In a message dated Fri, 1 Feb 2002 2:58:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Jordan,
Bruce" <bjordan@scn.spawar.navy.mil> writes:
> List,
> I'm replacing the driver's side rocker panel on a '71 GT-6 Mk.3. I
> have the body shell removed from the chassis frame (stripped out, w/o doors,
> w/o back hatch), suspended on a wooden work support. My question: Is the
> GT-6 body shell, in this configuration, rigid enough that it is safe to cut
> off the old rocker panel, weld on the new panel, and still expect the body
> shell to go back on the chassis frame with correct body alignment (all the
> bolt holes line up)?
I'd suggest at least remounting and aligning the door. You *MIGHT* get away
without that *IF* it is only the outer skin of the rocker panel and *NOT* also
the intermediate stiffener or inner rocker panel...but I wouldn't risk it.
Those sills provide an awfully large percentage of the overall body stiffness.
--Andy Mace
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