bluejon
Club Member
Woo hoo .. first day this year out of the garage today and Hal is back on the road. It took me a new battery (ex Tayna) and a few minutes of puzzlement to get it fired up. Turns out the '80s alarm system, I think having detected the old battery was so flat it was like it had been disconnected, had decided to immobilise something. I was getting an odd tick-tock noise in the cabin different to the indicator pulse and no starter motor. Turned out easily rectified by locking/unlocking the car with the keyfob. And off we go.
Here's my question to this experienced crowd, with an eye to a pre-Japfest MOT. Securing the battery. It sits in what looks like an OEM/replica plastic tray, and I have an OEM clamp frame for the top, but no 'J' bolt. Everything moves around. Should the plastic tray usually be secured to the metal shelf underneath? If so how. Or is that the role of the 'J' bolt .. is that meant to hook under the metal shelf and bolt to the top frame holding the whole lot together?
Second question concerns the opposite side of the top frame, the rear with the upwards flange on it. It looks like it should have a fixing through it, but what to?
Does anyone have an OEM pic of how all this should fix, and anyone have a J bolt spare that could be purchased, before I start a search for aftermarket fixing
Here's my question to this experienced crowd, with an eye to a pre-Japfest MOT. Securing the battery. It sits in what looks like an OEM/replica plastic tray, and I have an OEM clamp frame for the top, but no 'J' bolt. Everything moves around. Should the plastic tray usually be secured to the metal shelf underneath? If so how. Or is that the role of the 'J' bolt .. is that meant to hook under the metal shelf and bolt to the top frame holding the whole lot together?
Second question concerns the opposite side of the top frame, the rear with the upwards flange on it. It looks like it should have a fixing through it, but what to?
Does anyone have an OEM pic of how all this should fix, and anyone have a J bolt spare that could be purchased, before I start a search for aftermarket fixing