Still Scraping

Nothing to report - couple of family vacations and such - and much more scraping of undercoating.  It really sucks.  And it's a mess.  And it's awkward.  And it gets in your hair.  And there are NO shortcuts to get it off.

Separation at last

I did it - the body is separated from the frame.  It really wasn't that hard providing you have a huge engine hoist handy.  Couple of chains to the seat belt holes and some counter weights in back and up and off it goes.

My original plan was to build a cart to place it on, perhaps work on some of my welding skills in the process, then I found some folding metal scaffolding on sale at the rental shop for far less than the materials that I would need to build a metal cart - so I bought two.  I cut the tops off so they would not interfere with the top shelf mount location... this would be about 4 foot high, just perfect to set the Bronco body on so that I can comfortably work underneath to continue scraping undercoating.

Unfortunately - the hoist boom connected with the Bronco body causing it to tilt crazy at the height I needed to get the scaffold underneath.  I tried this for an hour or so with different configurations - foiled!

So back to plan A - build a cart.  However, I was going to use my medium of choice.  Wood.  I already had some wheels and plenty of bolts and lag screws.  Just needed $12 worth of wood.  Colin and I whipped up a cart in about 3 hours and got the Bronco safely attached to it.

So I have to bend over slightly to continue my scraping... sigh!  

Colin (my son) says the frame/engine combo looks like a dune buggy.