Re: [Amc-list] caspers cancer

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Honestly.
If your shell is flexing I would walk away from it.
I would simply start looking for another shell to build on.
Take time, you will find one. Proabably sooner than you save that one.
I know it is special, but if the flex has set you will need a frame guy or some floorpots etc; to tweak it back to square. then brace and repair the structure.
   
  Rebody Casper. He's a ghost anyway...His spirit can live on in another shell!

My Convertible is rough and rusty as Casper, but it is a convertible! It has all the vert bracing and there is a LOT of it!
I can jack under one corner and open and close doors, trunk etc; No flex at all.

Now, maybe the 62's were flexy flyers from the get go? So maybe you are worrying about nothing!
50's studes are known for flexing. Is the 62 body that way?  They thought it helped the ride!

If so, measure and tweak then really rebuild, and you wanted a 304 in the end anyway, so build it from the ground up if your going to do it.

If I was not married and did not have commitments, or is that being commited? I would come out and work on Casper to get you started.  

Send me gas money and talk my wife into letting me come. I'll bring a 327 and some other misc stuff. You don't need no Steenkin 304...

If the weather would hold this weekend I'd be stripping the flood car. Now that's a piece of crap!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
" I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens! "

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From: d stohler <das24rules@xxxxxxxxx>
> well, i opend the right door of casper, and noticed that it didnt shut. the 
> doors were PERFECT shutting. although the left door was a little lower at the 
> back of the door than the body. never could get it to loosen up so i could 
> adjust it. anyway, the pass. door was always perfect. now, it was sitting 
> higher. i got to looking if i had jackstands uneaven. well, i have 2 different 
> brands of jackstands. and i got them cady cornered in the pairs. x in right rear 
> and left front, xx in left rear and right front. well, i got them placed xx in 
> rear, and x in front. now the right front corner (both jackstands with 2 teeth 
> showing, just enough to get tires off the ground) is not resting on the 
> jackstand. about 1/2" gap between the crossmemeber and jackstand. did i make a 
> BIG BOO BOO, or will it maybe flatten back out?? i think all that rust has my 
> chassis a little weak. i cant beleive it never showed. i.e. fender gaps 
> changing, doors always moving ect. this is my
>  first car that has had any kind of risk to the chassis. so im not sure what im 
> doing. and yes, my garage floor is level. no low spots or one corner lower than 
> the other. had levels on it, and also when i pressure wash it out. no puddles 
> and can see if all eaven across the floor till i sweep it out....
> 
> dave stohler
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