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New Bright JK- How are you mounting body
Topic Started: Mar 24 2010, 02:35 AM (2,984 Views)
mtownryda
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I am building a NewBright JK body on a scx10 chassis. How are you guys mounting the body to your frames on these projects? Any description or pictures would be great. Thanks.
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dadrab
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I noticed you hadn't had any nibbles with advise on a body mounting strategy.

I think it's probably because there are as many stratagies as there are Jeeps with that body. :laugh: Everyone seems to have a slightly different way of doing it.

Poke around and look at some of the builds. You'll pick up some ideas pretty quickly. A lot of folks will devise a plan to hold the body on with Velcro. That works very well. Others will opt for a hardware type of approach.

I was reading recently where a guy put helicoils in some body mounting posts that came on the body. Then, all he had to do was run a couple of screws up through the chassis and put a strap in the back. That was the most ingenious way I've seen recently.

Throw some imagination at it. :nice:
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Here’s a few pics of mine. For the rear I used a couple of pieces of styrene to make the mount on the body...I got lucky because when I moved the shock hoops back to match the wheelbase it fell just right. The front is very simple, a piece of Velcro stuck to the hood. On the truck I glued a piece of styrene to the front body mounts, on the rear I removed the body mounts and bolted a piece of styrene to the shock hoops, stuck Velcro on both. Here’s a couple of pics.....

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I tried the velcro route and decided it was a bit too wonky for my tastes. Here is how I did it. Took a while to figure out a method I was happy with but I didn't want anything that was too noticeable.

Angle aluminium off the stock body posts in the JK's hood with a steel rod through to both. There is a C collar on one side that stays on and a body clip on the other side piercing the steel rod.
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The back is some losi mini crawler body posts and a home made cross brace. The micro posts were a god choice because they allowed me to screw through the bed with minimal screw head showing.
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here's some of the things I have used.
flat angles set to the spacing of the JK screw mounts.. then used a body post in the JK screw hole, and clip under the brackets:
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Also used some flat lexan, bent into a bracket and screwed to the stock JK mount holes, and then to my frame. These worked GREAT, but you have to have your battery stuck in there for a while. There's no way to remove it unless you take off the mounts. (I use lipos, so no need to take it out for weeks)

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Also used an exo cage sort of idea on the Brute, and then bacause the body sort of clips into the cage anyway, I used only some front bent catches and a rear velcro loop to hold it down onto the frame/cage. Real easy if your body is held in place some other way. One velcro will keep it there forever.

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Also used a clip/hinge combo on one of them. Just the same clip/post as the first set of pics, but then a double hinge in the rear. Also works great.

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I also have a bracket made up for the top of the front shock tower that used the BIG holes on the JK. you can see below how I stuck a 1/4-20 coil thread into those holes, and then used a large screw from the bottom of my black delrin mount. That's not going anywhere fast.
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