Thread: Tearing out the wood along bottom of body, what did you use for body mount?

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Finally broke ground on the 27 sedan studebaker and see they used wood along the entire bottom of the body, I've ripped out all the wood and would like to replace with body mounts. but if I go that route I'll have huge gaps frmo where the mount has picked up the body. But if the body sits flat on the frame with no mounts the doors will not open I'd have to shave some metal off the bottoms of them.... Any of you run into this problem on your build up I'd love to hear how you went about doing it... thanks..

Mike..

Sounds like you have to replace the wood with something - new wood ? Never strip something out unless you have a plan for replacing it. I would gather up the pieces and measure them to find out what size you need to replace

I hear you on the dont pull it till you got something in mind. During transport on the trailer it pretty much desintegrated all but a few pieces of the wood under the body. Well I think I'm going to go with the poly-urethane mount. I just need a really thin one lol,,, I'll figure something out, if anyone has an idea please feel free to type it...


Mike...

i have built floors for older cars i have used square 3/4 steel tube and 1 by 1 tube and hook in to the door opening frame if its is not wood .then make a floor frame for seats and put in cross braces and tie this to the bottom of fire wall add steel 3/16 were the body mounts use to be make sure you are tied in good to you square steel floor frame so it is solid .on the mount i have used 1/4 flat belt for mounts. if there is no steel to hook in to try to grab as much body steel were the skin was nailed to the wood and make the frame with square tube and weld it to skin i would plug weld . 5/16 drill is a good size for the hole for the plugs. and if the door opening are wood and in good shape you can hook into you new floor by making spots to screw the old door frames to it. when frame is done i use weld thru primer and plug weld a skin to the floor frame i use 18 ga but you will have to get the body back in shape before you start and tack steel tube in to keep car square if not done doors will not open rigth. before you start make sure the door hinges are good before you start so the doors fit in the openings