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Lifting the body from the frame?

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MadRiver

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Howdy all:

I was crawling around under my Triumph and noticed that the rubber spacers between the body and the frame are pretty badly decomposed after 40 years. I'd appreciate advice on the safest and most effective way to lift the body from the frame to replace these bad boys, without taking the entire car apart!

Thanks as always!

B.
 
Unless the door gaps are out of adjustment, I would leave them as is.

However if you still want to replace them, you will need to unbolt all body to frame fasteners and disconnect the brake and gas lines. Then with a floor jack on a 2x4 or 4x4 cut to fit between the outer floor gussets, up against the back of the rocker, the body, one side at a time can be lifted enough off the frame replace the shims.
 
Some things are better left alone unless the situation becomes critical.

This, I believe, is one of them.
 
I agree leave well enough alone, you've heard of mission creep? If you do proceed disconnecting the fuel/brake lines as well as the steering column and unbolting all of the body to frame mounts should suffice.
 
Like said above, don't fix what aint broke. But if I had to do it, I think I'd loosen all bolts, then just jack the body up an inch or two , one side at a time, sliding the old ones out, and putting the new ones in.
most likely what you'd find is that the outer quarter of an inch of the spacers is all that is really bad, and the bulk of them are fine
 
There stands a chance that your floor pan bolts attaching to the outriggers will be rusted solid -- be ready to heat up 'em up real good, or break them off and have to do a drill out and tap job. Don't screw with it....those pads shim the body and if you go and replace with thicker/thinner new pads, then you're likely to alter the panel gaps and door gaps, creating real problems for you.
 
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