rear coil support plate
 

I need to replace my rear coil upper support plates/brackets, mine are rusted pretty bad. I cant find anyone that sells these. I noticed some pictures of other 67-72's that just have flat plates riveted to the frame. Mine are more of a L shape. They are riveted to the crossmember and to the bottom of the frame. Can i just fab up a flat plate and bolt them to the bottom of the frame or do i need to try and find replacements like mine out of the junkyard? If i need to find replacements i noticed that there is a filler plate in between my stock plates and the frame due to the odd shape of the brackets can i just cut a plate to fit in there?

Re: rear coil support plate
 

You need the 'L' shape to keep the frame from twisting under the load. They are not re-popped as far as I know. I just bought a set from a board member(Thanks Frizzle).

Re: rear coil support plate
 

I thought about just fabbing up a bracket to tie everything back together. Could i just flush mount the bracket to the frame or would it need to have the same shape as the stock one?

Re: rear coil support plate
 

Check with billsbowtie, he might have what you need since he has a huge parts collection all the time in the for sale forum.

Re: rear coil support plate
 

Look for someone in the suspension forum converting from trailing arms to 4-link or some other set-up and ask them what they plan on doing with their stock crossmember (that's how Gringo got mine).

Re: rear coil support plate
 

thanks guys, i will start asking around.