Odd place for a brake fluid reservoir

[Forever_frost]

I was digging around on my DJ5 and was looking for the brake fluid reservoir. Anyone ever see one buried under the battery, attached to the frame?

[Sleeper]

Its a heep thing.

[YALE]

Yeah man. A ton of cars back in the day had them on the frame rails. 32 Fords are another example.

[Forever_frost]

IT took me almost half an hour to hunt it down because I'd never seen anything like it. I have no idea how I'm going to get to it to check it and top it up. Solutions? To get to it, I can either climb into the engine compartment and wedge my hand under the battery and through the rest of it or I can go under it and around the frame.

[talisman]

Be glad you don't have a '51 Ford and have to cut a hole in the floorboard next to the brake pedal.

[Bigcountry]

Relocate the battery?

[Big A]

Ironic that you used an "oddly" placed photo to gripe about an oddly placed reservoir.

[Forever_frost]

Be glad you don't have a '51 Ford and have to cut a hole in the floorboard next to the brake pedal.

Really? They put them under the floorboard?

[fitzwell]

Really? They put them under the floorboard?

M/C on the 46 was under the floor. Had an access door to check it.

[sdun]

The pedals hinge at the bottom on those cars.

[Forever_frost]

Did no one stop to think, during the design, "How is maintenance going to be done on this?"

[LANTIRN]

Did no one stop to think, during the design, "How is maintenance going to be done on this?"

No.

[91CoupeMike]

Why top off the brake fluid? Have a leak? Old busted ass brake pads?

[Baba Ganoush]

Really? They put them under the floorboard?

Best place for a resivoir, if you asked me. That means the pedal assembly is frame-mounted, and your firewall is not flexing.

I still can't figure yours out, and I'm good at this. I need more pictures.

[Scott Mc]

The pic looks odd cause I assume the Heap is right hand drive.