Thread: Body removal and swap Discovery 2

Originally Posted by johntins

Motivation is the key to that one. The car is for parts/wrecking but I don’t want to damage anything unnecessarily, but I’ll probably have to cut the body up as I don’t have anything to lift it off in one piece.

I suppose I’ll have to de-gas the AC.

Hmm....

Yes to de gassing the AC. As for lifting it of in one piece. Once the bits have all been disconnected, you could jack up say the rear, with a jack at each corner. set on blocks, Jack up the front, set on blocks. Jack up 10cms at a time. It is how houses are levelled and re blocked. Eventually the body will be high enough and hopefully not wobbly enough to allow the chassis to be pushed out of the way. Then slowly lower the body on to wooden blocks.

I'm thinking of going down this road.

BUT what about the VIN on the dash between windscreen. Dealing with this at the RTA would ruin my day


Also, I'm assuming a '03 2A body on a '99 chassis would still work?