Ok, so I'd like some feedback here. Since I wasn't afraid to clearance the area where the coil buckets, shock bolts, and frame rails interfered with the body, I was able to get the position of the body relative to the frame pretty dang close to where I think they should be. I keep reading threads where others found their 60 body sat 3-4" higher than needed from the front and rear frame horns. I'm guessing this was due to unwillingness to do dirty things to the floor pan like I did. Take a look at this and tell me what you think...
The front valance panel is about an inch from the frame:
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For comparison, here's the gap before I relieved the floor of the coil bucket/frame interference:
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And it's the same in the rear. I have positioned the body mounts to give about 1" of clearance between the frame and body pinch weld. I *think this is pretty dang close to perfect.
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^^^ You can see how the frame needs to be lengthened here. The body mount brackets are hanging off the back edge of the frame rails. I tacked them in place just to get the reference points nailed down.
Interestingly, I have been able to figure out how to re-use at least three sets of the original 80-series body mounts so far. I'm hoping to keep the number of scratch-made mounts to a minimum to keep everything looking as close to factory as possible.
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Where I need input right now is with the rear frame/crossmember protrusion. Here are a couple photos showing how much the rear frame crossmember protrudes behind the body. I know this needs to be extended, but I'm unsure by how much? I have a good friend
@reklund5 who just cut the rear of his frame to fit a 4x4Labs bumper and he's been gracious enough to offer me the bit he chopped off. I'm thinking I could probably use it to extend the frame length to better fit a future bumper.
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