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19Fordy · 01-12-2014, 11:47 AM

Bob Drake's 40 Ford catalog shows a round rubber pad on the right side of the rear cross member between the cross member and the bottom of the floor pan, but no rubber pad on the left side. My coupe is the same and there is a space of about 1/4 inch between the floor pan and the rubber pad. Nothing rests on the pad. Anyone know why this is so? Click on pic to enlarge.

Kube · 01-12-2014, 03:36 PM

That round pad is correct and only on the right side. Why it's there? Haven't a clue.

donQ · 01-12-2014, 06:29 PM

I recently used the Drake kit to mount my 40 coupe and as 19Fordy says it doesn't appear to do anything. I was curious as to why there was one on the right and not on the left,but since even if there was one for the left it wouldn't do anything either. I naively assumed that it may be useful for some body style other than the coupe and didn't worry about i.
donQ

HOTRODPRIMER · 01-12-2014, 07:37 PM

I always assumed it was something to absorb vibration or for a different body,like a Woodie or sedan-delivery. HRP

911 STEVE · 01-13-2014, 05:37 PM

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01-12-2014, 03:36 PM	#2
Kube Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Wisconsin, USA Posts: 9,010	Re: 1940 Ford Body Mount Question That round pad is correct and only on the right side. Why it's there? Haven't a clue. __________________ "I can explain it for you. However, I can't understand it for you".

01-12-2014, 06:29 PM	#3
donQ Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 146	Re: 1940 Ford Body Mount Question I recently used the Drake kit to mount my 40 coupe and as 19Fordy says it doesn't appear to do anything. I was curious as to why there was one on the right and not on the left,but since even if there was one for the left it wouldn't do anything either. I naively assumed that it may be useful for some body style other than the coupe and didn't worry about i. donQ

01-12-2014, 07:37 PM	#4
HOTRODPRIMER Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Upstate,South Carolina Posts: 500	Re: 1940 Ford Body Mount Question I always assumed it was something to absorb vibration or for a different body,like a Woodie or sedan-delivery. HRP __________________ ‘When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one which has opened for us.’ Alexander Graham Bell

01-13-2014, 05:37 PM	#5
911 STEVE Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 66	Re: 1940 Ford Body Mount Question Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) Take Kube's word as gospel!!!