Jeff Gordon Power Wheels

The Barbie Jeep Power Wheels has been great fun for the grand sons! Just for the heck of it I checked Craigs list and found a Jeff Gordon Power Wheels.  In excellent condition. Friday evening 27, April,  we bought it and brought it home.

The Jeff Gordon Stock car is 12 volts, it has two 6 Volt batteries connected in series to get the 12 volts.
To access the batteries the whole front nose of the car has to be removed.

 Here you can see the electrical connector that connects the batteries in series and also has connections for the foot petal switch.

I located another nonworking 19.2 volt Craftsman Work Light, took it apart, removed the wires and the on off switch.
 Then cut off the unneeded handle and soldered heavy 10 GA wires to the Work Light Connectors.
Make sure that the Work Light connector polarity is the same as originally wired.

I selected the location behind and under the seat. This will make it convenient to access to the rechargeable 19.2 volt Craftsman battery by laying the seat forward to remove the battery for the connector to put it in the recharger.

I ran the battery wires in the same wiring trough with the Power Wheels motor wiring.
At the shifter the wiring trough is fairly tight to get the wires to lay in place.  the easiest way to get the wires up to connect to the original battery wires that connect near the foot petal switch was to use the hot tip of my soldering iron to melt a hole through the plastic ribbed trough and run the battery power wires along side the foot switch and make the wiring connection in the OEM battery compartment.

Wiring is complete for the 19.2 Craftsman Lithium rechargeable battery.
Reattach the front clip and snap in the battery. Replace the seat.

I need a young volunteer driver...... I wonder where I can find a Little Jeff Gordon?