Removing a 30 Roadster Body.

[Lowell Fast]

I've checked out the archieves till I am blue in the face . I have the Roadster body 1 foot in the air and would like to know the easiest next step. Is it easier to break down the light switch and pull the steering wheel or detach the whole column at the frame and pull whole column AND wheel intact ?. Column is free from the tank.

 

[todd3131]

Take the whole column out you could take the wheel off bit it will be much easier with the whole thing off.

Send photos of your project I like restoration projects

 

[Mitch//pa]

if your able to go higher you can leave the collumn in and roll the chassis out from under

 

[Lowell Fast]

I CAN GO 20 FEET IN THE air but the steering wheel will not allow.

 

[Mitch//pa]

I am installing the body in this pic with the Collumn in

 

[Mitch//pa]

i have the wheels sitting on dollys for easy manuverability of the chassis

 

[Lowell Fast]

MITCH, I see you removed thesteering wheel. I WAS WANTING TO STAY AWAY from the Spyder issues and pulling the wheel.

 

[todd3131]

My question his if you can't pull the body with out being told how to do it do you have the skills to do it? There was no internet when I did it I just had to figure it out for myself

 

[Dennis Pereira]

My question his if you can't pull the body with out being told how to do it do you have the skills to do it? There was no internet when I did it I just had to figure it out for myself

But now we have the internet and that's what makes this a great site . Helping each other

 

[Mitch//pa]

The steering wheel is on just not visible in the pic
Nothing on the Collumn is disturbed
I did remove the clutch and brake pedal

 

[Lowell Fast]

My question his if you can't pull the body with out being told how to do it do you have the skills to do it? There was no internet when I did it I just had to figure it out for myself

Todd, Are there many like you in Iowa? I only knew one guy from Iowa and he was just like you.

 

[todd3131]

Todd, Are there many like you in Iowa? I only knew one guy from Iowa and he was just like you.

Im not from Iowa so I have no idea, but you may think I'm an *** but it doesn't make me wrong

 

[BlueSunoco]

Open top car bodies seem like they would be something to be really careful about how you lifted it off the frame. Never did one myself, only helped with a Coupe years ago.

Sedans and Coupes have to be a lot more rigid than a Roadster or Phaeton, I'm just sayin'.

No harm in asking for help better than screwing it up. I'd be the one to booger up the sills I can guarantee THAT

Brent, any insight here you have a lot of experience with all body types............

 

[700rpm]

Todd, Are there many like you in Iowa? I only knew one guy from Iowa and he was just like you.

From "The Music Man" Iowa Stubborn:

Oh, there's nothing halfway
About the Iowa way to treat you,
When we treat you
Which we may not do at all.
There's an Iowa kind of special
Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude.
We've never been without.
That we recall.
We can be cold
As our falling thermometers in December
If you ask about our weather in July.
And we're so by God stubborn
We could stand touchin' noses
For a week at a time
And never see eye-to-eye.

 

[Mike V. Florida]

If it can be done with a closed car, it should be able to be done with a roadster.