Body Mount Question

Looking into replacing the rubber puck style body mounts on the wagon...I believe the original set-up was with the rubber pucks directly between the body and frame...but I was wondering about sandwiching the rubber puck with flat washers on each side to possibly help with long term deformation? Good idea? bad? Will it create too much stress at the edge of the washer on the bottom of the body? Maybe just a waste of money for 28 washers (14 mounts)?

 

yes - I should have specified some fender washers, although the pucks are somewhat surprisingly small diameter....also was suggested to make sure the washer hole be a a couple size larger than the actual bolt to ensure no issues with restricting differential movement/vibration....

 

So here is comparison of the what is coming out vs what is going in....



the replacements are the reported correct 7/8" thick and 2" in diameter....the ones coming out are more like 1/2" thick and 2.25" diameter....I am happy to get a bit of body 'lift' from these. Not sure if the ones coming out were 7/8" thick at some point and have squeezed down and out, or if someone used different pucks at some point (I believe earlier trucks and wagons used something closer to what is coming out, so maybe that is where they came from). Inspecting the body mounts on the frame and body, with the 2" diameter puck, they are completely covered on the top and bottom with the mounts, so not sure there is any need for the additional washers sandwiching the puck - just the OEM washers for the bolt head and nut. Additionally, I am having some 'fiddly' issues and the body is not trivial to lift up just enough to slide the pucks, so I going with just the pucks for now....maybe after I get them all in, I could try and redo do them and slide the washers in, but for now, it doesn't seem needed or worth it....

 

same here...it was the budget lift for my YJ....I was from FL so didn't know much about hockey, but went to undergrad at Colorado College which is a big D1 hockey school (back then they were competing for national championships with Michigan and N Dakota etc - they struggled a lot more of late) and my roommate was a recreational hockey player - he used to pluck a puck or two when there was open ice/intramurals and that was the 'budget' lift...
I am still debating trying to add some additional washers around the 'pucks', but that would require longer bolts and thus all new hardware....sounds cheap, but I am not really in the market for another $20 in hardware at the moment...Start work a week from today so hopefully the cash flow will start to balance out...

 

So here is a comparison with one side with the new mounts, and one side still with the old (hopefully finishing this off today)....
With the old mounts, the body floor channels were basically sitting on the frame rails:


With the new mounts, the body floor channels have some clearance above the frame rails which should work a lot better...

 

Walcks...they have two thicknesses based on year and model. I got the 7/8" thick which is the OEM thickness for later wagons.