OK, guys-I've been driving my 73 for a few years with a flexing frame--the door gaps open and close alarmingly while driving. I know that the trailing arm sections are pretty bad (there's a coupla pieces of (1/4") steel plate sandwiching the frame at the point that the trailing arms mount.), and I suspect that the area under the t-shirt is bad, too--that would explain most of the flex.
I see that the trailing arm sections (TRF lists them, Moss lists 'repair section'?) and the t-shirt plates (TRF, Moss) are available.
It's my intention to pull the body off the frame and see what's really going on.
So--Following along in Justin's thread The start of something big most of the work looks pretty straight forward--but is the trailing arm replacement equally straightforward? It looks like most of the frame is 'flat', so the replacement sections could be set up and verified, with a level, pretty easily.
Any thoughts, cautions, warnings?
I see that the trailing arm sections (TRF lists them, Moss lists 'repair section'?) and the t-shirt plates (TRF, Moss) are available.
It's my intention to pull the body off the frame and see what's really going on.
So--Following along in Justin's thread The start of something big most of the work looks pretty straight forward--but is the trailing arm replacement equally straightforward? It looks like most of the frame is 'flat', so the replacement sections could be set up and verified, with a level, pretty easily.
Any thoughts, cautions, warnings?