coming along nicely!! I need a shop space like yours!!
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I does make this type of project a lot more enjoyable.
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Picked up the steel body mount brackets from the fabrication shop this morning. I then spent the rest of the day working to get the body placed perfectly on the chassis. There are a bunch of critical dimensions to pay attention to when putting a body on a chassis that has no reference points. I temporarily bolted on the front clip with the radiator to establish the fan centered in the shroud. Then spent several hours shimming and adjusting the body to get everything just right. I still need to make a few minor adjustments tomorrow but then should be able to start tacking the mounts to the chassis so the body can come off one last time to fully weld out all 12 mounts. The shop built the rear mount incorrectly but a quick notch with a cut off wheel saved the parts and keeps me moving forward.
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Got the body fixed to the chassis today with all the body mounts welded on . Also completed the fuel tank hook up to all of the new tubing. Found an interesting thing on the 80 series chassis that I did not know. It appears as the upper attachment for the panhard bar is different from a 94 to a 97 80 series. I was scratching my head trying to figure out why the rear axle was offset to the passenger side then realized the panhard appears to slightly different lengths between the years due to the offset in the upper attachment.