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Originally Posted by Bill
Many years ago, I did the same thing on the normal-size battery box in my 2002 TM. There was apparently no support below it. When the trailer met a traffic bump or a curb (I wasn't the driver, I don't know which), the battery box dropped through the aluminum skin of the lower floor, pulled down the pan, and onto the asphalt. Be aware!
Bill
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We often camp and go off-roading in the desert near the Salton Sea (not in summer). We go about 2 miles back in on a very rough dirt road. I haven't had an issue. I recently switched to A LiFeP04 battery which is about 1/4 of the weight of the Trojan T105s.
I wounder if your 2002 TM had the square aluminum rear bumper. On the later models the battery area is supported by the frame, the back edge of the steel bumper box and the roof torsion bars are under that. The inner 1/4 of the battery box is sitting squarely on the frame. No way a battery or anything else is going through all that.