The drawing
>shows the cables being brought together to single hook and the car body up
>off the frame and engine.
>
>I have no idea whether this is smart or not but that is what they say in
>the manual. If you opened the doors.... I would guess that the whole thing
>could fold.
Not so... there's enough structural rigidity in the tub to
keep it from "folding".... Though you have to be real careful
about how you handle the the tub, you could tweak it a mite.
The Green Man's tub came from a TR4a (yes, they do fit on a 4
frame). I bought it from a guy in California who put
Hunter/Hathaway kit bodies on TR frames. I received the tub in a
crate sans everything but the right front, left rear fenders and
the dash. I schlepped the tub to the sand blaster on the back of
a Chevy half-ton and did most of the "repair" body work (the
donor car had been hit a couple of times, I think) while it hung
on a frame made from a bed frame (ignorance can be a wonderful
thing). When it came time to mount the tub to the frame I had a
hell of a time getting the doors to align. Whether the tub came
to me out of true, based on its history, I think that was the
case. Or whether I twisted it in my ministrations (which is
entirely possible),I don't know. The doors are close but not
right. Still, I didn't plan for the Green Man to be a show car.
In any case I would leave the doors on and closed if you are
removing the tub from the frame. Or make brackets of either wood
or angle iron and either spot weld or bolt them across the gap
(with the doors closed), prior to taking the doors off and then
removing the tub from the frame.
Greg "I have seen the DPO... And he is me!" Petrolati
Greg Petrolati Champaign, Illinois
1962 TR4 (CT4852L)
That's not a leak... My car's just marking its territory...
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