Battery compartment?

[nspctr1]

Removed the batteries to charge them and decided to clean the compartment up. The bolts holding the tray in place were pretty bad off so I'm going to replace them. Will stainless be OK? Also, found 2 round discs in the bottom of the tray. They are about 3" diameter and abt 1/8" thick. Any idea what these are for?

thx

 

[dmetalmiki]

http://ccsurplus.com/sites/ccsurplu...-386-24P.pdf#page=138&zoom=page-width,-16,390

 

[NormB]

Removed the batteries to charge them and decided to clean the compartment up. The bolts holding the tray in place were pretty bad off so I'm going to replace them. Will stainless be OK? Also, found 2 round discs in the bottom of the tray. They are about 3" diameter and abt 1/8" thick. Any idea what these are for?
thx

After poking around my Humvee for a couple days, it occurred to me I was going to need a LOT of bolts. Or WANTED to replace a lot of them. And washers. And use nylon locknuts on many of them. Amazon has amazing prices on 100-count lots of zinc chromate finished parts and, compared to the big box stores (or even the local ACE hardware which has a good selection of odds-ends, washers, grommets, #8 bolts, more).

I too had some corrosion around the hold-downs, and had a riv-nut tool on hand for other projects, pop-rivet tool I'd had around for 30-some years, so I considered how I'd want to reinforce (if not replace) the battery tray. The trays CAN be replaced, but I like my fix better.

BTW, I tend to use deoxit or other corrosion-resistant lube (the stuff you use for home wiring, like aluminum to copper/steel, I forget the name, stuff's black, conductive, has zinc in it) all over the place. YMMV.


After doing the quick/dirty patches, I went ahead and took a steel brush to the surface then hit it with black zinc oxide primer and more of the rubberized 3M undercoating stuff.

Battery tray inside:



Have fun.

 

[Mike82ndABN]

When that red rubber boot on the forward battery wears out against the battery hold down, you are going to have quite the fireworks show.

After poking around my Humvee for a couple days, it occurred to me I was going to need a LOT of bolts. Or WANTED to replace a lot of them. And washers. And use nylon locknuts on many of them. Amazon has amazing prices on 100-count lots of zinc chromate finished parts and, compared to the big box stores (or even the local ACE hardware which has a good selection of odds-ends, washers, grommets, #8 bolts, more).

I too had some corrosion around the hold-downs, and had a riv-nut tool on hand for other projects, pop-rivet tool I'd had around for 30-some years, so I considered how I'd want to reinforce (if not replace) the battery tray. The trays CAN be replaced, but I like my fix better.

BTW, I tend to use deoxit or other corrosion-resistant lube (the stuff you use for home wiring, like aluminum to copper/steel, I forget the name, stuff's black, conductive, has zinc in it) all over the place. YMMV.

View attachment 663741View attachment 663739View attachment 663740
After doing the quick/dirty patches, I went ahead and took a steel brush to the surface then hit it with black zinc oxide primer and more of the rubberized 3M undercoating stuff.

Battery tray inside:

View attachment 663742

Have fun.

 

[NormB]

When that red rubber boot on the forward battery wears out against the battery hold down, you are going to have quite the fireworks show.

Thanks for pointing that out, Mike.

I adjusted it after the initial install for that exact reason, just didn't take a picture.

 

[Retiredwarhorses]

Don't use stainless steel fasteners on a hmmwv...the aluminum and stainless are not compatible.

 

[Ddk2001]

See here for compatibility of metals and fasteners:

https://www.fastenal.com/content/feds/pdf/Article - Corrosion.pdf

 

[nspctr1]

Thx for that tip. I guess I'll go w grade 8

 

[Myrddin]

After poking around my Humvee for a couple days, it occurred to me I was going to need a LOT of bolts. Or WANTED to replace a lot of them. And washers. And use nylon locknuts on many of them. Amazon has amazing prices on 100-count lots of zinc chromate finished parts and, compared to the big box stores (or even the local ACE hardware which has a good selection of odds-ends, washers, grommets, #8 bolts, more).

I too had some corrosion around the hold-downs, and had a riv-nut tool on hand for other projects, pop-rivet tool I'd had around for 30-some years, so I considered how I'd want to reinforce (if not replace) the battery tray. The trays CAN be replaced, but I like my fix better.

BTW, I tend to use deoxit or other corrosion-resistant lube (the stuff you use for home wiring, like aluminum to copper/steel, I forget the name, stuff's black, conductive, has zinc in it) all over the place. YMMV.

View attachment 663741View attachment 663739View attachment 663740
After doing the quick/dirty patches, I went ahead and took a steel brush to the surface then hit it with black zinc oxide primer and more of the rubberized 3M undercoating stuff.

Battery tray inside:

View attachment 663742

Have fun.

where did you get the pos and bed boots, and is that the factory metal battery hold down? Your work looks clean. I’m replacing some indicator lights and about to replace the windshield retaining bracket. After, I’d like to clean up my battery area too. Mine has some bent areas and it’s just really dirty. Plus I have some cheap batteries (that came with the Humvee) in it now. Was also thinking I’d do the yellow top optama batteries. Are you satisfied with them? My batteries went dead after sitting for a week. I would like something g that can hold a charge longer. Of if they go dead, I need to know they will recover ok.
Thanks for the inspiration. I’m looking around for pics to get ideas.