What type of plate should I use to bolt up my 60?

[KYJ10]

I was putting it all together today, finally, and realized that enlarging the holes from my 44 bottom plate wouldnt work. It worked fine on my 14ff. So anyway, I need to come up with a plate to place oveer the top of my leafs, and send the ubolts through. Will just a thick gage, rectangled piece of plate work? Just drill out the ubolt holes and the centering pin hole. What do everyone else do? I dont want to run the ubolt downward, so must come up with something? Dennis

[KYJ10]

too tired to edit my mistakes!

[scotty]

when my friend installed a ford d60 in his xj,he was able to reuse not only the plates,but the u bolts as well from his front 44. he hid have to do some clearancing on the driver side of the housing,tho it was minimal.

[Elliott]

My D60 didn't come with plates. Had thick plate punched for the holes.

[Rockwagon]

I was able to reuse my stock plates front and rear!! Infact I used the old sway bar mounts for new shock mounts..

[Will Morris]

I just went to a local fab shop and had them cut some 1/2" steel plate and drill holes in my specified locations. It doesn't look that spiffy, but I imagine the spring mounts would be ripped off the frame before my plate cracks.

Will

[Wood's Wagon]

Who cares if the U bolt plate looks like crap. All it has to do is serve its function. I love home fabrication.