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Help with Mounting dart body on tube chassis #1851425
06/17/15 11:06 PM
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Any dart guys have pictures of how you mounted your bodies on to a tube chassis? Or any advice would be great. I've thought about making brackets to bolt the body on so it could be removed if needed.

Re: Help with Mounting dart body on tube chassis [Re: crooksduster] #1851447
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So do you have a used chassis or you building one? normally the chassis has other mounting points other than the 4 at the rockers. Mine has welded mounts at the A pillar and rear door area to the cage. I suppose they also could be fabbed to unbolt,


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Re: Help with Mounting dart body on tube chassis [Re: crooksduster] #1851474
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I have 6 mounting points on my P-Body... 1 at the front of
the sill and 1 at the back of the sill on each side... the 2 at the back
of the car... they all bolt on... I got done building a chassis
for a Duster last year. I did the same mounting
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Re: Help with Mounting dart body on tube chassis [Re: crooksduster] #1851539
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It's jimmy's old chassis. Has already had a dart body on it.

Re: Help with Mounting dart body on tube chassis [Re: crooksduster] #1851549
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Originally Posted By crooksduster
It's jimmy's old chassis. Has already had a dart body on it.
See if you can get to look at the old body or get pictures of how it was mounted on your chassis up twocentsNo sense in reinventing what has already been done work Good luck, let us know what you do up


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Re: Help with Mounting dart body on tube chassis [Re: crooksduster] #1853017
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Putting the tube chassis in to the car body is not a easy task, most of the time the cage is built wider than the rocker panels so you have to wedge it on [spread the bottom of the car } to drop it on, Then before you do any welding, put the doors on to make sure they close and fit properly. Hope you have a 2 post car lift, some friends with crow bars. Ask me how I know that.


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Re: Help with Mounting dart body on tube chassis [Re: rowin4] #1853101
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mabey if you can get a hold of Jimmy he might have some pics. shruggy







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