Body Mount Questions

CJ6 Body Mount Questions

Been looking at the body mount project...looks like just about every one is going to require some finagling.....

Anyway...a few questions. Check out this pic:



This is looking towards the front of the Jeep. The innermost crossmember (that has the muffler attached) has a rubber strip between it and the body.

In the gap between it and the next crossmember, is a rubber strip attached to the bottom of the body, with nothing around.

The next crossmember back has no rubber between it and the body, save for little pieces by the two bolts in the corners where the original drawbar attached.

#1 - When I install the body pucks, there's going to be a gap between that innermost crossmember and the body. Do I fill it?

Here's another pic of the "stranded" rubber strip:


#2 - What the heck was this for?

OK, further up where the floor height raises from the front to the back, under the front seats.



#3 - Does that look right?

Moving up again, this by the front of the tub, this pic from the passenger side:


I'm already figuring on some hat channel repair.

#4 - Do I make some kind of spacer so the hat channel still sits on top of the frame after the body puck raises the body up 5/8"?

 

In a nutshell I'd definitely brace or support the body as it was originally supported. Weird about the lone rubber strip underneath, and the one underneath the vertical part doesn't look right, but it's got rivets so must be factory.

 

Why?

 

The stranded rubber strip wouldn't have lined up to any 6 frame as there just isn't a crossmember there.

I'm thinking the little "L" bracket further up the body under the front seats is '6-specific (due to extra body length), and probably bent. If it were in there square it would look less odd.

Edit - here's a pic from another CJ6, the "L" bracket is visible:


Almost seems like it would be better to cut off the "L" bracket and just run a bolt through the frame, and use one of the thicker body pucks I have.

 

I am in the same boat as you Mike. After Tellico i realized i needed to mount the body better. I originally had the rubber strip on my jeep, but i tossed it years ago. And that forward most part of the frame should have a mount under it, but there is no way to "bolt" it down, the tub sort of holds it there, like mine did, until i shot out those bodt puchs on that damn trail 1 in tellico. I am going to make a few more mounts, and make the body stronger.

 

This is pretty much the way Dutch was too:



I'm thinking this setup works OK -- with the thickness of the rubber pads used originally, the hat channel just sits on the frame. Unless like Joe mentions the frame is twisted up.

What I worry about though is putting in the body puck, which will raise that body mount up and either create a gap between the hat channel and frame or allow the body to sag until they meet again.

I almost wonder if I should try to source a piece of urethane to somehow mount in there for the length of the hat channel? Maybe attached to the frame only?