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[toryman76]

Hi all,

 

I did a quick search and couldn't find all of the info needed for the centre console bracket position. I just wanted to confirm with the good folk of the forums where they go and how to best fit them to ensure they are correctly level. Before I removed the brackets from my donor car I took some measurements, as illustrated below.

 

Can anyone confirm this is correct?

 

[Statler]

Easiest way i've found is to screw the brackets onto the consol, sit the consol in the car & tack weld the brackets to the floor.

 

Always gets it in the right spot.

 

Remember to allow a little bit of room for underlay/carpet. 

[Lima31]

My LH has the factory welded bracket at the rear with the wider tab on the left (passenger) side, not the driver side.

[toryman76]

+1

Too smart!

Yes I did think of doing this. I don't want to use my centre console for this job though, seeing as its a Sunbird/Hatch console. I do have a pretty beat up HQ console that I could use as a dummy fit. The mounting hole centres for these consoles are the same as the Torana yes? Just the lower profile is different?

[toryman76]

My LH has the factory welded bracket at the rear with the wider tab on the left (passenger) side, not the driver side.

 

The LX Sunbird I took these off was definitely the opposite; i.e. as per my sketch with the larger flange on the driver side. This wouldn't of been a Sunbird thing would it?

[Shiney005]

The photos have disappeared from here so I am not sure which bracket the OP is asking about. I want to know about this one towards the front of the tunnel. The first picture came from facebook, and the second from a car currently in my local panel beaters. They look to have factory spot welds, but one is in one way and one is 180 degrees around the other way. (The local car has obviously had the tunnel modified at some stage) What model are they from?

 

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[Statler]

The one closest to the shifter hole is factory .

The other one looks home made to suit a console with screw holes in the side. 

[Shiney005]

They are in two different cars on opposite sides of the country though Col. 

[toryman76]

Hi Laurie. They are my photos. Good old photobucket destroying all decent archives from this forum... I still have the photos somewhere. I will upload them to this thread over the next few days.

[Shiney005]

Good stuff.

[toryman76]

I managed to get access to photobucket. Hopefully the resolution is ok. See attached my original image posted which was a sketch of the two brackets and there locations relative to the cross member. These are the only style of brackets I have seen on cars with full length consoles. I read on here some time ago that very early LH bodies share similarities with HQ but there wouldn't be many of those around. I have never seen the two different styles of brackets in your photos. They look like after market modifications to me but that's just my thoughts.  Torana Console Brackets.jpg   128.42K   4 downloads

[yel327]

HQ don’t have a bracket for the front of the console so nothing like Torana. There is only one console too, they are always “full length”. LH will be shared in bracket design with HJ Holden and Statesman.

[toryman76]

HQ don’t have a bracket for the front of the console so nothing like Torana. There is only one console too, they are always “full length”. LH will be shared in bracket design with HJ Holden and Statesman.

Seems my memory of what I read was not so good. Thanks for clarifying.

[yel327]

HQ only have one bracket for the rear, and it is shared by both console shift cars and those with seat separators. Seat separator has one front screw straight into the tunnel, console does the same but has two screws.
It is HJ that is like LH with the tall rear console bracket (both HJ and LH use two of these for a seat separator) and that small one at the front for a console. The front bracket changes a little during HX, Torana probably does too. Gets a bit more adjustment built into the front bracket.

[Shiney005]

The thing that gets me, is that apart from the fact that one is welded on backwards, they are identical. And they are on two different cars. One of which, I am pretty sure is a Sunbird.

[toryman76]

Looking closer at the second photo now you pointed that out yes they do look the same just one is backwards. I am not familiar with UC's but looking on Google I reckon that front bracket looks pretty similar to a UC bracket. Perhaps the first photo is from a UC converted to LX and they left the front bracket there. Or maybe there was a period late in LX builds where they used both styles of brackets? But looking at the console designs I can't see how this would be possible.

[UCSLE]

the bracket in my uc looks like the one in the second pic (stock console bracket )

 

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[Shiney005]

Thanks Troy. And going by the photo the "ears" face the rear of the car? And you don't have the LX bracket as well like the top photo I put up?