Battery Box Alternatives

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Al2O3

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Battery box is pretty goosed
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The green patch in the middle of the rust is the lawn behind!

Fancy one from YRM £75+VAT. Before I buy one, would anyone recommend anything else? Does anyone have experience of the plastic ones?
 
I bought a YRM one, so recently that I'm still in the process of fitting it! It fits very well, and is easy enough to do - the hardest part was removing the rusted nuts to take off the sill rail, and the fact that my little rivet gun isn't man enough to pop the stainless rivets that come with it. (My knackered hand doesn't help either........ surgery in 3 days!)
 
Is it not easier to but some plate and make your own box ?
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I know what you're saying Lurch and as a one off yeah, but having spent months and countless hours on the rebuild I've gotten to the stage of accepting that sometime spending some cash saves hours of work.

Cut it out.... weld a new bit in job done.
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As above really, but having gone to the trouble and expense of a new galv chassis and bulkhead I want other bits to look good :)
 
I bought a YRM one, so recently that I'm still in the process of fitting it! It fits very well, and is easy enough to do - the hardest part was removing the rusted nuts to take off the sill rail, and the fact that my little rivet gun isn't man enough to pop the stainless rivets that come with it. (My knackered hand doesn't help either........ surgery in 3 days!)
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Did you look at other alternatives?
 
Try L&G Services (thelannydoctor.co.uk), they don't show a price on-line but when I was speaking to them last year they were cheaper than YRM.

I was going to buy a new galvanised battery-box off them last year however when I removed my old one and cleaned it up I discovered that it was actually in really sound condition so just had it galvanised myself. It looked bad due to flaking paint & underseal but when stripped to bare metal there was no rust at all.
 
:eek: bugger!

Having second thoughts now. I think I'll take wire brush and grinder to it for 10mins at the weekend and possibly reconsider. I'll investigate the galv ones too.
 
The battery box is a simple welding repair. Pick up a second hand welder and find someone locally who can teach you. Something like the battery box is a good practice and then cover it in decent rust inhibiting paint. Worst thing that can happen is you can't fix it and have bought a welder, best thing is that you do fix it and have gone down the road of learning to weld which is useful whilst owning a landrover :D
 
I'm going to have another favourable look at it on the weekend. :)

However, YRM is 60 mile away and I travel half way there to go to work. ;)
 
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