Removing the fiberglass body from my CCX - Page 2

mickmate · #21 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 07:53 AM

It's simple enough. If you have a FFR you go to the FFR forum, a CSX CSXinfo.net and there are many other such examples. If you don't have a good brand specific website to got to (like Doug the orphan) you finish up here instead or as well as. I have seen the super info transfer amongst the CCX registry group and it's almost time for their own site from the look of things. The important point to support the sport and cameraderie amongst these guys is to do exactly what we are doing, come to CC as a networking tool. These guys are amongst the most timely and useful responses here as soon as they see the word Contemporary on a post. Believe me I've seen plenty of the cloak and dagger treatment of Cobra related info and it's certainly not the case with the CCX crew. If someones smoking something that makes them paranoid they could at least share it!

767Jockey · #22 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by mickmate

If you don't have a good brand specific website to got to (like Doug the orphan) you finish up here instead or as well as.

Geez, you make me sound like the kid from the movie Oliver.....

1985 CCX · #23 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 11:13 AM

Wow thanks guys!

I do try my best, after all we are all infected with the Cobra bug. Bill, I understand your thoughts and I share them. Tom Pulsifer does not use Club Cobra so that is why I shared the thought of contact within our owners group. Tom has done it several times and would offer a tremendous amount of help. I was avoiding the third party info transfer, that was all.

I think Club Cobra is bare none the best resource for us all. As a matter of fact I have made a pledge to fund annually as we all should. My SAAC dues are now going to go to CC. Money much better spent I feel.

Maybe we could get Brent to offer a CCX forum on this site to further our plight? Might offer some benefit all around? We already have a gallery here in CC so why not a forum link specific to CCX?

petercory · #24 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 11:53 AM

Position 12 person at each wheel wheel and lift the body up off of the rolling chassis. Put (1) 4 X 4 under the floor on each side of the cockpit and some protective padding under the Oil Cooler opening and below body under trunk and the body should be able to sit on the floor.

FatBoy · #25 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 01:18 PM

I made up a wooden frame to support mine. It comprised of 6 pieces of 3" X 3" or thereabouts. There were 2 long pieces that sat roughly where the main chassis rails sit, 4 posts (1 at each corner) to support the step on the inner wings at the front and the trunk floor at the rear and 2 cross pieces to hold it all together. I then attached a caster on the bottom of each post so that I could move it around. It was all screwed together so that it could be easily dismantled and stored ready for the next time it was neaded.
As for lifting the body off, one person at each wheel arch is fine and won't cause any damage to the body. Keep the doors closed until you have the body sitting on the support frame.
I'll try to draw a picture and post the image in my gallery if it would help.

Paul

Shelboss · #26 (**permalink**) 10-03-2007, 01:48 PM

I have some views of my set-up in my gallery. My solution consists of two sidewinder winches mounted to reinforcement plates on the wall. Each has two wire cables feeding to the rafters where pulleys route the cables to either side of the body. I use a 2"x6" board with spacer blocks in front that sit right at the front edge of the foot boxes. The body needs to be lifted by two people to get it in. The rear 2"x6" slides thru in front of the frame tubes and each end is contoured a little to miss the forward section of the flare. I also took a 1"x6" and cut it to the exact cockpit dimension and fastened it to a larger piece of plywood so it sits in place between front and rear edge of the cockpit. This eliminates any flex under the doors. One winch raises the front, the other raises the rear. I figure the body is about 400 lbs, so don't use junk hardware, but 100 lbs per corner is not much for loading. That means the single pulleys see 200 # each and the double pulleys 400 # at the ceiling. If you are doing a one time body off, make the cockpit spacer and call some friends :-)