Miss me? - Battery Mount

[amcordo]

Hi folks!

Has anyone every fabricated a battery mount for the under-seat location that gas tanks are slung? I've got a mount on my seat box but I dislike having it sitting in the interior.

[siii8873]

put it in the engine compartment like late IIA's III's

[amcordo]

put it in the engine compartment like late IIA's III's


Not an option. No room around the engine. Needs to be elsewhere.

[SalemRover]

What about installing a small box in the seat box tool area just like a defender?

-Jason

[SafeAirOne]

Has anyone every fabricated a battery mount for the under-seat location that gas tanks are slung?

Yes.

[amcordo]

Yes.


Got any pics?

[SafeAirOne]

Got any pics?

I'll check. There's not much to it. Just a 2 or 3" deep pan with a lip around the top edge. Cut a hole in the floor of the underseat tool box and insert the pan and rivet the lip of the pan to the bottom of the tool box.

[mrdoiron]

I'll check. There's not much to it. Just a 2 or 3" deep pan with a lip around the top edge. Cut a hole in the floor of the underseat tool box and insert the pan and rivet the lip of the pan to the bottom of the tool box.

Agreed, a number of ways to go, fab something, or grab one off ebay and fit it in... I used one like below to modify and fit once, lots of various ones on ebay if you search battery tray ... :
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NOS-CHRYSLER-MOPAR-PLYMOUTH-DODGE-873345-BATTERY-TRAY-_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQhashZitem230ca52825QQitemZ15053 6005669QQptZMotorsQ5fCarQ5fTruckQ5fPartsQ5fAccesso ries

[SafeAirOne]

OK...Here are some pics and the plans that I made up when I fabbed it up. I'm not sure if those dimensions are completely correct, but the box is made to fit group 34 batteries (group 65's will not fit).

NOTE that this is a dual-battery tray and it was a REAL PITA fitting it through the hole in the seat box (even with the seat and reducer panel removed). Once I got it inside the tool box area, it was even more of a PITA to get it into the hole I cut out in the bottom of the tool box bay.


Click here (http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5215/5407935636_8b861755d9_b.jpg) for a large view of the drawing below:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5215/5407935636_8b861755d9_z.jpg
Battery tray installed under the left-hand seat. View is from the center of the rover looking outboard toward the left front door:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5138/5407871736_6ea62d44eb_z.jpg

View from under the rover looking rearward. Note that my bending brake didn't have the capacity to bend a pan this large, so the bends in the thick stainless steel are kind of "vague" and not fully creased. Also, I didn't have any appropriate solid rivets, so the tabs are bolted and nutted as opposed to riveted:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5218/5407261875_2016749e57_z.jpg

[I Leak Oil]

http://www.roversnorth.com/store/c-172-seat-battery-tool-boxes.aspx

Scroll down a little bit...It's for a defender but you'll get the idea. RN used to sell a version of it for a series but I can't find it on their site anymore.

[lrdukdog]

My seat box had a factory enclosed tool box with a battery sized drop-down in the middle for a second battery. This was under a LDH drivers side. So, unless you have a fuel tank under the seat box there should be a place for the battery under there. This is a 1966 109 SW. I had to remove it to fit an MOD tank in it's place.
Jim Wolf
If you want I can look around for the section that I removed.

[TedW]

My seat box had a factory enclosed tool box with a battery sized drop-down in the middle for a second battery. This was under a LDH drivers side. So, unless you have a fuel tank under the seat box there should be a place for the battery under there. This is a 1966 109 SW. I had to remove it to fit an MOD tank in it's place.
Jim Wolf
If you want I can look around for the section that I removed.

Rovers North sold a replacement underseat box with the battery holder: # CHAS 29

Still offered, according to the site.

[SafeAirOne]

Rovers North sold a replacement underseat box with the battery holder: # CHAS 29

Still offered, according to the site.


CHAS29--That's the one...
http://www.roversnorth.com/store/images/Product/large/CHAS29.JPG

[Les Parker]

Here's the link to RN's battery box, in stock:-

http://www.roversnorth.com/store/p-3177-tool-locker-replacement-assembly-for-seat-box-galvanized-series-ii-iia-with-battery-facil.aspx

[TedW]

Tony:

FWIW I bought and installed the RN version that doesn't have the battery box - otherwise the same as the one shown above.

It fit dandy.

Ted

[jac04]

More info in case you are interested:

[carl k]

Here's what I built to fit two batteries under the left side front seat. This truck is a NADA 109 so it has a different exhaust hanger setup which I needed to clear. It's the same depth as the original single battery recess was. I did not remove the existing steel tool box from the rest of the seat box, so I built the battery recess "in-place" by inserting pieces through the hole I cut into the bottom of the tool box, and them welding them from the inside. Batteries are group 34 Optimas, you can get them in and out okay by rotating them.
http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii343/oldvespa/roverparts/battery_1.jpg


http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii343/oldvespa/roverparts/battery_2.jpg
http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii343/oldvespa/roverparts/battery_4.jpg

http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii343/oldvespa/roverparts/battery_5.jpg

http://i548.photobucket.com/albums/ii343/oldvespa/roverparts/battery_3.jpg

Carl K.