spare tire hold down

toolbox · July 9, 2009 at 7:43 AM

I'm replacing the rear frame rails/trunk floors right now and will need to transfer the tire hold down to the new trunk floor. My kar is a January '65 Dearborn coupe and has the early style carriage bolt hold down.

Could anyone post a picture of how this hold down should look? Right now, the bracket looks slightly 'deformed', maybe from someone overtightening the bolt...or maybe it's supposed to look that way, I don't know. Before I hammer it flat I'd like to compare it to a picture of a good original.

Thanks

CharlesTurner · July 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM

The top edges should be flat, yours are probably raised up from over-tightening as you mentioned.

toolbox · July 9, 2009 at 11:28 AM

Thanks!

Another question-

The original floors are flat, with a small raised square over where the spring shackle mount is. The repro floors have a small ridge formed around where the bumper bracket goes, and three "lima bean" shaped stampings just forward of the spare tire mount. What are those for? A place to put the jack on later models?

I'm probably going to try to shrink them and hammer them flat to match the original better.

CSXEng_old · July 11, 2009 at 3:36 PM

Here is a picture of my trunk panel with the spare tire hold down.

Make sure you weld it in the right spot cause the tire won't fit properly.

Dave V.

Bramick_old · July 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM

This is from a 65 Jan k Fastback from Dearborn kar.

toolbox · July 12, 2009 at 5:42 AM

Thanks for the help guys!

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