Thread: How to lift a body to remove chassis?

Originally Posted by Scouse

There's more than enough to give you a hand up Newy way too.

We could have a day on Stockton Beach then come around & lift the body off with you .

it will be happening the week of the 5th April but don't know when. it will hopefully be done by the weekend but it will be a couple of days.i want to give the body and chassis a good clean, paint/ rustproof(any favorite rustproof products?) i do have my old man and two mates to help so i should be ok. But i'm deffinatly up for a trip to stockton,(missed the last trip on account of work). unfortunately even after the body swap i still have a bit of work to do before she is bush ready,(shock mounts and spring retainers, possibly bump stops as well) but she should be ok for beach if anyone was planing to go on that weekend.

Adam

Originally Posted by barry2

I swapped a chassis in a 1982 4 door R.Rover about 15 years ago, in my car port.
From memory,(I haven't looked at the pictures for ages), I jacked it up only a few inches and used 4 axle stands under the body sills- one at each end.I removed the entire rear axle and replaced it with a trolley jack supporting the rear x'member.I removed the front springs to lower the chassis onto the bump stops, replacing the front wheels with some spares I had without tyres on ,which lowered the chassis even more.
Removed all fixings of body to chassis including radiator, grill etc and then slowly withdrew the chassis with engine and transmission still attached out from under the body in a forwards direction, I remember the chassis clearing the body by millimeters only.
The only lifting I did was to remove the engine and trans. together as a unit to place into the replacement chassis and slide it back under the body.
A reversal of the disconnection process and the vehicle was back on a trip out west after 5 weekends of work from start to finish.
I remember talking to people about it before I started, and no one had done it like this before- they had all used a 2 post hoist in a proper workshop.

And i remember helping you with this,i couldn't beleive how smoothly the change over went

Mother wasn't real happy,though, as it was her carport,all clutered with bits of LR's & RR's,as was her backyard, in suburban Sunnybank