We're getting ready to make the floor/toe boards for our 30 Chevy out of marine plywood. We need to make accesses for the battery and the master cylinder. Anyone have any suggestion or pics of how they did theirs? Ours will be covered by carpet but I want to make something that is tight and rattle free. What's a good way of securing them but still make it relatively easy to access. The carpet will be able to be pulled back.
Here's a pic of the real estate I need to cover. Battery box on p***enger side and MC on the drivers.
Hey, who you calling S.? I may end up using a piano hinge but recess it. I need to cruise down to the big blue or orange store and check out the cabinet hardware.
They make drop-down battery boxes, or you could make your own. Then make a small floor tin for the MC.
Anyway to use the battery door off an AD Chevy truck? You'd just have to router the edges to make it set flush.
Rather than underneath, I hid my (sealed) Odyssey battery under the seat riser in my 35 Chevy and on the floor. All I have is small bubble plate to access M/C on other side
We're reusing the battery mount that the previous owner had made. It was already there and pretty well made.
I divided up my 'real estate' by adding "L" channel steel. Then I added shorter pieces where I needed "back to back" channel (like upside down 'T' channel / forward of the shifter). I secure my wood floor using 1/4" hex head, self tapping, stainless steel screws.
easiest/cheapest, is to screw a plate of sheetmetal, bigger than the cut out, to the top of the piece you cut out. nail a piece of frame welting to the edge and drop it in place. drop it back in the hole, done, it won't fall up.
If you are cutting the holes with a jigsaw , just set the blade at 10 * and cut, then it drops in and can't fall out.
This is exactly what I did for my battery cover. Added a couple small screws at the edges to keep the air from under the car pushing it up. Has worked for many years.
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