Reply to "Buying a donor chassis"

Gordon NicholsMassachusetts 1993 CMC Supporting Member

@Alan Merklin wrote: "it requires you to build a temp jig in order to be spot on with the horizontal and lateral measurements as they have to be factory exact. "

I totally agree with being fastidious and lining things up, but I wonder, after 50 years or so of however the've been treated, how close to "true" the original pan frame horns are. I'll bet they're all over the place from years of fatigue and abuse. A guy in town with an old Bug found that it was a little off on one side at the rear so we heated and moved the frame horn and then quenched it to bring it back. I kinda had the feeling that the end of the horn was used as a jack point for the whole rear more than once.

Just an observation.

1/21/227:23 AM

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