Posted by Chris Case [107.201.30.23] on Saturday, September 06, 2014 at 13:48:59 :
Some folks thought the red ones were kind of 'Bling', so I did a batch in black.
And improved a bit by going to a heavy top washer welded to the steel sleeve. And throw in a radiator support pad and a handful of fender washers for use as shims. (One hall mark of a good resto is that body components are shimmed to get the body parts to line up with each other. Hood to cab, hood to nose)
Includes grade 8 bolts and nuts.
These mounts are made 1/4" taller, to isolate the body from the frame. This makes the truck much quieter by preventing the telgraphing of drive line noise to the cab, which then acts as a megaphone.
Plus being a softer grade of Polyurethane, and taller, they ought to prevent some of the cab fatigue that these old trucks suffer. And the urethane should last a lot longer before hardening up like the generic rubber ones do.
My standard set uses the same soft parts at all four points. The factory pretty much solidly mounted the drivers front corner, transmitting noise and contributing to body fatigue. Their apparent reasoning was to prevent motion at the clutch and brake pedals to prevent binding in rough off road situations. But every truck I've ever worked on had wear at the floor/pedal joint, showing that they might as well have isolated better, they did not prevent contact there.
My dimensions are for the later trucks, not the WDX that used wooden blocks and springs. Get with me if you would like something for those, they ought to gain the same improvements or better. I just need to make a different dimension.
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