85 CJ& tub
can someone help me before I find out myself. I am about to take the sawzall to my rockers...My question. in front of the factory roll bar just behind and below the door opening on each side. there is a section of double wall. the factory seat belts would bolt to the floor with a centering hole into it ....if I go 2 or 3 inches below my door frame opening and cut from front fender to rear. what will i hit when i get to this double wall. I am thinking with the seat belts attched oringinally there might be some mild steel reinforcement in there ????? not that it matters I guess but it will slow the sawzall down a bit.....??????

thanks Mike:confused: :beer: :beer: :smokin: :smokin: :smokin:

I assume you're removing the rocker are flush with the tub floor. The area you're talking about is the stiffiners that run from the transmission tunnel to the rockers and are spot welded to the flooring. When you are using the sawsall to remove the material it should slow only a little when it goes through that sheet metal. There ain't much behind it... Just make sure you somehow re-spot (rivet -weld) the stiffiner back to the flooring at the end.

Mike Mike Mike,

Ya gotta quit getting distracted. We can do all that after we get it runnin!

Focus, Mike focus. (Not in the sick, obsessive way I do when I start wrenching)

Want some plasma? It's much faster!


Ed

maybe we are talking the same thing but this is not the channels under the tub but actually on the inside wall of the tub

PS
Yes Ed
but it is in a nice warm dry garage. if you remember correctly, if I can ever get it out. I probably wont be able to get it back in.....

it will take (we) to get it out...

Ok.. now we're talking Apples and Apples.

Behind the tub wall to the rear of the door opening is a pillar that shoots up toward the tub lip. On the bottom of that pillar is where the seat belt retractor is bolted in.

On the pillar, AT the location of the bolt hole is a NF nut welded to the backside of the pillar to accept the Torex bolt. Other than that, there is NO reinforcement. The pillar was spotwelded to the tub wall and the floor, no special plating to reinforce the retractor mounting or nothing.... cut away and enjoy!

Oh yes, if you cut a little too much... those pillars are still avaliable at DC parts counters... and If I remember correctly, they're about $60 a piece. But their also one of the first things to rot out here in the rust belt.

Thanks
provided i contniue with my intenions I should have the bottom half of a set of them if you ever need LOLL.I,m sure that is the aprt that rusts out.. AAAhhhhhhhhh the rust I remember that.. the closest rust to Dallas is the salt water down in the gulf....Ziebart would go out of business here

Mike

No rust... I came to this God-forsaken 7month frozen place for work from Washington State where I nevere saw a bit of rust. Now I'm watching my CJ decay before my very eyes.... it's a very tragic story.

I just want you to know that I am very jealous... Saw away and have great fun!