Console bracket

**tidyvan** · 20-02-2015, 10:27 PM

From everything I've read here, I had a picture in my head of a large brackety looking thing for the console. All I have is this...
It's an an HX so does that mean probably not an original Sandman even though it had the toothed roof lining holder at the back?

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**Sandaro** · 20-02-2015, 10:43 PM

Well there's nobracket there, but was there one? It looks like marks (holes) from on being removed, welds pulled off?

**Alien DNA** · 20-02-2015, 10:46 PM

Looks like it was taken off...with force

**tidyvan** · 20-02-2015, 11:05 PM

It has one at the front. Maybe the rear one was forcibly removed, as suggested?

**wbute** · 20-02-2015, 11:06 PM

It means it has holes in the tunnel.

**tidyvan** · 20-02-2015, 11:23 PM

The other side of the tunnel is smooth. No sign of being altered from original. One of life's mysteries :-)

**Big Rob** · 21-02-2015, 12:20 AM

It probably wasn't spot welded on properly and ended up breaking off when it had been leaned on a billion times. Wasn't uncommon back then to see a lot of half-arsed spot welds and gaps in panels where welding didn't penetrate. Seam sealer filled 'em up.

**XX7SANDMN** · 21-02-2015, 01:02 AM

they never had spot weids but had good mig runs that would never ever pull out even to remove factory welded brackets takes a 4 inch cutter to cut thru the welds

**Valencia** · 21-02-2015, 01:38 AM

Originally Posted by XX7SANDMN

they never had spot weids but had good mig runs that would never ever pull out even to remove factory welded brackets takes a 4 inch cutter to cut thru the welds

Correct

**SLR_dave** · 21-02-2015, 06:14 AM

Is there any chance that section of the floor/transmission tunnel has been replaced at some point? Some of those lines look a bit odd to me, maybe strip the floor back, see whats under the paint. It's not a usual place for rust, but dumber things have happened, could have been cut out to fit a different tranmission at some stage perhaps and a repair afterward? If the black looking paint/coating, is body sound deadener it should rub back with turps and a stainless steel dish scrubber and a bit of scraping. If its someting else stripper should get you through for just that section.

Btw strikes me the site should have a pic of the original mounts if they are not on here already. I just tried to post some, but for some reason I couldnt upload, my computer jammed twice - its getting old, lol, still on Win XP, I can try again later. Perhaps somebody else can easily find an easy reference pic for tidyvan? I'll have to reinstall Mozilla to upload I think.