Rust Bucket repair, left front inner fender

[Roy in Jax]

Well decided to tackle the left front fender in the engine compartment on my Nissan Sunrader. There was a little rust covering my battery tray and I decided to remove tray and patch what ever rust was under the tray.

The battery tray was spot welded to the inner fender, had to grind and chisel welds off. I used a grinder on the rust then primed the affected area and patched holes with sheetmetal.

Painted inner fender white and built new battery tray out of aluminum and attached a plastic holddown tray on top of the aluminum.

I used stainless hardware to attach to inner fender. Hope to get a few more years out of this fender.

Roy in Jax Nissan Sunrader

[Derek up North]

Mild steel, stainless steel and aluminum. Too many dissimilar metals for my liking (galvanic corrosion). I'd have made the tray out of mild steel and used steel (zinc plated/yellow chromate) fasteners instead.

But it looks very nicely done.