Rear swaybar floor mount cracked

Greengem20B · Post by **Greengem20B** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 11:03 pm

After years of running the Gem far too low, and with heavier swaybars, the floorpan where the rear swaybar mounts to now has a split 270 degress around.

Pretty damn bad, take the rear seat out and I can see through the floor

The thing is the two mounting plates welded to the floor from factory both have raised edges. I was going to weld a piece of 4mm plate on the inside under the rear seat but the 2 bolts and the high edges prevent the plate from sitting flush on the fllorpan.

Anyone else almost torn the swaybar and mount off the floor, if so how did ya fix it?

Todd.

elky · Post by **elky** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:47 am

drill out the spot weld and remove the plate, weld in you new plate and respot the old plate back on, or just weld on nuts to the bigger plate instead

cheers

LOK15 · Post by **LOK15** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:23 am

my original ZZ/Z cracked across the floor between the mounts , yes , from being waaaay too low. You also need to make sure the sway bar is upwards , and not rubbing on the diff , this will speed up the cracking floor.

stock_gem · Post by **stock_gem** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:13 pm

i had a TG that had that.

lucky it was getting scrapped. it wasn't even that low either.

Greengem20B · Post by **Greengem20B** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 9:26 pm

^^^ Its not quite that bad but not far off it,

Ill take that standard piece off and replace it with new plate tap 2 holes into it for swaybar to bolt up too.