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This is a dirty job but someone's got to do it
Cleaning 40 years of crud from under the body is a very dirty job. Especially without the use of a nice rotisserie body dolly. Since my dolly doesn't rotate, I pretty much got all the crud in my face as I took it off with my grinder with wire wheel attachment and then the sand blaster. Here's what it looked like under there before I began.
I used a normal 7" grinder with a couple different wire wheel attachments to clean up the underbody. The first pic shows under the rear axle area after wire brushing but before sandblasting. Of course if I was building a show car, I would have sandblasted the entire underbody. However, this is just a clean STREET cruiser so I didn't think the extra work was needed.
Self etching primer was sprayed over the bare metal, just like on the frame.
Finally the body was paint matched to the frame and the rest of the body.
Finally the body was ready to be put back on the frame nearly a year later. First step was to get the body off of the dolly that I made for it.
We put the body of the car up in the air to roll the chassis underneath. You can see the new body mounts on the frame in first couple of pics. We didn't have the body up high enough and as you can see in the pics, the rear cylinders would not clear.
So, we had to do some dangerous jacking on the 4x4s to get the body high enough. Once up, the cylinders barely cleared and we were able to get the frame under the body.
Once the frame was under the body, we lowered it down on the frame. It was a close, tight fit and we had to really tweak the body around a lot to get it slide onto the frame.
Here it is, finally back on the frame. The last pic was in the dark, but I wanted to see my chrome blower housing on the body.
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