.

    I’ll have to post the part number when I get home but I searched it and couldn’t find it. It looks like some sort of generic electric port cover?
     
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    The part number I have is 7806143
     
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    A ruler or tape measure in the pic would help. Luckily you have a bit of finger in one pic, gives some sense of scale.
     
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    One thing we can say from that is it isn't a Toyota part number, because Toyota part numbers look like nnnnn-nnnnn.

    But that's not any worse luck than usual, because even a lot of the times when a Toyota part has an nnnnn-nnnnn number stamped on it, that number isn't the part number either.
     
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