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| | | | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 769 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 769 | I have looked in alot of catalogs but cannot find any hold down bolts.
Does anyone reproduce the battery hold down bolt? | | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 | Have you checked the J.C. Whitney catalog ? I believe they still have them.
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| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,792 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,792 | I use a piece of all-thread, and bend a hook into one end by heating it with a torch. For a more stock-appearing one, use non-threaded rod and break out the tap & die set. Thread a short section of the top, and bend the bottom to fit your application.
Jerry
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| | | | | Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 Bubba - Curmudgeon | | Bubba - Curmudgeon Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 29,269 | Lonnie, The bolts on all my '54 battery trays were attached with two heavy rivets per bolt. I used threaded stainless steel rod as described by Jerry but a I ground the threads off on two sides at the bottom of the rod, drilled holes in the flat metal, and attached the rods to the tray with flat-capped machine screws (so they looked like rivets from the outside). You could do the same with long bolts, buy cutting the heads off; grinding the non-threaded "base" flat; and, then attach each bolt to the tray. Hooked bolts (as described by Jerry) were used from 1955 onwards (J-bolts). Or, replace the whole battery-tray assembly (which includes the bolts). Tim | | | | | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 769 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 769 | Thanks for the comments.
Lonnie | | | | | Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats | | Grumpy old guy playing with trucks, cars, and boats Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,859 | Deka makes a variety of battery hold down bolts. These are available at any of the FLAPS or online http://www.northernautoparts.com/ProductDetail.cfm?ProductId=2853Otherwise a welder, some rod stock and the tap and die set. Scott
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