Gareth Davies Posted February 20, 2022 Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 When mounting the body back onto the chassis what is the normal practice for the position of the rubber and c- Aluminium spacers i.e. Rubber to chassis or to body. Does it matter? In some line diagrams on line I have seen rubber washers shown on either side of c washer. does it make any sense to glue any of the rubber washers to chassis to keep them in position when mounting the body? can anybody give me some ideas on what is best practice? thanks Gareth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bfg Posted February 20, 2022 Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 (edited) I recently put the car's body back onto my chassis and used reinforced-rubber on either side of any spacer. I feel the rubber serves as gaskets to help prevent road spray / moisture ingress into the car's interior, and otherwise they accommodates any irregularity in surface and angle of either the floor or chassis bracket. I've also added reinforced-rubber gaskets on the inside of the body tub, under the body washers ..for the same reasons. Pete. Edited February 20, 2022 by Bfg Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Malbaby Posted February 20, 2022 Report Share Posted February 20, 2022 Has anyone used high density plastic/nylon sheet instead of the rubber and metal combination. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stuart Posted February 21, 2022 Report Share Posted February 21, 2022 13 hours ago, Malbaby said: Has anyone used high density plastic/nylon sheet instead of the rubber and metal combination. No as there would be no insulation from noise. Stuart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stuart Posted February 21, 2022 Report Share Posted February 21, 2022 17 hours ago, Gareth Davies said: When mounting the body back onto the chassis what is the normal practice for the position of the rubber and c- Aluminium spacers i.e. Rubber to chassis or to body. Does it matter? In some line diagrams on line I have seen rubber washers shown on either side of c washer. does it make any sense to glue any of the rubber washers to chassis to keep them in position when mounting the body? can anybody give me some ideas on what is best practice? thanks Gareth Generally where there is an ally washer then you need rubber both sides, sometimes thats not possible if its too thick so you can either mill the ally washer down a bit or remove the rubber from chassis side. The only exception seems to be the parcel shelf mount for the spring bridge on 5 and 6 chassis where originally there was just the one ally washer. Yes good idea to glue the mounts in place to help when fitting the body, the factory did that too. Stuart. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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