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Robert Haas · 12-24-2017, 03:39 PM

One down side to moving the chassis off the frame fixture is we no longer have our benchmarks to build off of. So we broke out the jack stands and leveled the frame using shim stock to withing a tenth of a degree then broke out the laser and set the body lines to as close to perfect as we can.

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we are raising the bed floor just under 6 inches and will be using all new 3" x " 1 .120" wall DOM steel for all the new cross-members

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12-24-2017, 03:39 PM	#139
Robert Haas Registered User Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Salinas Ca. Posts: 625	Re: Two is easier then one 1965 GMC S/W/BB build One down side to moving the chassis off the frame fixture is we no longer have our benchmarks to build off of. So we broke out the jack stands and leveled the frame using shim stock to withing a tenth of a degree then broke out the laser and set the body lines to as close to perfect as we can. we are raising the bed floor just under 6 inches and will be using all new 3" x " 1 .120" wall DOM steel for all the new cross-members