And then I make a discovery was digging through the mess. There is a separate center section of the rubber that is shaped like a “U”.
I got around to cleaning the rust off the rubber, man that is a lot of work to do. Rust sucks. So I got it quite clean and nice looking. The picture just shows it kind of clean, but I got it all.
I devised up a special bracket that would fit back into the rubber. I took some measurements for the studs and holes that they fit into. I went out and bought 6mm by 3” bolts, cut the heads off and grinded down to size. I then had a neighbor weld them onto the bracket. They came out great. But stupid me, I finished the project and forgot to take pictures of the brackets, so I drew them out. This is exactly what they looked like. It is square pipe cut length wise in half with studs welded on the ends.
