Taylor dunn ft280 battery swap from lead to lithum?

[rockfish]

Hello everybody ! new to forum , golf cart ect.
I recently picked up and early 90s ft 280 36 volt retired utility cart ( people transport ) from an airport. Its really cool looking and i love driving it around. Ive done a little work on it replacing ball joints, steering , new tires , paint job..... it does run and drive at about 12 mph which is ok to me but i was wondering about swapping the old lead acid batteries with a 36v lithium. Theirs not a whole lot of info on these on here so maybe some of yall have had some experience with this. my question is, can i just replace the batteries . plug and play or do i need to do controllers ect. This set up currently has the original solenoids and like i said seems to be working fine. Thanks .

[mfinnegan]

you can just swap the lead acid for lithium. the cart only knows its getting 36v, doesn't care where it's from.

[rockfish]

Thats what i thought , just wanted to get a second opinion before i jumped on it. Thx!

[kcmiller]

Let me know what you end up doing. We just got an r380. I started to look into a lithium conversion then stopped when I saw how expensive a decent charger would cost on top of the batteries...