Battery Boxes

[Powder Hounds]

Hello,

Just doing some general maintenance and discovered that our dual battery boxes were each being held in place with two very small metal self tapping screws. On one box both screws had rusted the heads completely off. Not sure if this was the original method they did things during manufacturing or at the dealership. Tried to use some CLR to remove all the rust that accumulated under the boxes but had to resort to some fine sandpaper to really clean up the rust stained frame.

Installed some stainless hardware to refasten the boxes and also drilled some drainage holes in the bottom of each box.

[Merlin]

Good catch! The original battery box on mine was also held on by 2 self-tapping screws, one of which was over-tightened and not doing much. I'm fairly certain the battery box is a dealer-installed item because the service tech at the selling dealer was just throwing away the packaging from that installation when I arrived to pick up my camper.

With the new dual battery box I installed, I used U-bolts all the way around the frame.