First Gen. Firebird-Camaro Body Cart-Jig 1
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- This is the first of three videos on the body cart-jig that we decided to make for the restoration of our 67’ Firebird. Hopefully you will get some ideas for your body cart and some of the things we went through to get ours figured out. Thank you for stopping by. 🙂
Good content, great explanation of the procedure, and progress. Will be following your build progress
Thanks, we are beginners at the whole restoration thing, so please bare with our lack of knowledge. Thank you for watching.
Once I get the cart back out from under the car. I may do a revised video physically showing all the dimensions. Thank you for watching. Feel free to reach out at any point. 👍
So far you're the best one that gave a detailed how to build a jig to roll your car around I appreciate it thank you for the information I learned a lot from you thank you
Thank you, we really had no idea how to build this at first, but wanted to make it as detailed as possible for other first timers like us. Appreciate you watching.👍
Great work and great info. I wish I would have had one of these when I was cutting on my car. I had it up on jack stands for a year or two. Keep up the great videos.
Thank you. It turned out good. Took a while to figure it out how we wanted to build it,but it’s done and it will be nice moving forward. Thanks for watching.
Very cool, love the levellers, something I will definitely use. Thanks. Cheers :)
Your welcome. Glad you can use some of the information. Thanks for watching.👍
Very nice! Perfect cart
Thank you. We took some ideas from other pictures and videos of body cart-jigs on the internet and it turned out pretty good. Thank you for watching.
Great video I'm thinking about building a body jig one day Great job 👍
Thank you. It took a while to figure out what we wanted to do, but we are happy with how it turned out. It’s nice being able to move it into the middle of the garage for more working space. Thanks for watching.
Man you inspire me to do my 67 bird, I’m subscribed and I’m tuned in, keep up the great work!
That’s great!!! Just remember we’re new to this so it’s a slow process for us. Glad you found our channel. Keep me posted on your progress as well. We appreciate you watching and subscribing.👍
Very nice video. Thank you for taking the time to make and post. Just subscribed
Thank you. Pretty new to this video thing, not to mention restoring a car. Thanks for the feed back and for watching. I’ll be checking your channel out. Love the name.👍
Hey love this channel and this video! Can’t help but notice your Rock County Fury shirt. My cousins played for that team for years and I played for my local team growing up. I’m currently restoring a ‘68 Camaro and about to start putting together my own frame jig for it. If you’re still in that area and I’m not over stepping I’d love to take a look at it in person and pick your brain on the whole process. If not I totally understand but figured it couldn’t hurt to ask! Again great stuff and love how in-depth you’ve gotten in all your videos!
Thank you. My daughter played with Ally and Anika. Small world. We are still in the area and would more than happy to help out. Here’s my email: nexgarageyt@gmail.com hopefully we can set something up and send some pics of your Camaro, I’d like to see it. Thanks for watching 👍
What wheels did you use for this cart? This is great! Nice work!
Thank you. I used the Harbor Freight 600 LB. 6” Heavy Duty Swivel Caster (item #61651). They are working out really well. Thank you for watching and for the comment.👍
I love this setup. Is there a way i could get hard copies of the specs, prints, and diagrams, from you?
Sorry for the delayed response. I can send you hard copies or PDF to your email. Here is my email nexgarageyt@gmail.com, just send me your information and I would be happy to get them to you. Thanks for watching. 👍
I'm trying to verify the design before building a jig for my car. I'm looking at your drawing, on the plan view at the rearmost uprights. I am not seeing how you get a 41-1/2" inner dimension, and a centered dimension of 43-3/4" at the same time with 1-1/2" tube as the other sheet indicates. If I hold the inner dimension at 41-1/2" as pictured, the outer dimension would just add 1/2 of the tube diameter twice, or more simply, add 1x the tube diameter... giving me 43" even. Where did the extra 3/4" come from? I am tempted to hold the 43-3/4" though, since almost all the other dimensions are on center and assume the 41-1/2" was miscalculated? Maybe I'm missing something?
I think I figured it out, is 41-3/4" not an inner dimension for the riser, but between the angle caps instead? I read another comment along those lines and thought that might be it.
Yes. Sorry for any confusion. The video #3 at the 1:38 mark kind of explains it. The 41-1/2” is the inside of the frame rails angles. That allow some play of about a 1/4” between the frame rail and the angle. Please reach back out if you need more help. Sorry for the confusion. ✌️
@@JK_Nex_Garage No problem at all, I'm just glad to have another shot at a solid set of plans, since I could never figure out why the factory dimensions didn't quite work! I appreciate that you took the time to do this! I have been reading plan sets for decades, so the assumption of an inner dimension was on me...anyone else might not have been tripped up by that. :)
Nice build and Great Share! I am assuming the 13/16 compensates for the bushings, because the books shows 13" inches to the front. The other thing I would do is add something to hold the rockers so they are in the correct position and height. The other measurement I was looking at says 9, I get 9 1/8 to the floor mounts again assuming a bushing is 13/16 + frame thickness 2 13/16 + 5 1/2 to the datum.
ok, I see the correction on the next revision of it being 9 1/8
Yes, the 13/16 compensates for the bushings, at least that what the Firebird service manual says. As for the floor. I decided to add those after the fact so didn’t go off any specs for those. For the rockers that’s another video of some brackets that we attach to the body cart to hold them up in place while fine tuning install. Got that from Jubee. Thanks for the input and thanks for watching.
@@JK_Nex_Garage thanks, that's where I had trouble. Making sure that the 13/16 was the difference and the height of the floor mount.
I see myself making a body cart like this very soon. It will expedite your assembly process a lot. Nice job!
@@VinylVillageGarage Thanks Jon, It will definitely help keep things in position as we move forward with this build. Thank you for watching.
Hi. I am very interested in seeing how much it would be if you made one for a 69 Camaro for me.
If I was on the tail end of our project I would be more than happy to make one for you, but I want to commit the free time I have right now to getting our project body work completed. Hope you understand. Reach back out when we get the body work done if you still need one build. Thank you for your comment.✌️
Yes I also have a 1969 Firebird that was passed over to me for my late dad and that's the reason I want to keep it in the family I want to restore it back to what it was I might cheat a little and put a better motor though
That’s awesome, it’s not cheating if it makes you happy. We are making ours how we want it and what we like. Not necessarily back to original. Good luck with it, and keep us posted on your progress.