7 November
Today was the day for the body to come off. I rolled the car outside onto the drive. I hooked up the engine hoist to the lifting chains and ran some straps front and rear to help keep it level. I took the weight of the body with the hoist then put a jack under the rear end and undid the last 2 nuts on the rear subframe. Then repeated this at the front, everything was ready to lift the car. A friend helped me to monitor the other side of the car as it lifted and then up it went. The body lifted nice and easy, no problems, once it was high enough to clear the engine, we pulled it sideways with the engine hoist and put it down on to some heavy duty saw horses. These were rated to hold over 600KG so easily held the bodyshell. The powertrain skate was rolled back in to the garage. With the body on the saw horses, and still attached to the hoist, I removed the fuel tank and the handbrake from under the bodywork. Watch your head on the rear subframe studs, they are pointed and can be very painful if you catch yourself on them, I know..... Probably a good idea to slip a bit of rubber hose of them just in case. The fuel tank is held in place by 4 bolts and a sort of hook arrangement on the nearside, so you have to undo the bolts and support the tank while you lift the nearside of the tank over the hook thing. I drilled out the rivets holding the vin plate on the front firewall and also cut out the VIN stamped on the front firewall (next to where the VIN plate was) and also on the rear of the offside door opening. I cut the front brake pipe brackets off the front chassis rails, they will be sent to Andy to be welded on the new chassis. I undid all the clips holding the brake and fuel lines from the car and retained them. I pulled out the fuel lines and fuel filter. Then I checked around and undid a few other things that might come in useful (odd brackets and clips) or that I want to sell (wiper motor, ABS pump).
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