Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Sure. Basically I just welded 6 pieces of flat stock to the top of the frame rails and drilled and tapped them for 3/8 threads. Then I drilled corresponding holes into the plywood floor so I could pass 3/8 bolts down through into the frame. I am going to put rubber washers that I bought at the hardware store between the body and frame to insulate and quiet it a little.

On my Son's T, Total Performance does something that I do not understand. They actually use those rubber expander plugs that you slip into four holes in the frame, and when you run bolts into them they expand and hold the body down. I really didn't like the idea of the whole body being secured by four little rubber plugs, so we drilled and tapped his frame like mine in 6 places (3 per side down the length of the body) and will bolt it down just like mine.

Maybe these pictures will shed some light on how we did it, and as you have asked, I'll post some pictures when the body goes on for the last time. On the gray frame pictured, you can see the 6 little steel pads welded atop the frame rails behind the steering box mount. On the green frame, you can sort of make out the same 6 holes drilled and tapped into the top of his frame. That is where the bolts go to hold the body down.

Don