kobi67
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I am getting ready to drop the body on a new frame. Any advise on how to get it shimmed properly would help.. Coupe body. Thanks, Kurt
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BarryK said:Bob
your knowledge and experience is a great asset to this forum. I look forward to reading each of your threads and posts whenever I see you have contributed.
even if the subject is one that doesn't pertain to my car (at least currently) I usually learn something from your posts that i can file away in the back of my mind for any future use.
Work's for Me!! But I like 8 stand's myself!! junk!!stepinwolf said:Barry,
I appreciate your gratious comments, but I must admit that like everyone else, I too have leaned regulary from this Forum.
The procedure I have described in this post has always worked very well for me in the past. However I must confess that my first trys were not always easy to accomplish, and only after having completed the process a few times did I become comfortable with the process. For the first time user, the alternative process that has also been recommended in one of these responses, ( check 61 silver ) would undoubtedly be much easier, and safer for the un-initiated. Here is how I interpret the previous instructions.
Take a certain quantity of body shim ( you will need quite a few spares ) and deposit 5 or 6 of them ( same quantity ) on each frame mount. Then lower the body carefully and let it rest on the shims. Then check each mount for clarence, because there will certainly be some places where it will be impossible to move the shims, and by the same token, there will be other places where the body will not quite touch the frame shims, or there might even be a space between both.
Now for the easy, eh !, make that fun part. Go around the car, and locate each place that the shims are tightly in place, and remove one shim from each of these positions. Then it's around the car once more to verify the tightness, or loosesest ( for lack of a better word ) until all six or eight mounts have the same pressure on the shims. An excellent procedure, and I am anxious to try this method myself.
Kudos to Vette Products for his recommendations
Stepinwolf
P.S. By the way Barry, filling stuff away in the back of your mind is good, I do it myself regulary, but to be able to find the info when one needs, is the hard part.
stepinwolf said:P.S. By the way Barry, filling stuff away in the back of your mind is good, I do it myself regulary, but to be able to find the info when one needs, is the hard part.
JohnZ said:I've only done this once (mating a body to a new frame it wasn't born with), and started with three shims at each mount location, pretty much following Bob's procedure - finding loose or tight shim packs and adjusting, and spent a lot of time with the #3 and #4 mounts to get parallel door gaps (it was a convertible). Worked out fine, just tedious. Don't forget the rad support mounts if you have a new frame - take the "droop" stress off the bottom of the rad support and shim the resultant gaps at the top of the frame horns as necessary (they were welded in place on the line).
kobi67 said:I can't wait to get started. Thanks for the info.. I guess I will have to buy some beer and invite about 10 guys for a body lifting party. Beer only after the body is back on... Thanks again.. Kurt
To much Help,Is worse than not enough!!:W :W Rather be by myself than too much Help!! I want it Right not Right Now!! I'll Getter Done!! junk!!stepinwolf said:Kurt
Personally, I would recommend any type of lifting, or lowering system, other then have a dozen or so friends, all trying to sit the body down in the right place, at the same time. Better to go slow, one or two looking out for clearance, and keep everyone on tap for the next party. Too many do-gooders don't always get it right. :argue
My two cents
Stepinwolf