A-Body Frame/Body Jig
That is real nice. We put dowels/pins on ours they have a location built in the cars frame rails for them. Holds the rails at the correct location and they cannot move . Front and rear of all 4 rails
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Oldmanmopar, if I was closer to PA, I'd just contract with you to do my front clip and rear frame rails. That's one sturdy looking jig. I'm kind of on hold for a while while my wife and I finish a tiling project in our house. After that's done, I get the garage back and will set up to start peeling back the layers on my Dart and see exactly what will need replaced when I do the front and rear frame rails. I think I'm going to build a base jig out of 2x2 steel tubing, kind of a trussed box for rigidity. Then I'll weld the pinned supports in place and mount by car on it. (Sounds a lot easier said than done when I type it out). Anyway, I'll use the same base and weld new supports on it for a Camaro project that is still waiting to be done.
My car appears to have never been in a wreck, hit, or tweeked. It still has all original paint. It suffered from poor storage so the underside got a little crusty although I don't think it's sagged or been structurally compromised yet. It did have some frame caps installed that may cover some of the locating holes in the frame rails so I'll need to remove the caps caps as best I can to get good measurements for building my supports with locating pins. This would be a lot easier with a lift but like my dad used to tell me when I started wishing for stuff....."Wish in one hand and sh*t in the other, see which fills up first".
One question I had, though, and maybe you didn't see it in a previous post, but the clip I bought was removed by cutting through the donor car cowl brackets and leaving the inner fender aprons untouched, I have to drill some spotwelds to remove the bracket remnants from my donor and remove my front clip while leaving my existing cowl brackets in place (more spotweld drilling). Then I would line up the clip and weld the donor inner fender aprons to the existing cowl brackets on my car (after welding the rails to the torsion bar cross member and lower part of the cowl. Is that the typical way you do it?