Roxanne: 1985 Cj-7

[DRAGOONRANCH]

Your oil quarts are in there backward.

I think your quart bottles are in backwards

Hey Pete, meet RePete!

[85cj7]

I've never been happy with the stock battery tray. It was bulky, ugly, and required a bungee cord to keep the battery in place. I replaced it with a generic 11" racing tray from A&M Manufacturing. I also took the time to patch all the holes in the firewall.

[TexTJ209]

Did you do any kind of reinforcement on the other side of the firewall?

I've been looking at battery trays since mine is pretty crispy. I was leaning towards the Tomken dual tray, as CJ specific options have really dried up in the past few years..

[85cj7]

Did you do any kind of reinforcement on the other side of the firewall?

I've been looking at battery trays since mine is pretty crispy. I was leaning towards the Tomken dual tray, as CJ specific options have really dried up in the past few years..

Two of the four bolts use the stock mounting locations for the battery tray which have a reinforcement plate on the inside of the firewall. The other two bolts I welded fender washers to the engine side of the firewall to double the wall thickness of the firewall and used fender washers on the inside of the firewall as well. You can see one in the photo above. It is the upper mount on the left-hand (pass.) side.

It was nearly impossible to find a battery tray for a regular battery. All the jeep fab battery trays are specific to Optima or Olympus batteries and I don't run one of those.

This is the one I used. The battery hold down is janky (I'll make my own) and I had to modify the mounting points but it was still a good starting point, especially for the price.
https://www.aa-mfg.com/battery-box

[TexTJ209]

Cool, looks good man! And yeah, like I said the CJ market is pretty bare bones on battery trays these days...

And of course this is my CJ currently so it'll be a while before I need a battery tray. haha

[robertf03]

is a yj not the same as a cj battery tray? maybe the fender support brace is a different length, but the firewall is basically the same piece

[TexTJ209]

Most battery trays I see are listed as 76-90 CJ/YJ.

[robertf03]

i know the floorpan got big changes around 91, didnt think the firewall was that different

[colman]

where did you get your cowl protection?

[85cj7]

where did you get your cowl protection?

I think it was these guys......http://moab-4x4.com/.......but it looks like their web-store is down.

[85cj7]

Wheeled in Bridgeport on Saturday. Got a bit tippy at one point.





No real damage done but it was close to being a really bad roll.

[KrazyKarl02]

That's a sticky situation...

[Sharpe]

Stay running?

[85cj7]

For a little while.

It started right back up once upright.

[JB]

Damn!