My main (driver's side) battery tray is rotten. Thinking of cutting out the old metal and welding in a new plate. Is this sensible and is there anything special I should beware of? Thanks.
You can buy the whole tray for £30-40. I’d just fit one of them personally. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If you get the metal clean enough, you can glue the outside edge of a new tray to avoid burning/setting fire to the paint on the outside of your bus.
Remarkably, when I fitted a new tray I jammed up some wet rags to the outside of the bus and welded it in. I didn't have great hopes but you can't see a trace of the paint burning. It would have been good to know about Tigerseal at the time mind.
I agree it's a miracle. My intention was only to keep the burning to a minimum, but there was none on the outside.
Going by my bus, there is probably 5mm of semi charred filler in there. No way a decent weld puddle wouldnt almost melt the outside of the metal.
Yuck indeed , not the end of the world though - you`ll just need to buy a lower rear panel as well ..
Yeah, more of an bloody inconvenience to be honest. Cant seem to put my hands on a repair panel for this though , other than the tall panel which comes to beyond the rear hatch height, bit of a waste of a panel and it doesn’t have the ‘72 bump for the bumper guards.
