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Keith
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 Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 4:51 pm Post subject: under hood battry box? |
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On a 9/51 M38, was the under hood battery box coated with the tar spray like the battery box under the windshield?
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hillbilly21
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| Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 6:33 pm Post subject: box |
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NONE that I ever ran across ..  BUBBA did it !! |
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kenperkins
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 1:19 am Post subject: |
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well, have 3 all coated....inside
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Bill_F
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 7:45 am Post subject: |
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| Mine is coated inside as well. |
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Jim
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 8:38 am Post subject: |
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Neither of mine are. The vehicle came from an
Indian Technical School in Oklahoma and was
pristine (ex works) with very low milage.
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wesk
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skyjeep50
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| Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 11:48 am Post subject: |
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My M38 was pretty much original when I got it, it also had a black coating on the battery boxes.
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wesk
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TomM
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 7:41 am Post subject: battery box |
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Both my underhood and cowl battery boxes were coated with a black mung that had to be removed off by heating with a torch.
The outsides are now painted and the insides are coated with a urethane bedliner material to try to hold back corrosion. In 50 years someone may curse me because that stuff is going to be hard to remove.
I am unsure what is "correct".
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OKCM38CDN
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Botht the Battery boxes in my jeep are recycled from other jeeps, they both were coated with roofing tar and I left them that way... They seem to hold up better.
I am willing to bet somewhere along the line that the military coated them to save on maintenace...
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ECVJeeps
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| Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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Like Wes stated, be careful, what you think is original to an old jeep; this just may be an early "bubba" mod.
My M38 was originally blue, however I have been told different by different people, even though they were not standing in front of the jeep.
My battery box, (cowl) was blue inside with no coating of any kind. The under hood box was missing like most M38's. I have seen the tar covering on different M38 as I have restored a number of them, but I could not say that they came from the factory that way.
Some M38’s have had the entire battery box inside covered and some have had only the actual tray covered. I know that the tar type coating was very easy to get by anyone. I expect that “bubba” could very easily have done this mod or for that matter even a military person working on these jeeps for the military thinking that they were improving the situation.
What you find today is not necessarily what was released from the factory.
BTW, this is not a bad modification as it is easily reversed with no damage.
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