Tmo · Oct 15, 2013

Hello everyone, I'm hoping you can help me I have had to do a bit of welding on the battery box for the MOT and by the time I cut the rust off there was nothing left!

Went to mr Gott and bought a replacement for around £40.00 bargain but as I cut most of the old one out, offering the new one up doesn't seem very easy to install.

Can anybody shed any light on the process to get it in hoping seat box stays where it is???

Thanks
Josh

Tmo · Oct 17, 2013

Anybody able to help at all?

trax · Oct 17, 2013

Tmo said:
Anybody able to help at all?

it's a bit vague isn't it. how do we know how much you've cut away..

take some pics and you might get an answer

lee3022 · Oct 18, 2013

Fitted a new battery on mine for the winter and found my battery box to be fibre glass haha, needs replacing but found replacements expensive, £40 is really good.

200tdi ayre · Oct 18, 2013

I made all the panels for mine to fix it was quite a pain especially with odd corners to weld, it's not that bad though when you get into it

lee3022 · Oct 18, 2013

200tdi ayre said:
I made all the panels for mine to fix it was quite a pain especially with odd corners to weld, it's not that bad though when you get into it

Can you do mine

200tdi ayre · Oct 18, 2013

lee3022 said:
Can you do mine

I had the seat box right off when I did it which made it easier to weld but harder to keep everything straight

Erm let me think about that ...

lee3022 · Oct 18, 2013

200tdi ayre said:
I had the seat box right off when I did it which made it easier to weld but harder to keep everything straight

Erm let me think about that ...

Haha, well I'd be afraid taking my seat box out might involve replacing that too, you sure?

mikeh501 · Oct 18, 2013

got a replacement from YRM. nicely put together but different shape to standard.

200tdi ayre · Oct 18, 2013

lee3022 said:
Haha, well I'd be afraid taking my seat box out might involve replacing that too, you sure?

I was doing a ground up rebuild so it was off anyway

it's quite exposed and so wouldn't be too hard to repair on the vehicle

Litch · Oct 18, 2013

Did mine earlier this year but the seatbox was off at the time so removing & refitting was a breeze, just drilling & pop-riveting with some Butyl sealant between the joints. I should imagine it will be fun fitting a complete battery-box with the seatbox in place as it is very bulky.
I was going to buy a brand-new galvanised battery-box from L&G Services (about £75 inc) but after I had removed mine I found it was actually perfectly sound so I had it galvanised and re-fitted it.

As returned.

After fitting with one coat of underseal.

Tmo · Oct 18, 2013

Cheers guys I think I'm gonna have to take the seat box off something I really didn't wanna do! Oh well!

If you contact Keith Gott land rovers I paid £42.00 plus VAT for a complete brand new unit off the shelf.

potus · Oct 18, 2013

Just about to do this job on mine, seat box is off so hopefully straight forward. Do you have a photo of your battery box? for that price if it looks okay think I'll order one rather than try to knock something up..

Tmo · Oct 18, 2013

Yea I'll take some pics and post them up! Seat box is half off but quite rotten it seems to fix one small hole in the batt box I need to replace batt box, rear outrigger and seat box! Bottomless money pit is quite fitting description!!

Tmo · Oct 20, 2013

This is the replacement batt box I got from Keith Gott.

Now it looks like this thanks to the battery box

potus · Oct 20, 2013

looks ideal, thanks for the photos. I see you have recently replaced the fuel tank too!

Tmo · Oct 20, 2013

Yea it seems I get to each part and end up replacing highly expensive but highly infectious!!

Might have replaced everything one day!!! I'm gonna underseal all of it whilst the seat box is off then move to the next part and so it goes on!!

potus · Oct 26, 2013

Thanks Tmo for the heads up on the battery box, ordered one yesterday.

Old fuel tank out, chassis painted around tank area and new one ready to go in....loads more to do yet though.

marty90 · Oct 11, 2014

I went for the YRM aluminium replacement as I did'nt fancy removing the seat box! It fitted nicely and cost £100 with delivery and rivets.

GATSO · Oct 12, 2014

nice ,,,,dont for get that screw driver matey ,,,,,lol

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