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seventy4burban
03-01-2025, 12:00 PM
Anybody have a guestimate of the frame weight without the engine/transmission installed.......Trying to decide if I should tempt fate
82DMC12
03-01-2025, 12:04 PM
The frame all by itself, no chassis, suspension, nothing?

It's like 240lbs

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seventy4burban
03-01-2025, 01:48 PM
Oh that's child's Play

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82DMC12
03-01-2025, 02:08 PM
Oh that's child's Play

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Two people can pretty easily pick it up and move it around. It's mostly hollow. I suggest getting a furniture dolly from Harbor Freight, that makes it very easy to move about.
seventy4burban
03-01-2025, 02:35 PM
Well it would have the tires on it but good to know a simple 1000 pond dolly would work

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seventy4burban
03-01-2025, 08:03 PM
Yeah I'm committed now......I come this far might as well drop it and work it over.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250302/c9f1121c40ccae014ad64b35247c2223.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250302/c9461444264e59223a1cca3015646111.jpg

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82DMC12
03-01-2025, 08:18 PM
Might as well, the hardest part of disconnecting the rest of the car from the frame is probably the A/C lines at the evaporator, they can be pretty seized up if you're an unlucky person. If you don't have a lift, you're going to have to use bricks and 6x6 beams outboard of the body to lift it above the chassis because the wheels are going to hit the jackstands as you have them placed currently. I don't recommend using 4x4 beams, that is what I used and after a couple months they were starting to crack. Either use a 6x6 or three 2x6 bolted together.
seventy4burban
03-01-2025, 08:23 PM
I think I'm going to just forget the wheels all together. AC lines won't be a problem already been in those once before

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82DMC12
03-01-2025, 08:41 PM
Don't forget we have a body-frame separation checklist here -

https://dmctalk.org/showthread.php?14602-How-To-Body-and-Frame-Separation-Checklist&p=280915&viewfull=1#post280915
seventy4burban
03-01-2025, 08:42 PM
It's being used for sure..

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seventy4burban
03-02-2025, 07:56 PM
Well checklist completed only thing left is the bolts holding the frame to the body.....

Don't ask how I'm lowering the frame cause my only response is use the force Luke

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