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Correct Car Body Alignment

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72 LSA Monte Carlo Boom Tube NASCAR Exhaust FIRST DRIVE! (Fab Process & Finishing Touches)

What happens here

With the car on the lift, use wooden dowel rods to check the alignment of the body relative to the frame. The dowel rods should pass freely through corresponding alignment holes in both the body and frame. Discovering a significant misalignment, loosen all body mount bolts. Position a heavy-duty ratchet strap to connect a sturdy point on the rear body (e.g., a seat belt bolt, if necessary) to the frame. Carefully tighten the strap to pull the body into alignment. Use the dowel rods again to confirm that the body and frame alignment holes now match, then re-tighten all body mount bolts.

Goal: Align the car's body squarely with its frame.

Tools and materials

  • Ratchet Strap Vulcan — Pulling the body into alignment
  • Wooden Dowel Rods — Checking body-to-frame alignment
  • Wrench Set — Loosening and tightening body mount bolts

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test this and see how it works. The next day, the current project is to deal with the crooked body, something I've avoided doing for 6 years since it became crooked. Um, basically what we need to do, from what I've read, is there are two holes to align with these little grooves here. See? I don't know if you can see it there, but there's ...there's a hole in the body that should line up with this hole. So, you take a 5/8 inch rod, you put it in there, and that's how you know when the body is where it should be on the frame. I mean, there's another one just like it here. There. Do you see this? Yes. If I can't show you at the right angle of light, you probably won't see it, but I can shine a flashlight there and see that it's offset. If I had a 5/8 rod, it would n't fit in there. So I rummaged through the trash outside and found a piece of rod that appears to be 5/8 inch in diameter, and it fits the hole in the frame, but not the hole in the body. The problem is that I need another one just like it to do both at the same time, and a little longer so we can hold it in place more easily. So let's go outside to the scrap bin and see if we can find something similar, but longer. I must have disturbed the wasp because it wasn't going to leave me alone. So, let's just go to the store and get everything we need. Ahem. I don't want to mess around there. There are a lot of them there. Os. Yes. Yes, I noticed. So, we got what we needed. A 5/8-inch wooden dowel, plus a bunch of other things, like, you know, pegboard hooks, all sorts of things that you need but don't want to look for. And, of course, Garudi, a blue thermos that looks like a can, but is actually a cherry limeade. This is my favorite. But look at this hardware store. It looks like some kind of backwoods in the Carolinas. In fact, it's not far from where we are now. There is a gas station, a hardware store, and a full grocery store. And I mean, not just like a hardware store. Like, there's something there. This is a full-fledged hardware store. And there isn't even a wall there. It just goes: goods, goods, goods, goods, and then a full-fledged grocery store. So, it's like Although there are no chickens there. Damn it. Sounds like Rural King. Does anyone know what Rural King is? I used to go shopping there when I lived in Pennsylvania, but Rural King didn't have a gas station. And here it is. And they even had cans of VP racing fuel, because people in North Carolina race everywhere. Let's get started. Here…

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