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CuriousGeorge

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All the recent talk and pics about frame work has me wondering, can you actually remove the frame from the tub without taking EVERYTHING apart? What would NEED to be done to replace the frame? I was assuming I had to disassemble the car entirely, now I'm hoping I may not have to. Thanks for any advice, great forum guys!
 
DONT DO IT--DONT DO IT---DONT DO IT

I bought a running TRA about 17 years ago and took it totally apart to make a "show car". Then bought a business and wife had a baby and here I am 17 years later trying to start over again. Wish I had just gone forward with finishing it out and enjoyed it for the last 17 years. Its amazing how hard it is to find everything even when I thought I did a good job of organizing. But after moving it around 3 times stuff gets lost.

Did I mention DONT DO IT

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CuriousGeorge said:
All the recent talk and pics about frame work has me wondering, can you actually remove the frame from the tub without taking EVERYTHING apart?...
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"Don't do it" advice (and good advice it might well be) notwithstanding, the short answer is YES. In fact, many of the earlier TRs, up through the TR4 at least, were "built" that way: complete, painted and trimmed bodies were done up offsite and then united with completely built chassis in the Coventry factory!

The real caveat is to get a factory workshop manual, which will tell you exactly what to disconnect or remove, as well as how to lift (and brace, as needed) the complete body.
 
At the tech sessions we have at the Long Island Triumph Association, done at RATCO's facility, we can get the body off the frame of a TR in about two hours...with about six of us working. You don't have to disassemble the whole car. As Andy mentioned, the service manual will tell you what you need to take off. The biggest hurdle might be lifting it off. At Ratco, we use a ceiling mounted electric hoist, but I did it using an engine crane in my garage.
 
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