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    Frame to floor pan welds.

    Found this interesting recall kit on eBay. its for bolting the frame rails to the floor pans on all 1992 and some 93 Daytonas. I was just doing some sheet metal repair having to remove some spots welds and I noticed some pulled apart far too easy some were not even fused with the underlying metal.

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    Re: Frame to floor pan welds.

    Does that mean US spec cars did not get a safety recall for that?
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    Re: Frame to floor pan welds.

    Wow. That is very interesting. I've never heard of that before. Perhaps that's why the earlier cars crack the firewall too?

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    Re: Frame to floor pan welds.

    Quote Originally Posted by wheming View Post
    Does that mean US spec cars did not get a safety recall for that?
    That recall has come up a few times over the years, all the cars were supposed to have it done.

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    Re: Frame to floor pan welds.

    We used repair faulty spot welds in the body shop all the time in the 1990's. Chrysler strut towers were common.

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    Re: Frame to floor pan welds.

    Quote Originally Posted by 135sohc View Post
    That recall has come up a few times over the years, all the cars were supposed to have it done.
    never once have I seen a bolted rail. guess its time to start bolting our welds together.
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    Re: Frame to floor pan welds.

    bad or missing spot welds in a mopar is really really old news as this issue has existed since they went to unibody construction years and years ago

    I have a friend with extensive mopar restoration experience and he's told me of cars that had the entire length of the bottom quarter panel seams left unwelded and wheel tubs not welded to the quarter etc

    also don't underestimate the strength of well placed , large pop riviets

    when doing the patch job in the floors of my first 86 daytona I probably had 75 or so rivets in the passenger side floor attaching the patch to the surrounding good floor frame rail and the rocker/door post

    that car had no rebar when I drove it into the side of a ford areostar at about 35-40 mph

    hitting on an angle all the force of the accident was transferred to the passenger side frame rail which shifted rearwards into the car 3-4 inches - the entire length of the frame rail moved back under the pass side seat
    and it took the rest of the floor pan with it pulling & streaching everything backwards with the framerail

    none of the riviets pulled out - non of them even came loose

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