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Originally Posted by KNZ911
Great write up Jared. Do you have any pics of how you attached the console to the sole? Looks like you avoided screwing into the deck on the outside.
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The only picture I have of this is when I was still pulling wires and routing everything, but you get the gist of it. Since none of the joints where the console meets the floor is 90 degrees, more like 80 or so, I welded up some brackets out of 2" x 1/8" aluminum flat stock and bolted the console to the floor from the inside. I didn't want to see/trip over a 1 1/2-2" wide flange and bolt heads on the outside of the console so using this method all you see is a radius of 5200 where the floor and console come together.
There are backing plates under the floor where the console is bolted down. Where the bolts went through sections of the floor that had core material in them instead of solid glass I used a Dremel and removed about a 1" circle of the top skin and core material, leaving the bottom skin in tact. Then I filled this with thickened epoxy to create a hard point and redrilled the bolt holes so tightening down the console didn't just squish the core and eventually come loose. I used 5200 between both faces of the aluminum angle where it touches the fiberglass.
The big pie plate is an access point for where the sending unit in the gas tank is located. With a goal of not seeing any of these plates on the deck I planned for this to end up under the console when I was building the tank. The small pie plate is an afterthought, my arms weren't long enough to reach all the bolts to tighten down the console from the big opening.
