G'day all.
I'm fitting the battery into my van for the first time and I'm wondering where the earth is supposed to connected to the body.
Do I just bolt the earth to the battery support panel or is there a better way of doing this?
Is there meant to be a tray, and how's it meant to be anchored down?
I'm using a sealed battery so next to no chance of a leak I hope.
Some pic would be great guys!!
I've looked through all my mags but can't get a good pic of behind the seats.

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'72 English Van...'72 Export Moke ...63' 850...KZ 750E1...'74 P76

it was originally anchored by a strap that went around the battery, the remnants of mine are still there at either end, it looked like a stretchy fibre sort of thing... the earth went into the floor just beside the vertical support panel.

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did I tell you that I won a trophy?

My van had a folded metal strap like a Mini sedan uses. The hold-downs went throught this and down on a 45 degree angle to holes in the support behind the battery just off the floor. Same way the battery is secured in my Moke. The elastic strap just held on a cardboard cover. No tray was used, so I borrowed one from a Gemini at the wreckers.

I'm pretty sure the earth cable screwed into a captive nut in the centre support between the upper floor and the tunnel. But it was a few years ago, so my memory may be soggy.

In the end I used a slimline DIN53L battery and moved it back into the "dead space" under the upper load floor with a hatch for access. That way I could move the seat back a couple more inches.

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Brett Nicholson
Greendale (near Ballan) VIC.
1971 Morris Mini Moke
1966 Austin Mini
1965 Morris Mini Traveller
1973 LR Series 3 88
2007 LR Freelander 2

Thanks for the info guys.
I'll play around and see what I come up with.
Cheers.

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'72 English Van...'72 Export Moke ...63' 850...KZ 750E1...'74 P76