Jul 16 2009
Body On Frame
Although it felt better in the heat of the shop during the build, I’m paying for wearing only a short sleeve shirt during all of that welding.
All that’s left in the front is to weld up a flat bracket on the cross-member for the motor mount to bolt through. Once motor is mounted with the frame sitting at "ride stance", the proper height of the tranny mount can be determined placing a level on the intake manifold and a jack under the tailshaft. As you probably know, the carbs have to be level for the floats to work right and this will be the done by trans mount location.
Once the drive-line angle is dictated (again, from the tranny mount) you’re able to determine the rear-end pinion angle and drive-shaft length. From there it’s just one relaxing, fun time after another of nuts, bolts, lines & wiring.
The body isn’t sitting on any mounts yet because I think the owner is still considering enough of a channel-job to hide the rails, but that’ll be dictated by his interior room comfort level. I think he’s in the thought process of sitting in it & trying it on "as-is" since we delivered it back to his hangar. (Maybe even making "Vroom, Vroom" noises 8-) )
Whichever way he goes with the channel will really have nothing to do with the running-gear work already mentioned and can be done at his leisure.
and a few more pics in The Gallery.
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