Removing factory battery tray, why did I start this

[kahjdh]

Do you have it on a lift? your shoes look far away.

[Dyno247365]

Originally Posted by kahjdh

Do you have it on a lift? your shoes look far away.

it's on a jackstand, no setting


hasn't moved since this pic

[Rally Sport]

How'd you get that hit on the side there?

[Dyno247365]

Originally Posted by Rally Sport 92

How'd you get that hit on the side there?

...don't ask me lol, i'm just fixing it

[Dyno247365]

Okay no joking around this time...don't laugh, I need pictures of your third gen battery trays, or maybe there's some diagrams that show EXACTLY how the tray should fit? The replacement(black) is a factory fit, but it doesn't exactly fit like the old one anymore.

Update-I'm already started on grinding the weld points and the surface rust

[wrightz28]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver_28

No torch, and i'm trying to save the metal underneath, that's an Idea though for what's left

Yeah but rust is like roaches when you turn the light on, once it's there, it's on the move and in your update picture you can see there' still some there, guess what? it will infect your new piece and turn all your work into ruin. so your reall not saving that much. Rust sucks.

Even funnier, wouldn't it have been easier to work by removing the smacked fender?

[Dyno247365]

Originally Posted by wrightz28

Yeah but rust is like roaches when you turn the light on, once it's there, it's on the move and in your update picture you can see there' still some there, guess what? it will infect your new piece and turn all your work into ruin. so your reall not saving that much. Rust sucks.

Even funnier, wouldn't it have been easier to work by removing the smacked fender?

It's a lot of surface rust and i'm removing all of that. I hope i don't need to replace sheetmetal but I might need to.


and............................

It took one week to take my fender off(yes I did jack up the car higher)

[malletslinger]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver_28

Okay no joking around this time...don't laugh, I need pictures of your third gen battery trays, or maybe there's some diagrams that show EXACTLY how the tray should fit? The replacement(black) is a factory fit, but it doesn't exactly fit like the old one anymore.

Update-I'm already started on grinding the weld points and the surface rust

This thread reminded me that I had a little rust to grind down and paint over in my 89, so I started taking stuff out and while I was there I cleaned all the sheetmetal in there and waxed it, much better...but still need to finish grinding down this rust(taking longer than expected, but it really isnt bad, just hard to get to with my wire-brush drill bits...)
I really should thank you for asking for pics because I needed some motivation to take all this stuff out and give it a good cleaning. I need to resize the pics and I will post them in a couple min.

[malletslinger]

I cant figure out how to put the pics on a post...They may be too big or something.
Send me an email and I will attack the pics to the reply
My email is:
[email protected]

[Genopsyde]

battery tray pics from all 4 viewpoints...

[malletslinger]

Mr. President...Your rust problem is wayyy worse than mine is/was.

[Genopsyde]

yea i know it's pretty bad, oh well, I don't feel like changing it.

[malletslinger]

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I put the black paint on about a year ago to prevent the rust from getting any worse...I should have ground the rust down first Hopefully I wont have this problem again

[malletslinger]

I just cant seem to figure this thing out... My pics should be helpful, but I cant get them to display, so if you want them, send me an email and you will get them all.

[Genopsyde]

send them to me and i'll host em for you