Originally Posted by PNA

Thanks. Mine had nothing like this attached to the battery. I'll look to get something or at least get a hose to hook up to the tube connector and run it to a place where it won't drip onto the vehicle.

We must have had different types of batteries from the OEM. The vents on mine were just small holes on the top of the battery -- they weren't nodes or connectors like the ones on my replacement battery - which looks just like the one in your picture.