garbz,you dont by chance hace the size dimintions for those patterns you made do you? i am a machinest and have water jets i could cut these out and also i operate a brake press at work would be an easy task if i had some sizes. they wont let me e-mail you cause i havnt been a member here long enough..Thanks..Tom

 

also did you make them fit over the old ones?

 

Tom

I made the mounts to replace the complete stock units for each side.

How bad are the mounts on your truck? is the rubber puck area just rotted out or is the whole thing toast. I personally would not cover up the rusted mount as it will just cause problems down the line. I removed the complete mounts with a Blair Spotweld cutter and the trusty sawzall and replaced everything including the lower 1' of the kick panels, floor boards, outer lower A posts and the lower hinge pockets on the crew cab. Took me a good bit of fab and welding time but she is as good as Henry intended and will out live me.

I can trace the three piece pattern on to a sheet of paper and mail it to you. just shoot me an e mail with an addy and give me a week or so to get it out to you.

Wow a water jet to play with... i only get to play with plasma occasoinally on vicon or lockformer fab table.. I like to think that i made the mounts with stone knives and bearskins as all i used were my Klenk snips, double cutters and two pieces of angle iron viced gripped together. I could have used a brake but that was too easy...

 

GARBZ,

You Sly ol' Fox,. . . . . . . You mean to tell me you kept, still have & still use your "BRONSON ROCK" ?

No wonder you can do such good work, so often, so well. Hah !

I thought I was the only one with a Bronson Rock left in my tool bucket, and here you go havin' one too. . . . I shoulda known.

Anybody who's wonderin' what a Bronson Rock is. . . . There was a TV Show a while back called " Then Came Bronson " about a good samaratin who rode all over the country on his HD (really an AMC) Sportster doing good deeds and saving the world and getting people out of trouble etc etc. . .

Every week something terrible would happen to him (Bronson) like somebody would run him over a cliff, or his scooter got hit by a train, or run over by a semi, or such. Miraculously, without any regognizable tools or equipment Bronson would rebuild, repair or fix his wrecked [as in totally trashed & mangled] bike, somehow & next thing we knew he's back on the road carrying out a mission of miraculous mercy or benevolence on a HD that just couldn't be.

We attributed his mechanical skill & special prowess to owning the original Bronson Rock which we never got to see. Anyhow 1st chance I had to get my own Bronson Rock I did. It looks like Dave did too! They impart incredible knowledge & skill to their owners, right Garbz? I mean it seems like Bronson Rock Owners all but work miracles with machinery & metals that baffle common man.
Or so it would seem. ymurf has leading edge in equipment at his disposal, but I bet it can't keep up with a Bronson Rock, huh ?

Just a little humor guys, I'm envious of shops having leading edge equipment & ability to fabricate just about anything anyone can conceive of. . . . . Ain't technology GREAT. I'm just foolin' around all in good fun.

First time I used a Plasma cutter it blew my mind, and same with MIG, and TIG, and Laser guidance and on and on and on . . .

LAter FBp

 

Pete

The secret is out! My Bronson Rock is a 2 1/2 lb Engineers Hammer which will, with the correct ammount of applied technology render anything either fixed or usless with no leeway in between.

I had a really fun time making the mounts as my 15 yr old son was intently watching me and helping. He learned real quick on how to identify hammers when i told him to get the engineers hammer and he brought me a carpenters framer..................He now can get the ball peen, setting, riveting, and engineers with the best of them. It showed him that metal fabrication is cool with taking a flat sheet and making a three dimensional item from it. and he will be enrolled in the local schools automotive body techinical course for the next semester. (thats a good thing cuz i suck at paint).

I was spoiled in my teens with attending a sheet metal apprentice school and working in a shop wipping out fittings for eight hours a day. This will give you a strong conceptual idea of how things can be folded spindled and mutlitated to make just about what ever you want. The neatest thing i ever made was an onion for a Greek Orthodox church comprising of 10,000 pieces of copper plate that all interlocked in a spiral pattern. I had to refer to my 1921 NASMC Standard Pratices in Sheet Metal work for that one but it is still water tight after fifteen years.

Now i just work in an nice warm office and bid & manage Mechanical projects for a Large union contractor and bang tin for fun rebuilding slicks.





Garbz

 

Thanks guys, i would love to have a plasma cutter,never used one but looks very handy. i can identify with you on your son helping.my son is 18 and has never been machanicly inclined but he is realy into this project.poor kid though,i work nights and he was going to get the body bolts out from the frame,he said all they will do is turn,must be striped out..haha..i am going to show him tonight how 9 times out of 10 you have to tack weld the bolt head to the bed to get them out..unless you guys know a better way?anyway,im on my way over to email you garbs..Thanks..Tom