Hi guys, I’ve been coming to mud for years finding info that has truly helped me beyond belief. Between a few 60 series cruisers a 40 and a few 55s I’ve always found the info I needed (or most of it) from all of y’all. So first off thank y’all so very much!! I was taking with some cruiser guys about my project 55 I’m building up and I was convinced to document my journey this time along.
I’ll post my full build thread this weekend when I get a chance to take more pictures of everything.
One of the things I knocked out today was my battery tray I wanted to build. I’m not sure if anyone has posted up a battery tray build on here but thought I’d drop one on here just in case. The original tray in my pig was rotted away and was virtually non existent. I wanted a slightly more heavy duty tray that would be mounted in the stock location. I went and got some 1/8” thick steel plate from my local metal shop and started to make templates out of my one good side of the original brace.
I measured out the width of my battery (27 group size) 12” long. And made my base based off of the factory size battery. I plan on installing a plastic tray for the battery to sit in to cut down on vibration and allow for drainage if the battery ever leaks or gets water underneath. I’ll post more pictures as I instal the plastic tray later on.
After measuring out all the pieces and cutting them out I welded the rest of it up into what it is now. I can post dimensions of the tray tomorrow to show the size of everything.
Here’s some of the pictures of how it turned out. Excuse the not so great welds. (Not a professional haha) the project from start to finish only took about an hour and a half from start (raw sheet metal) to finish product all welded up. so wasn’t too bad and I’m happy with how it’s coming along so far. I just threw the battery in there as a mock up to show how it sits down. Bottom of the tray is about 1/16” from touching the fender and the top posts of the battery are still clear of the hood by a solid 1.5-2”.
I’ll post my full build thread this weekend when I get a chance to take more pictures of everything.
One of the things I knocked out today was my battery tray I wanted to build. I’m not sure if anyone has posted up a battery tray build on here but thought I’d drop one on here just in case. The original tray in my pig was rotted away and was virtually non existent. I wanted a slightly more heavy duty tray that would be mounted in the stock location. I went and got some 1/8” thick steel plate from my local metal shop and started to make templates out of my one good side of the original brace.
I measured out the width of my battery (27 group size) 12” long. And made my base based off of the factory size battery. I plan on installing a plastic tray for the battery to sit in to cut down on vibration and allow for drainage if the battery ever leaks or gets water underneath. I’ll post more pictures as I instal the plastic tray later on.
After measuring out all the pieces and cutting them out I welded the rest of it up into what it is now. I can post dimensions of the tray tomorrow to show the size of everything.
Here’s some of the pictures of how it turned out. Excuse the not so great welds. (Not a professional haha) the project from start to finish only took about an hour and a half from start (raw sheet metal) to finish product all welded up. so wasn’t too bad and I’m happy with how it’s coming along so far. I just threw the battery in there as a mock up to show how it sits down. Bottom of the tray is about 1/16” from touching the fender and the top posts of the battery are still clear of the hood by a solid 1.5-2”.
