Underhood dimensions 71 Swinger

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Maybe you misunderstood the reason for starting the thread, it wasnt an attempt to teach you or anyone else structural analysis/structural repair, the info I posted is most useful in the right hands assuming that person knows what he or she is doing.

Teaching this sort of thing cant be done online but you make quite a few good points above. Thanks

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I’m sorry, but I’m just going to continue to disagree because you’re going about this incorrectly.

If the measurements you posted above were taken from the car sitting on rim stands chucked in random places under the body while the car sits in the dirt with no suspension etc, they’re useless. Because those measurements will change compared to a car that’s been leveled. Heck they’ll change compared to a car sitting on its suspension. When you lift the front end of one of these cars with a floor jack you can watch the chassis flex. For the measurements to be accurate, the car has to be leveled first while being supported on its suspension points.

And someone that knows what he/she is doing will know that. That’s the first step. You level the chassis on flat ground and support it at the suspension points. Then you proceed, whether it’s to check the trueness of the chassis against the factory measurements or pull body measurements from a straight car (which you can’t know unless you checked it).

I’m trying to teach chassis/structure analysis and repair because you have to know a few of those procedures to even take useful measurements.