Re: '65 F100 SWB - yes another Crown Vic swap
Posted: December 12, 2017, 8:28 am
This topic is about replacing the chassis on a 1965 Ford F100 and swapping it with a 1996 Buick Roadmaster, this is a complete chassis swap including drive train and electrical, basically a body swap, keywords...... Ford F-100, Roadmaster, Chassis, Swap, Crown Vic, I'm adding this text to help with SEO (search engine optimization) so the thread - topic is more easily found from a google search.
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Tear down (part 4)
The end of the Roadmaster....
Saturday was one of those A&E days, both of us wanted the RM down to a bare chassis by the end of the day so at 8am I started back in on tearing the dash out in a hour or so it looked like this...
And in a few more hours it looked like this....
While I was pulling the dash, steering column, HVAC out, my wife was removing the trailer hitch and all the body bolts, by lunch it was down to the basic shell just sitting on the frame so we tossed around where and how we would cut the body up to get it off the frame. The problem was that the RM body rapped around (kinda') the frame rails on both sides at the rockers and while it could be cut with a sawsall I was not to sure about using the plasma cutter in those areas because the body (rockers) were really close to the frame and I didn't want to take the chance of damaging them.
After about a half hour of looking and planning we decided to ask our friend Ryan for another favor....lol
It was a better plan to lift the body off in one piece and in the end it was a 10 minuet job of plucking it off the chassis.
We rolled it outside and in a few minuets Ryan showed up with one of his loaders and a couple chains....plucked the body off and set it out of the way.
This probably saved us several hours of work and the hassle of trying to get the pieces out of the shop and in a location that wasn't blocking the doorway. we did that with the CV and once out on the rock driveway it was almost impossible to move the pieces of the body on the rocks, I can't thank Ryan enough for taking the time to help.....I owe him a few beers.lol
So by 2pm this is what we had....
Here's a few pics of the chassis without the body in-case anyone is interested...
So Sunday we started on the mock up, and tomorrow I'll start that post......
Jon
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Tear down (part 4)
The end of the Roadmaster....
Saturday was one of those A&E days, both of us wanted the RM down to a bare chassis by the end of the day so at 8am I started back in on tearing the dash out in a hour or so it looked like this...
And in a few more hours it looked like this....
While I was pulling the dash, steering column, HVAC out, my wife was removing the trailer hitch and all the body bolts, by lunch it was down to the basic shell just sitting on the frame so we tossed around where and how we would cut the body up to get it off the frame. The problem was that the RM body rapped around (kinda') the frame rails on both sides at the rockers and while it could be cut with a sawsall I was not to sure about using the plasma cutter in those areas because the body (rockers) were really close to the frame and I didn't want to take the chance of damaging them.
After about a half hour of looking and planning we decided to ask our friend Ryan for another favor....lol
It was a better plan to lift the body off in one piece and in the end it was a 10 minuet job of plucking it off the chassis.
We rolled it outside and in a few minuets Ryan showed up with one of his loaders and a couple chains....plucked the body off and set it out of the way.
This probably saved us several hours of work and the hassle of trying to get the pieces out of the shop and in a location that wasn't blocking the doorway. we did that with the CV and once out on the rock driveway it was almost impossible to move the pieces of the body on the rocks, I can't thank Ryan enough for taking the time to help.....I owe him a few beers.lol
So by 2pm this is what we had....
Here's a few pics of the chassis without the body in-case anyone is interested...
So Sunday we started on the mock up, and tomorrow I'll start that post......
Jon