Floor brace and Seat bracket studs

[87Warrior]

I am still trying to get the frame braces out of the truck in reusable condition. Spot welds are cut and the 2 through the floor bolts are removed. I am positive the braces are being held in place with the seat studs in the floor. What is the best way to work around these? Cut around them? Remove them? What did you do?

 

Thanks!

[Rymanrph]

The whole channel is just welded in. At the back the piece is sandwiched between the floor pan and the back of the cab, so unless you cut it at some point, the best you can do is just lift it as high as you can and work around it. What are you trying to accomplish?

[87Warrior]

Replacing the floor pans. Also want to gain access to the 'frame' channel to treat the inside with POR15 and get one of the X-member nuts back in place.

 

I have the front and back portions of the channel free (cut the back edge) as well as the sides (I HATE spot welds!). I believe the seat mounting studs are keeping the brace from lifting right out. The problem is I can not see how they attach or what they do under the brace. Or am I missing something?

[Rymanrph]

From what I remember, they are only attached to the channel itself. You're most likely just missing a spot weld.

[87Warrior]

Did you leave-in or remove the seat mounting studs? If removed, how did you go about it? If left in, did they cause any interference?

[Carl'sMJ]

The seat mounting studs are just attached to the channel itself. They do not go through to anywhere or hold anything. Go around the channel again and make sure all the spot welds are completely cut. It may help to take a hammer and chisel to go around and make sure everything is free... The chisel may even pop loose any remaining remnants of spot weld.

 

If you plan on reusing the channel I would just leave the seat mounting studs alone... There is no reason to bother removing them.

 

I just got done with POR-15 the inside of my frame rails.