Saturday, February 20, 2010

The body is off!




So today I finally took the body off of the chassis! The hardest part of it all was building those sawhorses so they were heavy duty enough to hold the body! That took a few hours and two trips to the local lumber/hardware store! 2x6 beams make them very strong, and I made them high enough & wide enough to roll the chassis under the body if I need to. After I finally finished the sawhorses a couple of my friends who live close by came over & we lifted the body off & sat it on the sawhorses! I then cleaned up the chassis a little bit with the shop vac and then called it a day. I also received the 18 gauge 1/4 pans to restore the chassis this week. I'm very happy with the progress so far, I hadn't planned on doing much work until it warmed up a bit, but oh well!