Neil Clark Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 I bought my accident damaged Mk1 Spitfire (it had just been expensively restored before the crash) and it came with a restored chassis from another car. The tub is completely undamaged and so, (with reinforcement bars fitted in the door gaps) the tub was lifted off the damaged chassis and it dropped perfectly onto the replacement chassis. All the locating bolts slotted in really easily to their holes, front and back. The diff was put into the "new" chassis and secured prior to replacing the body. It is the later diff type. Then everything else connected with suspension and body bolted up very easily. The issue I seem to have is that the rear wheels look to be offset about 1/2" towards the nearside of the car now that the body is in place. The car drives without any tendency I can note to "crab". Is there any lateral adjustment possible within the chassis of the rear suspension / diff assembly? - I can't see anything in the manuals that suggest there might be. So I suspect that the issue is a slight misalignment of the old body tub relative to the new chassis. Or am I faced with simply loosening off the body securing bolts and tweaking the tub position on the chassis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bfg Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 Seems like the first thing to do would be to check / measure the wheel relative to the chassis rails, rather than to the body, on either side. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Lewis Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 unless you have might have a mix of a long and short drive shaft fitted a simple tape measure the shaft bit you can see will show that up after that its slacken the body and give it a shove Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Clark Posted January 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 Thank you all. I'll let you know. I've just got the car at the bodyshop for paint so will measure everything on return but all the shafts and positions relatively to the body were good when it sat on the old chassis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Jones Posted January 23, 2022 Report Share Posted January 23, 2022 The body mounts above the diff are fixed front/rear but have adjustment available side to side, so it should be a case of loosening the mounts and shifting it over until even. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Clark Posted January 24, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2022 Thank you Nick. I remember those now! Of course I've put the fuel tank back but it's only got a little fuel in it and I can syphon that out easily to take it out again. Hoping the paint shop delivers on their promise to do it this month so that I can make progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Clark Posted January 31, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2022 It worked and bolted back easily. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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