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Originally Posted by MAStuart
Hi Larry What I am getting at is how do you know the jig you are using is an accurate jig of an original. There will be problems in just building a jig accurately when welding it together . Most people would be shocked to see how much a weld can pull a joint when lets say a piece of tube gets welded on one end and the other end is 3 foot away. I have seen where a part was jigged up and welded and after the part was taken out of the jig it is imposable to put back in the jig. I would think that the original cars chassis varied from car to car for this reason alone. If the jig was built off of an original car how does anyone know that that car didn't have a crash in the past and have small twists and bends that cant be seen?
Mark
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I really don't know if the car copied for the jig was ever in an accident or not. I know it was built using an original car though, during it's restoration. I'm not to a build point that I can say everything came into adjustment perfectly, so as for my frame, I can't say everything is perfect. Jeff Gagnons car came out of the same jig though, so he could say better than I.
Larry