Hello everyone.
Is there any way to get to the top of the frame to paint it and also to replace the body busings without removing the body (some how lift the body once the body mount bushing bolts are removed?)
Also, for my '68 it looks like there are 4 mounts on each side, does this sound correct or am I missing one or two?
Thanks for your help.

I believe there are at least six body mounts and yes you can replace them without removing the body. To paint the top of the frame you will have to remove the body though. I believe Skip put some tips into this web site along time ago about how to replace the body mounts. I do remember someone created a jig for this as well. They also put pictures into this site. Its been a few years ago though you should search the archives.

Yanniz,

I did this on my 70.

I did my chassis in sections. The front first. After removing the suspension, engine, wheel wells etc, I unbolted the two front body mounts. I jacked up the body - did one side at a time here. Put a few small blocks of wood in between the chassis and the body. This gave me room to remove the bushing and get my hand in there for cleaning and painting. Once done I jacked the body up put the new bushing in removed the little blocks of wood, cleaned that little spot and painted it then dropped the body back on the chassis and bolted the mount back up.

When I did the rear section I followed the same idea, except I removed all the body bushings from the door back.

There is a pic on my page that you can see the rear section.

It was time consuming, and a pain in the you know what, but it worked and allowed me to get the room I needed to clean the chassis and the underside of the body that you can only do as a body off. By looking at my car, you would swear it was a body off.

Good luck

Rich

------------------
70 SS - L34
Member # 442
www.chevelles.com/showroom/richr1 (http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/richr1)

http://www.my70ss.com

[This message has been edited by richr (edited 03-21-2001).]

Thanks Rich. That looks pretty darn good.
How did you get the frame and the underbody clean for painting. My '68 is in decent shape, there isn't a lot of rust under there, but there is a bunch of dirt and road 'staff."
Thanks

Yanniz,

I was fortunate as well, very little rust, mostly surface dirt.

I first used all different size scrapers, flexible ones as well, to scrape any loose dirt and grime. Once scraped as clean as I could get it, I used brake cleaner and lacquer thinner. I placed a lot of news paper on the floor. I used around 10 cans of brake cleaner, it works great. The high pressure spray nozzle and extension tip work great in getting the dirt out of the tough areas and little spaces. After that I wiped down everything with lacquer thinner. Lots of rags here.

Once clean I then sanded - I used 80 grit and 100 grit paper, wire brushes both with handles and on the drill, all sizes and then another spraying and wiping with brake cleaner and lacquer thinner.

When all was cleaned I sprayed on some Eastwoods rust remover, mainly to get in spots that were tough and to penetrate any pits the sand paper missed.

Once cleaned and dry I used POR on all the tough areas - between the chassis and wheel well, above the spring towers and inside the spring towers, these areas had some rust, not major, but it was there. When the POR dried to the requirement per their instruction, I primed everything with rust inhibitive primer.

Once the primer dried I sanded with 600 grit, painted the floor area with Eastwoods Under black and the chassis with Eastwoods Chassis black.

I have to say this was a tedious project. Time and patience is everything here.

Hope this helps.

Rich

------------------
70 SS - L34
Member # 442
www.chevelles.com/showroom/richr1 (http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/richr1)

http://www.my70ss.com