« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: AGM battery for a CB550?  (Read 1643 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Scott S

  • Global Moderator
  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,232
AGM battery for a CB550?
« on: April 23, 2017, 10:01:20 AM »
What AGM battery are you guys running in a CB500/550?
 Stock battery is a YB12A-A. When I look at the AGM batteries at the parts store, nothing seems to be an exact match or cross reference. Even Google turns up little (and lots of hits for small, under tail batteries, etc).

 My VF500 uses the same battery and I'd love to find and AGM that swaps over or at least has similar dimensions.
Logged
'71 CB500 K0
'17 Triumph Street Scrambler
'81 Yamaha XS650

Offline flatlander

  • Old Timer
  • ******
  • Posts: 2,605
Re: AGM battery for a CB550?
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2017, 10:28:05 AM »
i have the motobatt MB12U. it's a perfect fit in place of the yuasa and the terminals are good.
Logged

Offline calj737

  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *******
  • Posts: 21,040
  • I refuse...
Re: AGM battery for a CB550?
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2017, 01:25:40 PM »
Scorpion is a very popular brand.
Logged
'74 550 Build http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=126401.0
'73 500 Build http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132935.0

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of it's victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis

Offline jonda500

  • I may be crazy but I'm not stupid!
  • Master
  • *****
  • Posts: 1,804
  • With our thoughts we make the world (Monkey Magic)
Re: AGM battery for a CB550?
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2017, 05:24:34 PM »
Scorpion is the only brand I've found that makes a battery that's an exact match to the original (including the terminals), unfortunately they are not available in Australia so I still run lead acid batteries (with the breather tube on!).
John
Logged
Remember that an ignoramus is only someone who doesn't know something you just learned yesterday!

A starter clutch thread:
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,122084.0.html
1972 CB500K1 original 4 owner bike
1972 CB500K1 returned to complete/original condition
1975 CB550F built from parts - project thread:
http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,149161.msg1711626.html#msg1711626
197? CB500/550 constructing from left over parts
1998 KTM 380 (two stroke) recent impulse buy, mmmm...

Offline Scott S

  • Global Moderator
  • Really Old Timer ...
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,232
Re: AGM battery for a CB550?
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2017, 05:46:31 PM »
 Ordered two Scorpions tonight.
Logged
'71 CB500 K0
'17 Triumph Street Scrambler
'81 Yamaha XS650
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »