Thread: What is this? Curved metal in the battery bay of a Puma 110

Ohhh is that what that was, I bloody just threw mine out.

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Originally Posted by schuy1

Look on the bright side, with all the holes and daylight most of the water and dust will drain out again!! and then you can hose the rest later!

Haha true enough. That thought did cross my mind.

I have a holy defender!

Originally Posted by FeatherWeightDriver

I poked around in the battery bay again today, and damn there is a lot more room on the outer side than I first thought. Dual battery is on the to do list, but until then I filled up the rest of the space with a set of jumper leads, gloves, rubber mat and base plate (marine ply) for the jack.

Closer inspection of the standard wheel chock does not fill me with confidence per blknight's earlier post. Without bracing it can easily be squashed if incorrectly used. Might just toss it and replace it with wood / plastic blocks. Simple is good!

The jack has not been used in anger yet, but it will be interesting to see if a standard bottle jack (i.e. without the hook thingamy on top) works for jacking up the front axle.

In other news there are at least 4 different places I can see daylight though the bottom / side of the battery bay, mostly through grommets that don't even vaguely seal, so deep water crossings and excessive bulldust (I said dust! ) might not be a good idea until that gets sorted.

Two things...

First:

"The jack has not been used in anger yet"... GOLD QUOTE!,

Second:

God that engine bay looks so nice and clean compared to my 68 IIA!

Cheers,

Tim

your not alone there I had no idea as well. cant really see it doing the job as a wheel chok..thought it was just another piece of the defender they forgot to bolt somewhere else , and threw it in the battery box at knock off time on a friday arvo.

Originally Posted by Babs

Ohhh is that what that was, I bloody just threw mine out.

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Chock for the wheels?

Originally Posted by Ontdekker

Chock for the wheels?

It's just all about safety really.

Your supposed to chock a wheel when jacking up the car