Any tips on how to mount the battery tray in an XB8?

[bdebde]

Originally Posted by fkadir

So you just glue the spacer and battery mount together? Dat would eliminate screws protruding into the battery tray..

I use really short flathead screws, a few into bottom of spacer and a few in top through the battery tray, countersunk so the heads are smooth with the inside of the battery tray. Then I throw little thin padding in there to cover them up.

[VintageMA]

Do exactly what bdebde said - short screws, up from the bottom into the spacer and then down through the tray into the spacer.

Take a look at how I mounted the tray from Mike on my XB8 and it will make a little more sense:

http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/atta...9&d=1201098916

You will have to cut about a 1/2" wide piece lengthwise from the plastic spacer piece Mike provides with the tray.

[VintageMA]

Actually as a second note:

I had a bunch of xray screws left over from the nitro parts of the kit that weren't installed and I used those to mount the spacer and tray. Try to use the pre-drilled and coutnersunk holes already in the bottom frame of the buggy where the engine and the gas tanke would've been mounted - much cleaning this way.