body support w/o frame
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audiness Yep that's what I was talking about, how you protect the body from flex / damage etc while the frame is taken out from underneath. I was thinking that if you do something like this it would be easier to place the running gear in and work on it without the body in place. So the body might be setting around for a bit while you worked on other stuff.
tee-bone
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Just a guess - as long as you lifted the body fairly evenly (and had most of the weight out of it) I would be surprised if it were an issue. They probably need to do that on a vette due to it being made of fiberglass - I would be surprised if a steel body couldn't support itself.
TOPSECRETTUNDRA
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Love the pictures ^^^
There is your answer!
There is your answer!
psiems
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I live in the rust belt and the road commission uses salt during the winter months. I wonder if it I should have the under body, including the frame coated with something to prevent this situation from ever happening to my runner. I plan to keep her until the cows come home. Would Ziebart be the answer? Has anyone tried something else? Happy Thanksgiving!
mmml4 how did you actually lift the body off? Where were the lift points on the body to get the clearance for the 4x4's (size?) that you slide between frame and body? Don't know if I'll ever do this, but if I do I don't wanna tear up anything unneccessarily. I can beat the crap out stuff when I know what I'm doin LOL
mmml4
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Thanks guys. Well the old guy with the cowboy hat on had what he called a railroad jack that he used when he was young to move house's.
I placed it at the front of the transmission tunnel and used a 4x4 to span from under one floorboard to the other. I then used short pieces of 4x4 at each end of that 4x4 to spread the load along the floorboards. I don't remember how long the short ones were. I jacked until the jack was out of travel and then used blocks to get it high enough to get the long 4x4's under it and on the 55 gallon drums.
In the rear I used a 5 ton floor jack sitting on blocks with a layer of wood between the jack and blocks. I used a short piece of 4x4 to span across the two rubber pads that the spare tire is pulled up against. I jacked it up until I thought it was high enough to get the new frame back under the body. I had to let almost all the air out the tires to get the frame low enough.
Piece of cake right. Like I said the body is pretty rigid.
I placed it at the front of the transmission tunnel and used a 4x4 to span from under one floorboard to the other. I then used short pieces of 4x4 at each end of that 4x4 to spread the load along the floorboards. I don't remember how long the short ones were. I jacked until the jack was out of travel and then used blocks to get it high enough to get the long 4x4's under it and on the 55 gallon drums.
In the rear I used a 5 ton floor jack sitting on blocks with a layer of wood between the jack and blocks. I used a short piece of 4x4 to span across the two rubber pads that the spare tire is pulled up against. I jacked it up until I thought it was high enough to get the new frame back under the body. I had to let almost all the air out the tires to get the frame low enough.
Piece of cake right. Like I said the body is pretty rigid.
