so this is our new universal body mount bracket kit and we have a number of different variations
on that so this is the basic weld on bracket we worked with the local bushing supplier and laser
cutting shop to cut and Bend these brackets they are available in a weld-on bracket like
this just bare metal and you can weld this to the frame to replace a body mounting bracket
they have a slotted one-inch hole here so that you could put a body mount bushing in there and its
size to fit a bushing with a one-inch diameter lip here in the middle so you can see how that
fits through there and then you sandwich the bracket with the bushing and this allows you
about one inch or 25 millimeters of adjustment so you can go from a minimum of two and a half inches
between the body mount bolt and the frame and you can go out to about three and a half inches
so the bracket itself is about three inches tall about four and a quarter inches so maybe a hundred
ten millimeters width so it'll work on the early Toyota pickups and for runners the Tacoma pickups
first second third generation 4runner then we're a little over three inches wide sat bushing is 2 and
3/4 so you can see it's it's a little bit bigger than that so like I said we have it in a weld-on
version you can just buy the bracket you can buy the bracket with the bushings and then you you can
use your original bolts we can supply new bolts if you need those so in the 1996 4runners there's no
body mount bracket in one of the positions on the frame and there's no bushings and there's no bolt
so we can supply you the bracket the bushings the washers and the bolts so that's where we started
with these but we've had a number of people want brackets for other applications either
due to damage so you want to replace a rusted out body mount bracket so we've had customers
who want to put a or an extra cab or a double cab on to a pickup that maybe has a single cab
and what they need to do is put new cab mount bracket farther back on the frame because the
longer cab requires relocating the bracket so this way you can just attach to new bracket
farther back on the frame and you don't have to try to cut the old brackets off the frame
and then try to weld them back on and then we can also take a plate like this where we drill
a couple of holes and then we can weld out to the bracket and that gives you a place to bolt
to body mount bracket to the frame if you don't have access to a welder and then we supply some
self-tapping bolts you mark where you want the bolt holes to be you drill a 5/16 or
eight millimeter pilot hole and then you run these self-tapping bolts and they cut threads into the
side of the frame and you can bolt these in place and so here's one that we've finished up and this
one we welded the plate on the inside so we can either weld the plate on the inside if you're on
a really narrow vehicle or we can weld the plate on the outside if you have a wider body mount to
spacing that you need to work this customer was on a Toyota pickup and he has the narrow set up
so we we did a narrow version or we can weld it on like that and give you about 3/16 of an inch
extra or you could you could weld on a quarter inch plate three eighths plate half inch plate
you know whatever thickness plate you want to go on there we can do that and I believe both
of these customers had pickups that failed their annual vehicle inspection because of
rusty body or cab Mountain brackets so they need to replace those brackets to get their
vehicle to pass inspection so you just grind off the old brackets the old rusty brackets cut them
off grind the frame smooth and then bolt them on and it's really easy to get the brackets lined up
because all you do is put the bushing in the in the bracket and then you run your factory bolt
through the bolt hole in the cab then you slide the bracket in or out until it touches the frame
and then you go inside mark your holes drill them and then put this back on and bolt it in place so
the part is kind of self locating you don't have to do any measurements at all so you just have to
get within about one inch of the proper spacing let's go take a look at a Toyota 4runner and I'll
show you how this works here's the frame rail of a vehicle and then there's these brackets that
get welded to the side and then right here is your body mount and this is the bolt that comes
down through the floor of the vehicle and then goes through the body mount bushing and holds
the body to the frame right there you can see that's about two and a half inches maybe two and
five-eighths from the frame to the center of that bold so our brackets can go anywhere from two and
a half out to three and a half the bolt on my 85 Toyota 4runner is a just a little over two and a
half inches from the frame and if you go up to a third generation 4runner the bolt is about three
and a half inches from the frame and then Tacoma pickups are like three and a quarter inches the
second and third generation four runners and pickups are about two and three-quarter inches
so there's variability here so right here is the forward or what we call the a-pillar body mount
bracket it's right under the windshield and so you've got one of these brackets that's much
longer but that's where this weld on bracket would be very handy if you had say rust damage
out here needed to replace this bracket so that's where the weld on would be quite nice you can come
in here and find out where where this thing's gonna fit in there and cut back to some clean
metal on this part and then because you forgot the slide adjust this in or out as you need to
line up with the bracket so try to make these as flexible as possible because there's even on one
vehicle you've got different types of brackets yes so if you need brackets we can sell these
individually say if you're repairing a damaged bracket on a vehicle we can sell them in pairs
weld on bolt on if you don't have access to a welder you could bolt this to the frame and then
drive down to a shop where they have a welder and then they could just run a weld bead around
this bracket to firmly attach it to the frame if you wanted to go that way these are designed
to fit on a Dodge Durango pickup so with these we had to weld on this two inch extension here
to push the brackets out far enough for the frame to body mount Center which on the Durango is five
inches here and this customer wanted a bolt-on bracket so what he's going to have to do is cut
off his rusty cab mounts and I'll cut a picture in here so you can see what those look like
so the original cab mounts are about five inches wide so these should fit into the space in the
middle of that bracket so he may not have to grind off all the old welds around the side so
that should make it a little easier in the Bolton version you can get these painted like this or if
you want to do your own finish you're gonna do powder coating or if you want to do zinc primer
if you want to do your own finishing we can ship them unfinished and you can do whatever you want
we're sized to fit that one inch or 25 millimeter raised ring there so that's the important part on
fitting these so Toyota tends to use this size bushing Mitsubishi uses something similar every
car maker truck maker is going to do something a little bit different so that's one critical
thing with these brackets they need one inch or smaller diameter right there if you have larger
than that one option is to trim that down so it fits the idea what that ring is it just keeps the
middle of the sleeve from touching the middle here if you don't want to fool with it we can
supply a new polyurethane bushings because the one thing to consider is if this steel of your
old body mount bracket has rusted out what shape are your original rubber bushings in
you might not notice that the old one is in bad shape until you take it off and then see how bad
it is so we've had customers do that they get in take the old stuff apart and then they see
how bad the bushings are and want to replace them yeah and then we do have three different
sizes of bushings here these are approximately two and a half inch diameter uncompressed about
62 millimeters and then we have these smaller bushings these are about 45 millimeters so a
little bit under 2 inches uncompressed when these compress they'll they'll get bigger
so these typically will ease well out maybe another quarter inch or so so this one will
be a little over two inches this one will be a little over two and a half and then we also
have this composite or hybrid bushing that we make that is two and three-quarter inch
diameter so that also works well with these brackets because it's kind of the width of the
flat part of the metal here so if you want larger bushing we can get you the two and three-quarter
inch two and a half or roughly a two inch bushing so three different sized bushings
to match roughly what's on your vehicle so yeah if you have any questions about those post up in
the comment section below link to the webpage down there and as always thanks for watching