Battery hold down help

I've got kind of a weird question.....

On my '54 NAA, the battery hold down connects with a long rod to the battery tray on the right side of the tractor, and a short rod connects the hold down to the air cleaner side of the tray.

But with my '57 860, there is no hole for a short rod on the air cleaner side of the battery tray. Can anyone tell me or show me a picture that shows what type of hold down I should be using and how it attaches?

Thanks!

Jeff
 
Do you maybe have a replacement battery tray?
My 960 and Jubilee both have holes for the short bolt.
If mine are original. Can't say for sure.
 
Can anyone tell me or show me a picture that shows what type of hold down I should be using and how it attaches?

Not sure if this helps or not but pix shows left side of Dennis Carpenter offering for tractors built 1953-1964.

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Believe it or not, in equipment that isn't subject to severe bouncing, I let gravity hold my batteries down. It has saved me some grief over time as the hold down bolts tend to get rusty and the nuts cannot be removed when I need to change batteries.
 
(quoted from post at 06:34:10 08/17/18) Believe it or not, in equipment that isn't subject to severe bouncing, I let gravity hold my batteries down. It has saved me some grief over time as the hold down bolts tend to get rusty and the nuts cannot be removed when I need to change batteries.

You never know when you're going to encounter a rough spot in the terrain, even on a piece of land that you've driven over a thousand times. A gopher or a groundhog could have dug a hole, or a recent rain might have eroded something, and you could find yourself in a situation where the battery bounces and the hot post shorts against something and the engine dies just when you need it the most. Been there, done that.

I use anti-sieze on pretty much every nut and bolt that I touch on my outdoor equipment these days, and I put dielectric grease on every exposed piece of metal anywhere near the battery, so hopefully I don't have any issues with nuts being rusted in place.
 
Agreed, Sean.

In the mid 19702, my Father owned an 8n that he and I used to operate a 5' rotary cutter.

The battery was, at the time held in place by a couple of loops of clothes line rope.

I had recently filled the fuel tank and was mowing on a hill side when the engine suddenly quit. The clothes line rope had suddenly failed and the battery had slid such that the negative terminal had shorted to the fuel tank support, close to where fuel had been slobbering out of the OEM filler cap. Realizing what had happened, I jumped off, expecting the tractor to erupt in flames within seconds.

Turns out, I was lucky. The dead short caused parts of the negative terminal and lead negative battery cable terminal to melt, opening the circuit. Very lucky, indeed.

Since, then, all of my tractors have had proper battery trays and hold downs.

Dean
 
My battery tray looks just like the one in Dollar Bill's post. (Except a lot more rust......) There is a hole in the side to connect the air cleaner, but no hole in the top to connect the battery hold down.

So is there a different style of hold down that gets used.....?

Thanks again!
Jeff
 
Short holddown (J-bolt) should hook into the side-hole of the
protrusion that provides the air cleaner mount hole.

<img src = https://s19.postimg.cc/vrwdkbdsz/Short_Batt_Holddown.jpg>
 
The left-side hold-down for the original tractor (6V) is part number
NCA10728A. It's available from Messicks, Amazon, Dennis Carpenter,
etc. I've included a link so you know what it looks like. It's
more of a S-hook than a J-hook as I originally said. If you've
converted to 12V you'll have to pay attention to battery dimensions
and get one that fits. This site (YT Mag) has generics that may
work.
Battery Clamp Hold Down, Amazon
 
If you run out of ideas, I just hold mine down with an appropriate length black, solid rubber, Bungie cord. Hook just hooks over the edge of the battery pan.
Has been that way for as long as I can remember on the 2000.
 

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