2013 Persona Project..

At HybridPit. Engine Transplant. More to come.

 

Long story, short…

Dropped off Wednesday morning.
Car prepped Wednesday afternoon.

Thursday, and it was full speed ahead!
Old engine out!
New engine in!
Done!

Friday Testing!
Everything checks out!
Drove back to Northern Cali!
330 mile drive & my car lives another day!

Thank you Hybrid Pit! My car is back on track!

Before:




After!

 

Because I wasn’t driving my car when I had the head gasket problem (before the engine transplant), I drained the car’s 12 Volt Battery just before my trip to Hybrid Pit.

I was able to jump the car with a battery jump pack. Also before the trip, I connected it to a battery charger , settings at 12 volt, AGM, and at 2 amps. The battery charger fully charged the car’s 12 volt battery before my trip to Hybrid Pit.

This is my second 12 volt battery, installed on July 2020. This is almost 4 years old. The original 12 volt battery (lasted 7 years), never drained itself. This was the first time it’s ever happened. Granted this was the longest time it sat and not being driven.

I ended up purchasing a battery charger to see how much longer I could keep it.



It charged it to a full charge twice but on the 3rd and 4th try, I never got the green fully charged light , so I thought the battery was compromised.

to verify this, I purchased a battery tester from Clore Automotive and these were the following test results.








After these results, I’m charging the battery again. Let’s see if I can get it back to a full charge.

 

After 6-1/2 hours, finally got the complete full charge with the green light.

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Kept it plugged it and see what happens.

12 volt battery states to get it fully charged within 10 hours. I will unplug after 3-1/2 hours.

I’m testing it out because I did this battery charge overnight (twice), while I was asleep and when I woke up after the battery was charging just under 10 hours, the battery charger was still on charging mode, amber light.

 

The manual did show this


I’m currently in n Phase 5.

Based on the chart, when I had it charging overnight, the charger was in Phase 7. All I saw was an amber light with no green light.