help in removing battery tray

[leonwkew1]

Dear all fiesta owners
I need some help into removing the battery tray from my fiesta as i need to remove it to get to the starter motor as need replacing.
The item which is causing me a headache is the item circled in red.
I have removed the three bolts at the bottom of the tray and the top screw on the left but there is still somethink attach to the tray.
It looks like its attached to the item which i have circled in red but need help as cant see behind it.
Any help would be thanks

 

[Handy Andy]

I've attached some of my own photos I've taken for a previous thread - look for segue in the search box - it may help with this.

• - the battery tray itself has several things attached, you know the battery cables and starter - along with that Battery Junction Box, the one with that red cover, but your area you show - circles a cover that houses the PCM and uses several methods to hold it there while the bolts are applied to keep it on the side of the battery tray.
• The PCM will have to be removed from that box and left to dangle while you work on the battery tray.

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So you'll need to know - "stab tabs" are a type of fastener that you need to insert a tool or something in which to stretch out the fasteners ears in one direction - you press inward - which then by keeping it pressed in - the tabs ear sizes are reduced to let you lift the cover off. Then a bolt is used to fasten that cover to the PCM and the PCM itself together - and then the cover once all the cabling and the other pieces of the cover have been loosened - the cover then slides off and away from the PCM towards you and lifts away turns to your left once those grooves are cleared.

The Stab tab is on the PCM cover by the Red Post - is either a small diameter torx handle tool or a flat-blade screwdriver of similar shaft diameter and press into the hole to help stretch the ears to help lift the cover and pry up and to the left away from the tray.

Then remove the bolts that hold the cover to the PCM and tray.

Lift the cover off.

You should now be able to remove the battery pretty easily if you haven't already done so when you loosened and removed the hold-down bracket and the cables.

Then remove the rest of the bolts holding the PCM to the tray - the bolts the battery tray rest on are in the tray itself.