1970 Chevelle SS restoration

[Too Many Projects]

Thanks Bill, and Rick.
I have it on jack stands to begin the war to get the body mount bolts out. The 4 in the trunk were fairly easy. I cut 2" holes with a hole saw, minus the center drill, and clamped the cage tight to the nut with a vise grip. 2 spun out, with a lot of fore and aft "rocking" the bolt and 2 snapped off, which is a win. I was surprised that the 2 in the cowl are just square nuts, no cage and they are just loose. I tack welded them down and 1 spun out and the right side snapped almost immediately from the bolt shaft being rusted very small. Now I need to look at getting in that opening with a burr and cut the nut loose again so it can come out. The 2 under the door are just plugs and after the right side bolt, under the quarter structure brace, spun in the nut, I was very careful to slowly work the left side loose with my breaker bar. There is a hole in the floor brace right near those bolts that I didn't see on the right side, as they are rather hidden by the ladder bars, but I was able to spray deep creep on the left bolt and after 10 minutes of rocking it in and out by hand, I got it to thread out. There is no cutting into the floor pan under that brace without first removing the brace, so now that all the rest are out, I will lift the body the 1" of clearance I got by removing the bottom rubber mount on the right, cutting out the top mount and will get in there with a sawzall or my plasma and cut the bolt off. All in all, not bad, a little over 2 hours to remove 7 of 8 bolts .. LOL. Oh, the 2 over the rear axle bolts are already missing so no fight there. Hmmmm, it just occurred to me, they may well be plugs too... Either way, I will buy a full set of mounts and bolts to use all the holes with the replacement floor, as long as it's equipt for them.
Speaking of the ladder bars, as long as I had the car up, I removed the rear cover, as it does weep a little anyway and apparently the ladder bars were just to control the inevitable wheel hop, as it retains it's 3.31 gears. I guess its possible the carrier was replaced with deeper gears way in the past and then reinstalled to sell...