i jumpstarted a guy earlier today and i started thinking about something. is there any way to wire in like a small motorcycle battery with a switch so that if im ever in a situation with a dead battery i can easily just flip the switch and have my motorcycle battery feed some juice into my main batt? just a simple hot line to my battery and a ground connection with a switch somewhere in between i think will work. but im not sure

 

or you can buy something much safer
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/produ...ci_sku=5679656

 

no reason you couldnt, but by the time you did it, it would be worth it to just buy one of those booster packs

 

That is basically what I have on my '85:
http://www.4crawler.com/4x4/CheapTri...atteries.shtml

The batteries I run are not much larger than a motorcycle battery, in fact it is used on the '97 and newer Harleys.

And all I do is flip the switch to power the solenoid from the 2nd battery, wait a few seconds and then hit the key and it starts right up. Have done this countless times over the last 10 years.

 

thanks for that, i thought everybody was going to think i was stupid with that idea. but that is basically what i had in mind