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03-26-2015 08:15 AM #14
Time to update my build. Cold temp's chased me out of the garage for a few weeks. But I'm back at it again.
I built the wheeled body frame. The cars body is now on an adjustable wheeled frame. This way I can move it around. Removed the front end and rear end. Now the frame sits on 2 modified furniture dollies. This way I can move anything anywhere to work on what I need.
While I was at it, I built a cart for my mig welder.
Cost me 2 2x4's. I had everything else lying around.
I've been knocking the rust off of the frame with a wire wheel on my grinder. Getting the frame ready to take to the sandblaster. Hope to get it there by next week.
As I was getting ready today to weld on some temporary cross braces. I checked the frame for squareness. I leveled the frame front to back and side to side. It's perfect. But....Here's what I don't understand. The c-channel Is different top to bottom. The frame is level front to back, side to side, and the sides are level too. But when I went to measure for the cross bracing, I noticed the top and bottom lips are different widths.The bottom lip is 3/16" smaller than the top. Except at the front horns up to where the body mounts. Is this normal? In the pic's below I moved the tube steel to show the difference.
In the immortal words of Socrates..."I drank what?"
We managed to get a couple of other small things taken care of. One was blacking out the front of the core support. When the sun hit the front of the car just right that green paint on the core...
1968 Plymouth Valiant 1st Gen HEMI