TR2/3/3A Parts question TR3A post 60,000 series

[Tinkerman]

I found, in my parts supply, a package labled: rubber pad, battery shelf, #602945. There are 4 of them. I saw the number in the parts catalogue but, don't know where they are supposed to go. I can use them as a spacer between the plastic battery box and the firewall but, I was wondering, what the primary use for them is?

Your thoughts and comments, as always, greatly appreciated.

Tinkerman

 

[mrv8q]

Dick, I think they are used in place of the plastic AMCO box liner, I think.....

 

[martx-5]

They go underneath the battery. They were put there so the battery doesn't lie directly on the sheet metal.

 

[Tinkerman]

Thanks fellows, fast answers. Kinda suspected thats where they went. Have a plastic battery liner so will repurpose them.

Thanks, Dick

 

[Don Elliott]

22 years ago as I was finishing the restoration of my 1958 TR3A, I re-set the voltage regulator. In its previous life (80,300 miles), it had been adjusted too high and it was spitting acid out the vents in the caps from 1958 to 1972 while I stored the TR till 1987. Needless to say, I had to change the battery box (amongst lots of other things).

With the regulator set to the correct output specifications, I have never had any need for a black AMCO battery box. The various batteries I have had during the 109,000 miles since 1990 have not spit, although for a while I had fabricated a removable cover over the battery and used it just in case. But I never needed it and removed it about 7 years ago, just before this photo taken in 2007. It still looks the same today.

Under the battery are the 4 original black rubber pads stacked 2 high on each side of the drain hole under the battery.

BTW, that's one of Frank's brass number tags you see. With the black AMCO battery box, you can't see the brass tag because it's hidden behind the top flange of the AMCO box.

 

[CJD]

I solved my "spitting" problems when I quit topping the water level to the max. I only fill about halfway from the plates to the cap holder.

I went ahead and used the rubber inserts under the plastic liner box, since, like you, I had them anyway. They should keep water from sitting between the plastic box and the sheet metal.

John