How to Remove a Body from a Frame Without a Hoist! 

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DCKIllUNPo8.html 😅

Thanks for your input! I agree swapping this into a 3/4 ton or 1 ton truck would make a lot more sense! I definitely don't recommend people to attempt what I'm doing since it is a bit silly haha. However practicality just isn't what I'm looking for in this swap so I'm going to keep plugging along ;). I have looked into the gearing but I don't think I've put it on video yet. Optimal gearing for this would be running 80 down the highway at 1800 RPM since that's peak torque. The two options I'm looking at are the short term, keep my 3.73's and 31's (they're on my other car) in which case I'd have to run down the highway at 70-75, but this would mean I can get the thing running without redoing both the front and rear end (get it on the road much quicker). The 2nd better and more expensive option would be swapping in the 3/4 ton stuff like the dana 70 and run 3.54's with 33's which would put me at about 2k on the highway which would be about perfect, but would take much more work and put off finishing the project for a while longer (but much better overall). I haven't decided if I'll finish the engine swap before doing the axle swaps, or do it all at once, but I should have a decision made very soon!

Oh stfu. There are 1000s of fummins on the road. Not many explorers running around with Cummins in em

Power jokes are junk v8s are you nuts?!?

Just measured, about 7.5' to the garage door sliders and about 9.5' to the actual ceiling. Keep in mind I had the dana 70 spring over axle underneath it and everything (adds like 6" in the rear). To the ceiling I had room to spare but if I had to keep it under the garage door sliders I would say take the tires off and put it on car dollies. Also removing the engine helps, but isn't necessary I was later able to get the body back on with the cummins in the chassis. Again I'd recommend 2 cherry pickers to make it easy, and if you pick it from the side like I did removing that rear door to give more reach and less risk damaging the body is a good idea. If you want to see better camera views of me putting the body back on take a look at this video at the current timestamp. It took some jiggering but over all wasn't too bad. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DCKIllUNPo8.html

​@@BuildSomethingAuto thanks for all the help man! Frame is under the body. I ended up removing the rear axle and radiator core support and rolling the frame out from underneath, as i would be swapping the rear axle anyways. It all worked out and i should be finishing up my project this week!

@@OutsideWithZIO great to hear Im glad I could help!

A dana 50 TTB is exactly what I went with 😅. I figured they put em in powerstrokes so it should handle the power. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oyu8b0woLzk.html

I guess I didn’t really show that part. The tow strap went between the rear hatch and the body and all the way down to underneath the body where there was a couple holes I connected the hooks of the tow strap to. I dont know that the rear strap was entirely necessary but I did it mostly to make sure it didnt tilt down too much since I dont actually know where the center of gravity is

@@BuildSomethingAuto Can you show me a picture of the holes?

Where would you put the two cherry pickers if you had them? How would you use tall jack stands?

@@rickanderson3612 hmm.. actually I can, I use to blog about this project on explorerforum but havent in a while. www.explorerforum.com/forums/threads/cummins-first-gen-build-thread-no-really.490429/page-2 Halfway down when Im using a cherry picker to lift the rear I used a very similar setup, same holes, as when I rigged to pick the whole body up at once later on. Just scroll through you’ll see it in more detail.

@@rickanderson3612 also, in a later video when I put the body back on I managed to pick the whole thing up at once so consider watching the video where the body goes back on for doing it with one cherry picker. The 2 cherry picker method would gain you much more height though if you needed it to get over, say if your engine was still in the frame. I managed to get the body back on with the cummins in with one cherry picker but it was a little more sketchy. Either way between these two videos and that blog page you should get some ideas.

Youre too late I already swapped that junky dana 35 TTB for a junky dana 50 TTB 😉. Im not scared of a little bit of suspension design and a solid axle just doesnt tick the right boxes for me and my rig.