Sunday 16 June 2013

Undressing Bessie Part II

Yes, we're still taking her apart. The next step in her disassembly was to remove the body from the frame. The body was held on the frame with total of 14 bolts. Having gotten wiser from the efforts with the door hinge bolts we decided to use the impact wrench for the frame bolts. To everyone's surprise 13 of the bolts came of fairly easily and only 1 got sheared.




After the bolts were off and we were sure that there wasn't anything else attached between her body and frame we could finally separate the body from the frame. The car was already on jack stands so now we only had to lower the frame and let the body stay on the jack stands.


Frame coming off

After the frame was lowered we rolled it from under the body and straight to the other garage lot.

The body on jack stands
Pulling.

Pushing.

Next we will start stripping the paint off her body and do some other body work.