Dual battery tray install problems.

[hidesertwheelin]

I took the dual battery tray off my 90 Suburban (drivers side, not original) and tried to install it on my 89 Suburban. The mounting holes are about a 1/2 to far apart on the 89. I welded the charcoal canister mount to this tray. If I use another tray, can just lower the charcoal canister using the factory mount?

 

[Carcinogen]

Pretty sure you can just loosen the clamp and slide it down.

 

[hidesertwheelin]

I just tried that, but the bracket and canister are still in the way. Are there 2 different driver side battery trays? One where the canister stays where it is and one where the canister mounts on the radiator support?

 

[Metrodps]

To dark here now. I will take pictures in daylight. I took the tray I bought from summit out of the 87 Blazer and put in the 88 burb. Had no problems. Never had to do any thing to canister on either truck. Post a pic of your tray.

 

[hidesertwheelin]

To dark here now. I will take pictures in daylight. I took the tray I bought from summit out of the 87 Blazer and put in the 88 burb. Had no problems. Never had to do any thing to canister on either truck. Post a pic of your tray.

I'll take some tomorrow when it's light outside.

 

[K85 Octane]

yeah, my canister is mounted with a ring that's mounted to the core support IIRC

I can't see why the two would interfere with each other

 

[hidesertwheelin]

yeah, my canister is mounted with a ring that's mounted to the core support IIRC

I can't see why the two would interfere with each other

Could you by chance snap a picture of it for me? I didn't see any mounting holes in my core support, but maybe I wasn't looking hard enough.

 

[Carcinogen]

here is a quick pic of mine(84), its mounted to the firewall:

http://i1314.photobucket.com/albums/t580/DennisFam83/84%20K10/evapcanister_zpsb2d5534a.jpg

And yes it needs reconnected...

 

[Irish1941]

I have dual trays in my '89.
There is a difference in driver's side trays from '88 to 89-91. It doesn't mount to the core support, goes below the battery tray. Holes are there. You need to drill one or two holes in the inner fender. You can see the dimples in the inner fender for the bolt hole.
The canister itself has to slide down in the ring. The upper canister mount goes behind the tray mount at the fender and they share the bolt.

Tray mount topside. See the circled bolts...center is the canister, right hand canister mount is behind the tray.
Left hand is tray mount by itself. As you see there was no welded nut in the fender for the left mount. I've haven't gotten around to the part yet.

And in fender well. If I remember right, the top one needed to be drilled out for sure and I think maybe I had to drill out a bottom. Either way the dimples are stamped in the fender well. It's like paint by numbers. Easy.

 

[Metrodps]

Here we go.....

The two yellow dots are about where the dimples are for bolt holes on inner fender. You have to drill them so the bolt goes through!

Where the tray top bolts go, these have nuts tacked to the holes from factory.

The bolt on the upper mount inner fender.

self explanatory.

Here is down looking view for location.

Here is my canister it is on the header (rad support)

Hope those help. I do have the 87 that I can take pictures of where it was. If you need them let me know and I will go to the low lands and get pictures.

 

[hidesertwheelin]

Well it turns out the top of the battery tray was bent. I used a set of vice grips and bent it back. The top holes lined up perfectly. All I had to do was drill out the lower mount hikes. Thanks for the help everyone.