buckintone
Sr. Member
What's wrong with bushing tie-in's? It's the proper way to do it if done correctly. Unless you have a trail only rig, you can't directly tie your cage to your frame otherwise you render all your flexible body mounts entirely useless and will transfer all kinds of frame vibration right into the body and interior cabin. The most commonly accepted means of addressing this is to use bushings at the cage mount points. Now I've seen some ass backwards attempts at this (on this forum) where somebody used bushing at the frame side basically introducing a hinge (bad thing).
Here's a thread on Pirate about cage tie-in's, the bushing approach is widely accepted as the most desirable:
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=840005
Here's a good universal bushing tie-in kit:
http://4xinnovations.com/p-RC1715.html
To each his own, most body mounts these days aren't very flexible, usually Poly urethane or plastic with the body lift, some guys put rubber pads between the upper and lower mount plate, that seems ok, but that bolt through bushing thing would just act like a barrel hinge as the cage crushed down. I personally don't think the body mounts isolate much, even rubber ones are so compressed they offer little to no vibration dampening. the motor and tranny mounts certainly do. Great shocks, seats and a rigid chassis will be the most comfortabe, best riding combo. But again, to each his own. Good luck