Marrying the body to the frame

Terry NJ

Terry NJ

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Yesterday, I put the body back on the frame. There are pictures in my album, "My A". The considerations were how to get the body lifted high balanced enough to clear the steering wheel, not to sway too much, get it down on the frame in one piece, in alignment with the holes for the body bolts and without making any scratches in the new paint. All of which we got accomplished with a minimum of close calls. Most notably when the rope broke and it landed on the frame after about a six inch drop. The rope ( 1/4 in black polypropylene) wasn't quadrupled and I guess it was working near it's limit. Note to anyone anticipating this, Use only 3/8 nylon (White). I use a rig where I cross the two lines L to R and R to L but I didn't leave enough slack to get the hook on the back of the bucket and bringing the bucket lower would have brought it too close to the body. Anyway, All's well that ends well! and it ended well!
Terry
 
That should have read "today we dropped the body onto the frame" ha ha...
Glad all worked out well. "You don't have to be good, just lucky"
 
I assisted in installing a recently painted Victoria body back onto the frame. We used a two-post hoist, and a LOT of wood blocks to get the thing high enough to clear the steering wheel. It was scary as no one wanted to scratch the new paint. We cleared the wheel by 1/4 inch. Your method would scare me as well, especially when the rope broke! Glad it worked for you
 
Russ Koch said:
Put the steering column/assy. in after putting the body on the frame. No?
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I remove the pedals but leave the collumn in, as well as the shift lever

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Mitch, Weight considerations told me to leave the body as unassembled as possible. I was pretty sure that we were working near the limits of the polypropylene rope. I was right! And , I don't have a fork lift. I was working on it today and I ran into a couple of little problems with the frame-body welt and bolt heads sticking up.
Terry


Mitch//pa said:
I remove the pedals but leave the collumn in

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I don't like polypropylene rope. It was very weak from sun damage on my boat winch, and it broke as I was driving up the boat ramp. I hadn't pinned the eye hook yet, as I was in a hurry to get off the ramp so the next guy could use it. Anyway the junk rope broke and when my 12 foot aluminum runabout slid off the back it knocked my 1918 Evinrude onto the pavement and dented the gas tank so bad it leaked. Now I have to re restore it.

I use only woven nylon rope, which cost a little more than twisted nylon rope, but is much stronger.

Yep, you got real lucky with the body drop.:)
 
I just remove the steering column and gear shift lever and pedals and block the body using two 4x4's & stacks of concrete blocks, and roll the chassis under it. One man operation, and I save the cost of a tractor or fork lift. Bob
 
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