The sills are not structural members. The door posts are welded to the
box member that runs from the leading edge of the body, just to the
rear of the wheel well, to the back, just in front of the rear wheel
well. That box member is the primary structural member, and to which,
through two "ears" attached to each of the right and left side, the body
is mounted to the frame.
However, you need a soundly weld or other means of attaching the sill to
that box member, and to the door posts.
Cheers.
Dave1massey@cs.com wrote:
>In a message dated 11/29/2006 9:02:18 AM Central Standard Time,
>zoboherald@aol.com writes:
>
>
>>I am so NOT a structural engineer (nor any other kind of engineer),
>>hence my possibly naive question here. "Pound for pound" (or whatever
>>SAT-style analogy you care to use here), are these adhesives as strong
>>as an equivalent spot weld or plug weld or other kind of weld? Or
>>(maybe the same question, but asked differently), is there any
>>difference in design of two pieces to be joined via a structural
>>adhesive rather than by conventional "mechanical" (weld) joining?
>>
>>
>>
>I am not either a structural engineer but I would think that a continuous
>seal of a good, polyurethane adhesive (such as Fusor which is used in new
>cars)
>could be as strong or stronger than a series of spotwelds, some of which may
>not have taken so good. The real question in my mind is will the adhesive
>stick
>to a powder coated surface? These adhesives are excellent at sticking to
>steel and painted surfaces but powder coating may yield a "Teflon(R)" like
>surface, if you catch my drift.
>
>Dave
>
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