any advice for a newby

[racerdad]

so i am going to pull the body off  this weekend. it is a 34 chevy coupe. it looks like it should come off ok.is there any thing i should know or look out for? is it ok to just sit the body on the ground or do i need to build some thing to sit it on.
thanks cody

[VMS Motorsports]

There isn't much to support the weight of the body, just the 6-8" of flat fiberglass in front of and behind the doors. Good chance of it cracking when you put it on the ground. My bodies go on a 55 gal drum with an old tire on top. Can stay there all year round, yet easy to slide out of the way

[665AlmostEvil]

We use an old shopping cart with two strait rails that are hose clamped across the top.

[apexvinyltx]

Drum and a tire here. Works well.

[Bigmil]

I built a frame out of 2x4's and put castors on the bottom.  It allowed me to work on the body and chassis seperatly all winter long.  Only cost me about $20 to build.

[racerdad]

so to day i was taking the car apart and i found some thing that i do not think is wright. the rear end in the car is a dual plate for the 3 link and the heims are on the out side of  the plates with a spacer in between the plates. i think i know the answaer but should the heim be in between the plates?
thanks cody

[justfreaky]

Yes. That is why it is double shear. Heims go in betwen the plates. Someone may have been fooling around with the angle or something trying to rectify whatever problem they were having. Wrong way to go about it.

Steve

[knoxracing]

The arms were placed on the outside for the following reason.  Some shops want the trailing arm bars to be straight or as close to staright as possible. The reason is if the bars are angled into the factory positions, the rear end geometry will change when the rear squats. If there is angle to the bars the housing will move a little forward or backwards under acceleration. I have been through cars from every major set up shop. They all run them in diffferent positions.

[racerdad]

knoxracng what do you think should they be inside or out side the brackets. i would think that it would be a weak link on the out side. does it make enough of a diffrents to take te chance of braking or bending? thanks cody

[Winterracing]

I'd say inside, since if your going to run them on the outside you might as well save the money and go with the single shear instead of the double

Dan
www.winterracing.net

[knoxracing]

Yes  a single shear on the bottom and double on the top is a popular option. The real point is they have placed the arms in this position to achieve a certain geometry.