Well, health, family, and travel have taken it's toll on my time, but I'm back at it...
Time to mount the body back on the chassis, and I chose to do it by lifting the chassis up to the body, starting at the rear, and bolting the back end on at the rear most body mounts, then lifting the front, bolting that, then putting in the rest of the bolts. It went pretty smoothly....
It's been sitting like this for some time now, while I completely went through the chassis, and rebuilt the floors, trunk and did the "mini-tubs"....
With jacks under the front of the chassis as well, I was able to pinch the 4x4, lift it up off the steel sawhorses, set the edges of the rear of the body on sawhorses, and remove the 4x4. Then lift the rear of the chassis, aligning the two rear mounting bolts, it all clicked together like magic....
If you look carefully you can see the left rear body mount bolt above, I was able to guide the rear of the chassis so those two rear bolts dropped right into the mounts...
The rear is fitting up just like it's supposed to, somethings gotta be going wrong here, it can't be that easy ???
Used an engine hoist to lift the front of the chassis up as it needed to go higher than my floor jacks would handle, it all went smooth...
Stuck the front body mount bolts in loosely with nuts, and put it all on jack stands to install the rest of the body mount bolts...
It all went together surprisingly easy and I 'm quite happy with the fit of the rear axle, wheels and tubs...
More later,
Aloha,
Willy
More pix here...