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Re: 48 Burb, bagged, 5.3, 20 year wait
Fabricated body mounts for each side from some 2" wide steel stock inside and on the bottom of the cross channel piece, plug welded the flat steel pieces to the cross channel after locating the body mount hole in the cross channel piece. Maybe should have gone the full width with the flat steel.
After the pieces were welded together we drilled a 3/4 hole through them for the anti crush pipe installation. The 3/4 " pipe runs from the bottom of the body mount to under the cross channel top plate. Of course this keeps the body bolt from crushing into the floor.
Used a piece of 2" box steel for the drop (replacing the wood 2x4 that was there when I cut the wood floor out), then plated the bottom of the 2" box with some 0.250" flat with a hole of course for the body bolt. Left enough space for a rubber truck mud flap body mount.
Doing all the measuring, cutting, accurate drilling (ok mostly accurate) takes some time and everything lined up when we were done.
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