{"id":713,"date":"2011-12-23T22:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T05:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2011-12-23T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T05:49:42","slug":"getting-ready-to-start-the-body-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/2011\/12\/23\/getting-ready-to-start-the-body-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready to Start the Body Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few items that I needed to take care of before tackling all the rusted areas in the body and floor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Measuring Rear Wheel Clearance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thinking ahead, as it turns out, way ahead, I used my new Percy&#8217;s Wheel Rite simulator tool to see if I had enough clearance for up to a 20&#8243; x 8&#8243; wheel and 245\/45ZR20 tire. It looks like it should not be a problem. My wheel of choice would be American Racing Torque Thrusts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pulling the Engine &#038; Transmission<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I decided to pull the engine &#038; transmission along with the front sheet metal and the seats so that I would have better access to the firewall and floor areas that needed a fair amount of rust repair, okay, they needed a LOT of rust repair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Engine Mount Bosses<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once the engine was out, I decided to strengthing the motor mount backets by welding the flat washers to the bracket sheet metal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few items that I needed to take care of before tackling all the rusted areas in the body and floor. Measuring Rear Wheel Clearance Thinking ahead, as it turns out, way ahead, I used my new Percy&#8217;s Wheel Rite &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/2011\/12\/23\/getting-ready-to-start-the-body-work\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[16,22,49],"tags":[43,45,42,39],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-1956-dodge-sierra-wagon-build","category-body-work","category-projects","tag-measure","tag-mig-weld","tag-remove","tag-tools","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8JCW3-bv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":734,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csmonroe.net\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}