Hello! Have a new question on my daughter's 2001 F150, specifically the battery hold down clamp. Right now her truck battery is a bit loose and when we looked at the battery hold down clamp, nothing was holding it in position. There is a long bolt that screws into & through the black plastic clamp, and on the other side of the black plastic clamp there appears to be a flat nut/washer so that the bolt doesn't come completely out of the black plastic clamp. The problem is that I don't see anything where the long end of the bolt is supposed to screw into. My guess is there was some kind of nut (u-clip or flat speed nut?) mounted on the actual battery tray so the battery clamp bolt could screw into it, but there isn't anything there now but a hole. I was thinking of installing a rivet-nut/nut-sert in the hole in the battery tray, so the battery clamp bolt has something to screw into, but I thought i would ask here to see if you folks could enlighten me on what should be there. Perhaps it would be easier to replace what was there versus putting in the nut-sert/rivert-nut? My car battery has a clamp that tightens across the top of the car battery so this is a bit foreign to me.

 

you are correct there should be SOMETHING there...need a ford body book to see if it is a J-clip or whatever

 

its a special shaped clip(block of metal), its half moon on the top to allow for some articulation when loose. I'd go hit the local junk yard and grab one before I try and try and improvise something