Driver Side Battery Tray
Mountain Pass
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Hi,I bought a 25$ reproduction for the pass. battery cut all the spot welds and flipped all of the brackets on the tray to the opposite direction and welded it back together and made a factory drivers side tray that looks stock and bolts in to all of the factory locations.The trays are mirrors of each other..
Chris
Chris
Laughing Gas
Joined: Jan 2016
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From: Hartford, WI
+2 on that! I didn't want to spend that kinda money either. The last used one I seen it go for over $100 as well.
I'm not in a hurry to do the 2nd battery but it's on my radar. Reworking an aftermarket try to a left hand side works for me!
I'm not in a hurry to do the 2nd battery but it's on my radar. Reworking an aftermarket try to a left hand side works for me!
Fleet Owner
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: NorCal
Hi,I bought a 25$ reproduction for the pass. battery cut all the spot welds and flipped all of the brackets on the tray to the opposite direction and welded it back together and made a factory drivers side tray that looks stock and bolts in to all of the factory locations.The trays are mirrors of each other..
Chris
Chris
That means the brackets would have to be bent 180° or the brackets are not bolted to the core support and inner fender as originally designed.
If it is, then kudos. But I've thought of doing the same with a passenger bracket and its a no-go.
Fleet Owner
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From: NorCal
All is not lost...an option is to find a rotted driver-side tray and drill out its brackets and reuse them on the repro passenger-side tray... after removing its passenger-side specific brackets of course.
Cross-Country
Joined: Jan 2018
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From: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Both my DS brackets aren't too, too bad, the bigger one is iffy, maybe I can use them on a new base tray.
Thx for the advice.
Thx for the advice.
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Mountain Pass
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That's not possible if the brackets are physically mirrored of each other.
That means the brackets would have to be bent 180° or the brackets are not bolted to the core support and inner fender as originally designed.
If it is, then kudos. But I've thought of doing the same with a passenger bracket and its a no-go.
That means the brackets would have to be bent 180° or the brackets are not bolted to the core support and inner fender as originally designed.
If it is, then kudos. But I've thought of doing the same with a passenger bracket and its a no-go.
Chris
Fleet Owner
Joined: Dec 2009
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From: NorCal
And what you wrote lacked specificity as to cutting the brackets themselves to reverse their direction.
Moving on...
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Great option
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