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Remove Body Mount Bolts

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GMT400 Suburban Frame Off Build: Body Removal & Getting Ready for Frame Paint! (What To Remove)

What happens here

The body is held to the frame by body mounts. The creator identifies two body mounts at the rear of the vehicle that were previously obstructed by the fuel tank. He sprays them with WD-40. He and his assistant then use impact drivers to remove all the body mount bolts, working systematically around the vehicle. The last body mount bolt proves to be difficult, requiring significant effort and a large breaker bar.

Goal: Release the body from the frame by removing all body mount bolts

Tools and materials

  • Body Mount Bolts — Fasteners securing the body to the frame
  • Breaker Bar — Providing extra leverage for stubborn bolts
  • Milwaukee Impact Driver Milwaukee — Removing body mount bolts
  • Penetrating Oil WD-40 — Loosening rusted body mount bolts
  • Safety Glasses — Protecting eyes from debris
  • Sockets — To fit the body mount bolts

What they say

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going to die it's a good thing we decided to take the tank out before lifting the body because there's two body mounts here that are kind of obstructed by the gas tank which I didn't know about before cuzz I went through and sprayed WD40 on what I thought was all of them and these ones are dry so I didn't know they were there that's how I know that's how I know I didn't know I don't know if this is going to help at all but I'm going to do it anyway cuz it make me feel better the sub harness here this one had like a little T in here to intercept the light signals for a a toe plug which is nice there's a harness that runs the length of here one splits off to the fuel pump and then the rest of it keeps going back here ends right here which one of inside in here the other one went into there and the other side the body part is right here which has all the lights and then this one was for the plate lights this little thingy right here you can see where they go that's always handy and this runs right up to here into this harness half of it goes this way other half goes this way you can see it runs right up there it goes boom into that tail light and the other one goes into here for that one I don't see anything else that we have to disconnect to lift the body off besides the mount bolts also we're going to put a 9 and 1/2 in 14 bolt reand in here which is the same one that the Escalade has but we're going to find one from like a heavy half ton or either like a heavy half ton or a lightweight 3/4 ton so it would be a 2500 with six lug axles or like a heavy duty half ton I don't know either way we'll put a true track in it and uh I already have a diff cover for it that I got for the esade and then it didn't fit behind the panor bar so I was like oh let's keep it and use it on future BB four years later here we are I mean I thought stuff was going to fall out but I wasn't ready for like all dinosaurs I am so glad we bought this thing cuz cranking that by hand would be here for hours you know it's bad when this thing is [Music] [Applause] stumped you this the nastiest one I was going to set up a time lapse maybe we should film up close for this cuz you never know when you're going to get surprised like that look at my hair yeah you never know if you didn't thumbs up this video already you should just cuz she's a beast [Music] oh that was a big one good job by the way thank you do you feel accomplished so accomplished much heavier and look at that you just go right…

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