I hear ya about leaving good enough alone, but I'm really anal when it comes to doing things, I'll have a nice new floor and an old pitted crossmember, it will drive me crazy after doing all that work, especially when all its gonna take is drilling out a few more spot welds, I'll definitely take your advice about doing a little bracing just in case
advice well taken thanks
I always use AMD products, quality has never been an issue for me, as for price everything on a restoration is pricey especially when you can no longer find these parts in your local junkyard, so the R&D involved with manufacturing new parts is quite costly for these manufacturers, most of AMD is manufactured in Taiwan where quality there is the same standards as Japanese Mfg. As for your trans mount Brewers Performance Products has them. One word of advice when installing the new torsion member make sure you install the torsion bars while mocking it up, don't assume that the original crossmember location is correct for the new one
So, when you fit up the new crossmember, I assume to insert the torsion bars into the new crossmember (with spring clips inserted) and then weld the new crossmember into place? I think would also dry-fit my new floor pan in to see if I'm ok in the up-down direction (crossmember height).
Yes exactly, make sure you clamp or screw the crossmember tightly in place, then make sure the torsion bars move in & out freely without any binding, then weld in place, I did not pre-fit the floor pan, no need too because there is a lot of space for the new crossmember.
