Underhood dimensions 71 Swinger

72bluNblu said
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.

Not to be confrontational but you have no idea whatsoever how I am going about the repair, nor do you know my level of education in the field, you are behind a keyboard assuming too many things and because of that you havent taken the opportunity to learn from me possibly a different way of looking at the situation. ( or asked me respectfully how I plan to go about the repair ) ( and then cut me too pieces if thats what turns you on )

I would have been more than happy to give you a step by step with pictures procedure of the repair but at this point Im not gonna bother cause I get the impression that at some point in your life you just stopped learning and assumed you knew almost everything there was too know about anything.

You say the measurements I posted are useless, that dosent hurt my feelings cause I get why you are assuming they are useless.

I get and in fact agree with the majority of your above posts, I dont know what your background is but it isnt necessarily googling things and coming up with half baked replies in an effort to make your fellow A bodiers think your intelligent, you appear to have a certain degree of hands on knowledge but too what extent I wont even try and guess cause it is a fact that I simply do not care. AKA its none of my business!

Ill end my part in this thread with saying dont assume so much, ( ask questions ) give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes and your never too old to learn.

Have a nice weekend :)