Joined: Mar 22, 2017 Posts: 301 Location: Great Mills, MD
Posted: Wed May 10, 2017 8:21 pm Post subject: M38A1 Battery Box Cover....Part 2
HI Guys,
I'm feeling kind of dumb here.....but I just figured out my battery box cover issue. Two of the eight cover screws weren't getting tight.....so I thought the captive nuts went away somehow. John at Midwest sold me some new nuts and I was futzing around with it tonight. Wes was also nice enough in another post to explain why my '55 A1 had a tub with the 8-screw battery cover when this feature was replaced by the strap cover 2 years earlier. I had not considered that the tub could have been changed.....but that makes sense and explained the old style cover.
Now I've never looked at the strap style cover in detail, but had I this issue would have been obvious. Tonight I finally climbed under the dash to see how the nuts for my cover screws were held in place.......and I found out that NONE of the 8 nuts for the cover screws were there!! There were just holes and no nuts. No cages for nuts, no spot weld marks.....nothing. WTF! Now when I got the jeep a few weeks ago I wondered why there were footman loops at each end of the cover. I just Google'd M38A1 Battery Cover and found the footman loops are for the strap cover.....not the 8 screw cover. Meaning my tub originally had the strap cover, which is correct for a '55.....but some previous bubba just drilled 8 holes in the cowl and screwed the old style cover on. Why would anyone do such a STUPID thing?
Now I've got to weld up those stupid holes, and the jeep had just recently been painted! I know folks do dumb things to jeeps......but this is just silly. But at least the cover mystery is solved.
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