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Wedge tr8 battery strap

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aaarg, changing the battery today i broke the leather strap
that goe's across the top of the battery,
any idea's on a source?
thanks tom
 
i'll have to figure out how to post a picture,
it run's across the top of the metal plate that is on top of the battery.
 
sabot said:
i'll have to figure out how to post a picture,
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Easiest, IMO, is to set up an account at
https://photobucket.com/
(or any of the other various photo sharing sites)
then post a link here.

Nylon will hold up better than leather around a battery, so I'd check out the local surplus store for some woven nylon strap. Mine sells it for about $.25/foot, cut to length; cheaper if you buy the whole roll.
 
talked with the p.o. last night,
yep it's not leather,
it was a 1/4inch wide rubber that dry rotted so bad that it looked like leather, and he did confrim it was suppose to be there,
the car came with a rubber but not a box,
tom
 
Coupes had a black plastic (ABS?) battery box. Verts had a steel tray and a metal hold down. The rubber straps you refer to are probably the straps used to hold down the spare tire and jack in the spare tire well; not battery hold downs. The vert metal hold down also had a button riveted to the top so that the trunk mat could fold up and over the battery and snap firmly to the top of the hold down.
 
The strap was used on only a few cars. What purpose it serves I have no idea unless it was to help hold down the original Lucas battery vent cap(s)? It has a hook on the other end for removal.

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I never realized the drop heads and fixed heads had different battery boxes
 
When TR8 coupes were actually called TR7V8s and as they were being submitted for FIA Group 4 Rally homologation papers and all 116 prototypes had to have some production parts that were to be used for racing so the battery box was in! This is the first Homologated TR7V8 Rally car OOM512R to be used in competition.
RallyTR7V8OOM512R_5-1.jpg
 
Michael,
you get a bingo on the picture of the strap.
i know it's not really needed anymore,
but i'll have to figure a replacement out.
tom
 
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