Minor Things - Battery Tray

Here's some little things I've been up to, thought I would update. I've been working on the rebuilding of the factory 1968 AM-FM Stereo and oof will that be a very long post as I'm almost done with it.

But in the interim I tackled the battery tray, I could have stripped and powder coated the one in the XL, but I needed a battery tray for one of our parts cars I wish to get in a running state to move around. So I bought another battery tray.

New one.

This tray was part of a kit, where you get the threaded J bolts and the top hold down.

There's the old one out of the XL. It's not beyond redemption, just I needed another battery tray.

I found someone selling the Ford 5/16" body bolts in 304 stainless so I bought about 150 of those for all the cars.

Interestingly the battery tray mounts parallel to the front of the car in the '68. The '65/'66 mounts on an angle.

It seems the bracket from the battery to the radiator support is missing on this XL and my two '68 parts cars. I'll have to make a bracket from scratch.

And actually this is the tray out of the XL after stripping and powder coating.

This is this orientation in the '65/'66.

Unfortunately the '65/'66 brace bracket will not fit the '68.