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My
daughter removed the rocker panels. The panel is in two parts, and it is tricky
to get off. There are tiny nuts behind the body panels, so you have to use a
screwdriver with a wrench slipped in between the frame and the body panel.
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The steering linkage had to be loosened, and the couplings
separated, to clear for the lift-off.
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It
took the gas cap lid trip off to prevent the boot from snagging when we
lift the body. It is just four easy screws. |
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My
youngest daughter is removing the right rear wheel in order to get access to the
number three mount (in front of the rear wheel well).
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Fortunately she was able to pry the rusted access plate off
easily. In the second picture you can see the head of the mounting bolt. The
bolt came out easily on both sides, even though you only get one or two clicks
on the ratchet due to the narrow opening.
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What brain trust put frame-to-body mounts where they will be sprayed
directly by whatever residue the elements can offer the tires?
This bolt head snapped off clean. This was the right side, which turned
out to be the easy side. |
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The left side broke a 5/8" socket, and then the bolt corners
rounded off. This is what is left of the bolt after I cut the head off.
Thank goodness it was a Craftsman socket. You may want to consider an
impact socket for these bolts. I am not looking forward to fixing these
broken mounting bolts. |
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The
inside front frame mounts are behind the speakers in front of the door. These
came out easily, and since the bolts were inside a body panel they were in good
shape.
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I knew I took that trim off for a reason. To gain access to the front
frame mount bolts (at the front bottom of the firewall) this funky
shaped cover had to come off. The mounting bolts for the cover were
under the rocker trim.
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The rear bumpers came off easily,
too easily. I think that due to the difficulty of getting the bumpers
aligned and shimmed properly, someone took shortcuts. It will be some
work to do it correctly during the reassembly. The rear filler panel
seam had been filled in. I started to undo the work, and then decided to
attempt the lift-off with the filler panel in place |
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The exhaust tips and trim
half-rings around them were removed. The trim rings were barely holding
on due to striped out holes. This is where I found evidence of a rear
collision. |
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I was going to leave the spare carrier in because I knew I would
be short on storage space, but I tired of working around it, and took it out. |
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Electrical connections in the back were limited to some
harness-to-frame ground wires. |
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The shift lever knob unscrews to allow removal of the reverse
lockout rod and return spring. The spring is small (in comparison to the rest of
the parts on the car), so be careful with it. You can see the spring peeking out
from the top of the shift rod. |
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Removing the throttle cable was a piece of
cake. It was held on by a spring clip, so I just popped off the
cable and pushed it into the fire wall. |
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The temperature sensor was located near the
bottom of the left side head. It was just a one wire unplug. |
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The tach cable was difficult. It is tucked
under the distributor and I could not get a grip on it with anything. I
thought I was going to have to remove the distributor, so I loosened the
distributor bolt. Luckily I was able to get a better grip on it after I
turned the distributor. I ended up taking the engine apart eventually anyway. |
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I took the brake lines loose from master cylinder.
I was going to leave them in for the lift-off, but thought the better of
it, and totally removed one, and then moved the other well out of the way. I
didn't want anything snagging during the lift-off. |
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Another example of craftsmanship.
A nail was
used to hold the steering lock linkage together. |
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The oil sensor had to be disconnected. The
line had been previously spliced. You can see part of the splice
coupling in the previous nail photo. |
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I had to loosen the tension adjustment on the
parking brake cable under the car, before I could get enough slack to
remove it from inside the car. I could not get a good picture of it. You
can see it peeking out between the body and the exhaust pipe. |
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These floor panels sandwiched the
insulation below the passenger compartment floor. They were also
connected from the frame to the body. It looked like someone had tried
to drive over something without proper clearance, and snagged the heads
of some of these bolts. |
On the morning of the lift-off I was doing a final inspection to
make sure everything was disconnected, and noticed that the seat belt cable was
looped around drive-shaft. That would have made the lift difficult. Purely by
coincidence, the lift-off date coincided with a family party. If I pull this too
often, no one will come to my parties.
