Thread: Rangie Custom Tray ideas

Originally Posted by mcrover

You can get rubber mounts from pretty much any industrial supplier such as industrial engineers in Knoxfield or A&A industrial supplies in Bayswater.

But you can also normally order them through places like Thomas Warburtons or most bearing suppliers.

As I stated before, we found it best to just bolt the risers to where the body mount goes and then use Hard wood timbers between the tray and the risers with big U bolts.

This is how most utes and trucks mount their trays as the hardwood takes out the rattles without having the flex that the rubber mounts do so it makes for a more rigid fittment.

The problem with rubber is it can compress and loosen the bolts or even worst when they spring back they can break bolts after repeated battering from the mount flexing.

Style side utes do use rubber mounts and dont usually break bolts so I suppose it's an acceptable form of mounting.

Hope this helps Mick good luck

It does help but this is no normal ute i cant run a piece of c section for front to back and the chassis has a wave in it and i need the mounts wider then the chassis to accommodate up to a 36" tyre. I have completely changed my mounting style now as i am using the original body mounts at the rear and fabing new one which will be welded to the rear outriggers and leaving the the middle of the tray floating. Which is what the engineer wanted anyway... just took me a few days to work it all out.....

Mick

Yes they were, but we had them made for us by an engineer in bayswater who is no longer there.

Im going back over 10 years when I worked for that company but Im sure that any engineer worth his salt could spin a thread on some HT steel rod and bend it for you.

You can by cast U bolts from truck body builders as well which we used to use on the light truck trays and they may have the HT U bolts as well.

Truckline in Hampton park should be able to point you in the right direction if thats the way you deide to go.