I was just ready to start piecing back together the driver's side floor in my '57 Golden Hawk. Have the new Classic front body support in place, welding primer in place, etc.... when I discovered there is NOT a 'through hole" in the frame for the body-mount's bolt hole. When I removed it, the bolt head had snapped off immediately, and I figured the broken "other end" probably had gotten swept up with all the other garbage that keeps falling off the underside of the body everytime I whack it or grind or wirebrush.... Didn't think much about it until I started looking for a new bolt in the assortment of NOS frame bolts I bought, and started trying to find the "other hole" in the frame where it must go through.
No hole. Actually, there IS a hole (which I thought was the one) but it doesn't line up.
So, I went over to the passenger side (untouched yet), and very carefully removed that same bolt over there. It didn't break, and I can see lots of threads directly under the hole on the TOP of the frame. Did Stude weld a nut INSIDE the frame before putting the frame together??? Am I missing something obvious here? I don't see any way to
A) get at that area from inside the frame to put a nut on that bolt
B) or weld it in place if I COULD
Plus, the batwing seems to be solid without a hole, so must have been a captured nut somehow
Do I have to try and drill a hole through both the Batwing and the BOTTOM of the frame, go buy an extra long bolt, and tighten it up that way? Thought about trying to sneak a nut up and in with a magnet from one of those holes on the bottom of the frame farther down the channel, but I'd never get a wrench in there to hold it to tighten it.
Suggestions??? In the photos, you can see the snapped off nut from THIS mount, and next to it the unbroken bolt from the passenger side.
Thanks!
Barry
No hole. Actually, there IS a hole (which I thought was the one) but it doesn't line up.
So, I went over to the passenger side (untouched yet), and very carefully removed that same bolt over there. It didn't break, and I can see lots of threads directly under the hole on the TOP of the frame. Did Stude weld a nut INSIDE the frame before putting the frame together??? Am I missing something obvious here? I don't see any way to
A) get at that area from inside the frame to put a nut on that bolt
B) or weld it in place if I COULD
Plus, the batwing seems to be solid without a hole, so must have been a captured nut somehow
Do I have to try and drill a hole through both the Batwing and the BOTTOM of the frame, go buy an extra long bolt, and tighten it up that way? Thought about trying to sneak a nut up and in with a magnet from one of those holes on the bottom of the frame farther down the channel, but I'd never get a wrench in there to hold it to tighten it.
Suggestions??? In the photos, you can see the snapped off nut from THIS mount, and next to it the unbroken bolt from the passenger side.
Thanks!
Barry
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