Anyone Tried The SOR FJ45 Body Mounts?

[cruiserkreutz]

Thinking about buying the SOR mounts, curious if the kit had enough mounts for a long bed? Their website says may need to re-use some old mounts, not cool for $255 plus shipping .

 

[KFJ45]

Hey CK, wondering how you made out with this. I just started researching this part of the project and thought the same thing as you did. What is so special that it's missing from an aftermarket kit??

I'm doing a Frame-off resto and honestly nothing from the bed or body mounts are re-usable.

Look forward to your response and hope things worked out. Thanks,

Ken

 

[cruiserkreutz]

Hey CK, wondering how you made out with this. I just started researching this part of the project and thought the same thing as you did. What is so special that it's missing from an aftermarket kit??

I'm doing a Frame-off resto and honestly nothing from the bed or body mounts are re-usable.

Look forward to your response and hope things worked out. Thanks,

Ken

Ken,

I bought this kit a little while ago and have been putting off trying to figure out where everything goes. My original mounts and fasteners were toast, so I unfortunately don't have much to use as reference. It looks like SOR started with an FJ40 kit then opened the box and added some extra mounts for a 45. The instructions are for a 40, so I don't think they are much help.
I've included some pictures in hopes someone might help me figure out which mounts go where. It'd be nice to have the answers on here for future reference...

 

[KFJ45]

Morning CK. Thanks for the response. It's been a while since my teardown but that kit looks way light in terms of the number of bed mounts. Let me pull up some photos of my chassis teardown. If I remember, the 45 cab only has 4 big mounts. We'll figure it out!

 

[KFJ45]

Here's the bottom of my cab showing the 4 mounting bushings.

 

[Michael B]

Don’t forget about the pair for the running boards.

 

[KFJ45]

Don’t forget about the pair for the running boards.

Roger that. Here's a pic with the running board wings removed already just showing the forward cab mount as well as the rear cab mounts:

Heading out to garage now, gonna do an inventory of the old mounts. I've been working on other parts of the project so I haven't done more than a quick look for a kit. Like CK above, I've only seen the SOR kit?? If Anyone else has a suggestion we'd love to hear about it!