Going to do a body swap, looking for advice

[dyeager535]

I don't think that is a bad way to do it, obviously you'd strap the body and lumber down well.

Only issue I could potentially see is bending anything on the body that is resting on the 4x4's. Thats an earlier body, and if completely stripped probably not as much of a concern, but if it ends up resting on any pinch welds you may end up bending them, if you care.

 

[mofugly13]

Sounds like a fun idea, anyway, but then I enjoy crazy stuff like this.

More usefully, gonna need you some loooong ratcheting straps to hold that thing down.

How stripped is the carcass, i.e. is it just the tub, tub with top, any of the interior in there, stuff attached to the firewall or not?

-- A

It is stripped bare. It's just a tub. Well, I think the taillight housings may still be on there.

When I get the tub home, I have visions of swapping everything over and then going for a ride, but here's what's going to really happen:

1.Tub comes home, on sawhorses in the driveway
2.Log onto CK5 "Should I rhinoline the interior?" "What other rust proofing steps can I take?<---do that stuff
3. Well gee, while I have the dash completely stripped, I might as well make the heating/air ducting/controls work like they're supposed to. (Search classifieds for interior parts/trips to pick-n-pull, etc.)
4. Try to install the tachometer cluster that's been sitting in my garage for years. Make it all work with the brushed aluminum dash bezel from some unknown year C/K model truck.
5. Rebuild the doors I got from Surpip eight or so years ago, log onto CK5 "Is it possible to paint these rattle can flat black doors to match the sweet canary yellow paint on the body?"<---do that stuff, depending on funds
6. Do the same with my 91 front clip which is currently painted gold
7. Put it all together

I hope I can have it done by August

 

[Rugby_7]

I just recently did this a couple months ago. Picked up a bare rust free tub. Three other guys and I loaded it up on a flat bed trailer. We set it on its rocker boxes and stacked a couple pallets and a spare tire under where the gas tank would be and strapped it down. Drove it to my garage and 4 of us lifted it off the trailer and set it on 2 4x4's on top of blocks. I've been working on cleaning up the underside to coat. The body isn't that heavy just awkward to carry, wear gloves.

 

[mofugly13]

I picked up the tub yesterday. For future reference, if anyone is wondering what it takes to lift a tub on an absolutely bare (except for the windshield) 73-75 body, the balance point is right about at the B-pillars. Once I had it home on the trailer. I strapped it around the body and pushed the strap back as close to the b-pillars as I could get it. Then picked it with an engine hoist. The weight is still a little bit toward the bed, but it was a simple matter to lift it with the hoist and have a helper at the bed to lift a bit and maneuver the body.

Thebody is not quite 'rust-free', but all the rust is repairable, I think.