frame swap advice needed
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Cruising
Joined: Dec 2011
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From: Miami Florida
frame swap advice needed
I have recently purchased a 1980 Corvette, upon closer inspection it seems the chassis is in realy bad shape. I found a realy good replacement and I was wondering if any one knows of any good books that can assist me on this endeaver. I purchased a 1980 corvette shop manual today off ebay and I am not realy sure if this will help me complete the task. any recomendations will be greatly apreciated.
thank you.
thank you.
Le Mans Master
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From: Watkins Glen NY
The best advice I can give is to locate and start soaking your body mount bolts today, and keep soaking them daily for a week or more.
If you crawl under the car with a small flashlight, you should just barely be able to see the bolts where they comes through the body and thread into a captured nut at the #2 and #3 body mount locations (under the kick panels and just forward of the rear wheels). Of all the bolts you need to remove, these will be the most problematic. Spray PB blaster or similar at these spots; not from the top at the bolt heads, to get them to loosen up a bit easier.
Its a PITA when these bolts break the captured nut free and start spinning, or when your sockets slip and round off a rusty bolt head that didn't want to loosen up to begin with
If you crawl under the car with a small flashlight, you should just barely be able to see the bolts where they comes through the body and thread into a captured nut at the #2 and #3 body mount locations (under the kick panels and just forward of the rear wheels). Of all the bolts you need to remove, these will be the most problematic. Spray PB blaster or similar at these spots; not from the top at the bolt heads, to get them to loosen up a bit easier.
Its a PITA when these bolts break the captured nut free and start spinning, or when your sockets slip and round off a rusty bolt head that didn't want to loosen up to begin with
Thread Starter
Cruising
Joined: Dec 2011
Posts: 13
Likes: 0
From: Miami Florida
The best advice I can give is to locate and start soaking your body mount bolts today, and keep soaking them daily for a week or more.
If you crawl under the car with a small flashlight, you should just barely be able to see the bolts where they comes through the body and thread into a captured nut at the #2 and #3 body mount locations (under the kick panels and just forward of the rear wheels). Of all the bolts you need to remove, these will be the most problematic. Spray PB blaster or similar at these spots; not from the top at the bolt heads, to get them to loosen up a bit easier.
Its a PITA when these bolts break the captured nut free and start spinning, or when your sockets slip and round off a rusty bolt head that didn't want to loosen up to begin with
If you crawl under the car with a small flashlight, you should just barely be able to see the bolts where they comes through the body and thread into a captured nut at the #2 and #3 body mount locations (under the kick panels and just forward of the rear wheels). Of all the bolts you need to remove, these will be the most problematic. Spray PB blaster or similar at these spots; not from the top at the bolt heads, to get them to loosen up a bit easier.
Its a PITA when these bolts break the captured nut free and start spinning, or when your sockets slip and round off a rusty bolt head that didn't want to loosen up to begin with
