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Body Off

Okies so i had the motor out and i was stumped on how to get it into pieces (another post with the solution to come), so i decided to keep going on the car. I told my father about taking the body off the pan and he wanted to do it so i thought why the hell not.

Built a jig to hold the body off the ground (may need to build a better one at one stage with wheels.)

Car on the jig about to drop, There are 2 bolts on the back near the shockers, 4 inside above where the battery sits, another 18 or so bolts under the heater channels along each side (make sure you check i didnt and alomost ended up foo-bared). and 2 at the front under the tank.

Tank out, good idea before you take it out to try and get as much petrol out, with a syphon .. dont use your mouth as my father found out haha.

Up / Down she goes, a bit of creaking and scary bits but over all was good.

There we go up in the air totally ready to roll the pan out.

Normally they would sit good but i found the automatic tanks tended to get in the way, so i took them off.

And she is out, almost didnt clear the (seriously cleared with about 1mm clearence) jiggs, (so make it a bit higher than 80cm.)

More to come.

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Removing glass & trim.

Well i think i did this before i removed the engine but i only just rememeberd it. I found info on this part scarce as well. I actually ordered new rubbers with the chrome trim from west coast metric, fast shipping from the US by fedEx so its trackable, and fairly good prices.

So thats the back window (I didnt take pics of the front or the side woops but its all the same)

MY father had this super duper tool to cut rubber, it cut the rubber and didnt scratch the glass. As i didnt need to keep the seals i just cut parralell to the glass and after a few cuts the rubber came out and the glass was removable, i would suggest having two people here as you dont really want to smash the glass (its been 40 years and it doesnt even have a chip).

Front window out

Side window out.

Now for the headlining removal i took a video explaining what i did and what i found, as again i couldnt see to much of this documented.

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And thats it really for this post

Thats behind the seat removal