I painted and installed a new Moss battery box. As you can see in the picture, the old box's floor was completely gone. I had to drill out the spot welds to remove the old box. I also decided not to replace the upper portion of the box, where the body tag resides, that material was fine and would involve a lot more work to replace it. So I cut off both the old box and new box in such a way to give me a 1/4 inch overlap between the two. I also don't have a welder and not sure I want to learn, so I bought some automotive adhesive used to join body panels (Evercoat's Maxim 812, two part, comes in tube for caulking gun with special replaceable nozzle that mixes the two parts). Kind of expensive at $40, but I used about 10% of it for the battery box. Now considering using it to install the floor panels. I am very pleased with how it turned out, had to spend some time making sure the flanges lined up well before gluing it in but the joints sure look solid. I hope I never have to take it back out!
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