Valkster
02-01-2025, 07:41 PM
Good evening. My son and I are working through the body fitment, panel gapping, etc. I just received the rubber grommets from Metro for the front end to do the floating, or pass-through, approach for the nose. I have also added the rubber pads under the front of the nose, where the outriggers start downward, and have moved the outriggers to get my body centered left-to-right. I have some solid stainless round bar in my workshop, and a lathe, and I am thinking about simply tapping both ends of 4 bars of a specific length and then polish them. Then I would bolt the bumper to one end of the bars, and bolt the other ends to the outriggers, passing through the rubber grommets along the way.
I have two questions about this. First, does anyone see an issue with this method? Second question is what is the proper length(s) for the tubing/rods? This question would be the same whether I use tapped solid bars or used 3/4" tubing over the existing long bolts that many people have done. I am sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find the desired length on past posts. I found an old post from Jeff Kleiner (from 9/15/2012) where he explained to someone the varying lengths of the two-piece tubes offered then. We unfortunately did not keep the two-piece tubes together as matched sets for each of the four mounting spots, so I do not know what the total lengths of each set were when we received then kit. Also, I am confused why they would have made them different lengths (??). If I add the lengths that Jeff had provided back then, the total tube length at each location ranged from 5-3/8" to 5-3/4". I assume I would need to add for the thickness of the fiberglass body, and for the washers used in the original setup to get a length(s) for a pass-through type of setup. Is there a need for the new rods/tubes to be of various length, or would it be alright to make then all the same length of ?? inches?
Thanks for any insight and input,
Mark
I have two questions about this. First, does anyone see an issue with this method? Second question is what is the proper length(s) for the tubing/rods? This question would be the same whether I use tapped solid bars or used 3/4" tubing over the existing long bolts that many people have done. I am sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find the desired length on past posts. I found an old post from Jeff Kleiner (from 9/15/2012) where he explained to someone the varying lengths of the two-piece tubes offered then. We unfortunately did not keep the two-piece tubes together as matched sets for each of the four mounting spots, so I do not know what the total lengths of each set were when we received then kit. Also, I am confused why they would have made them different lengths (??). If I add the lengths that Jeff had provided back then, the total tube length at each location ranged from 5-3/8" to 5-3/4". I assume I would need to add for the thickness of the fiberglass body, and for the washers used in the original setup to get a length(s) for a pass-through type of setup. Is there a need for the new rods/tubes to be of various length, or would it be alright to make then all the same length of ?? inches?
Thanks for any insight and input,
Mark