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Old 04-18-2010, 12:53 AM   #27
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Re: My version of the s10 swap

Thanks! Wiring is coming up here really soon.

OK for my updates. I'd been putting off doing the front body mounts partly because I was still trying to decide how I wanted to do them and partly because I was dreading getting all the front sheetmetal lined up correctly. I wanted to do the mounts differently than any of the other ones I've seen. I believe, like on Jeeps, the original radiator support was mounted near the middle to allow for frame flex, and to not have the frame flex translate into front clip fatigue/cracking. Since I now have an s10 frame and it won't flex like the original one...I wanted more of a modern-esque radiator support. I also wanted to use bushings to mount it, rather than hard mounted like most others.

After quite a bit of staring at it and thinking...here's what I came up with:







What I really like about how I did this, is that I made the mounts adjustable and they also have a captured nut. I can move the mounts around in a circle to make sure the clip is square and aligned properly, and only need a wrench on the top side. Later I'll go back and cap everything off and finish it out, it's just assembled now so I can keep working on other things.

I'll make little boxes in the corners of the inner fenders where I cut them out too, to keep road grime from ending up on top of these mounts.
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