1968 Firebird/Camaro trunk floor pan and frame rail assembly
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- čas přidán 6. 12. 2022
- Helped a friend with installing frame rails and trunk floor together for his 1968 Camaro convertible restoration project. Installation of rear frame rails on first gen f-body Firebird or Camaro. Setting the location correctly and how to weld and attach them to the trunk floor pan.
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Thanks for all you do! Nothing better than helping people especially when it’s a grandfather or father son project.
Agreed!! no way could I say no
That's so cool that you help so many people with there projects! I know they all appreciate your knowledge God bless you brother keep the videos coming please🙂
Thank you sir!
That’s awesome. Nice
Thanks 😊
If it ever comes back from being MIA or you get around to making another. A template or jig plans would be cool.
Wish it would turn up, I have collected the materials to build a new one. Hopefully I can get a car to build it from.
That jig has really helped a lot - 2nd time you've had people come to use it!!!
Heck yeah! Simplifies the process. It was a useful tool. It unfortunately seems to be lost in shipping at this time, it was on a truck to Maryland and has gone MIA 🙁
@@VinylVillageGarage Hey Jon.Confused! Didn't I see this video a few months back with the same 2 people using the jig? Maryland? Hmmmm I'm about an hour's drive from the Maryland border. what part of the country/state was it destined for?
Yes this was a rerelease so to speak. Somehow the original video got messed up and it got removed. So fortunately I found it and reuploaded it. I liked helping Joe and his grandson and i wanted this experience to be on the VVG channel still.
Bowie MD is where it was supposed to go but never made it. Not sure how something that big gets lost but it’s still MIA
Nice!
This thing was a huge time saver
Good Stuff
Thanks!!
Thats absolutely awesome! I have a 67 Camaro I need to do my trunk floor and frame rails as well.. I have all the metal, but I need to figure out a jig like this. Any tips or recommendations? I'd like to do it on my own vs paying someone for something I think I can learn to do (welding included). Thanks!
The spec book has some of the dimensions listed wrong. In particular the width of the rails not even close
To factory location. So if possible inspect your rails and make a jig from those if they are good enough to at least do that. Other then that just practice makes perfect. Learn to weld on scrap material first and get comfortable with the welder settings before jumping in. Last keep it fun and remember the reward for getting your hands dirty is a car that you rescued and driving it again.
Hello Jon, thank you for all your videos! It's very good! I need to change my trunk floor on my 1967 Camaro convertible and there is no anti-vibration plate on each side underneath as you mention. Does this sell? And if so, what is it called? Thanks in advance!
The only place that I found that sells them is eBay and Firebird central
www.ebay.com/itm/285652686587
Check this link out.
I have a 69 Camaro that was hit in the rear. Some measurements will help to get square if you have them. Or lead me to a site that i can get the info, thanks for what you do.
I wish I had my rail jig to get measurements from. It’s on truck to
Maryland for a 1967 bird. I don’t have a great site to Send you to because every spec I found never matched up to any car I have ever owned or built. Part of the reason i built this rail jig. I can’t promise any specs will be correct or accurate. I am sure someone out there has what you are looking for,
Can someone be of assistance here?
Jon , what is the inside measurement between the frame rails at the point of the center bracket at on the jig?
Not 100% I know what you are looking for. If have a diagram of the dimensions of an original car VS fisher body manual specs. In particular every car I have checked the width of the rear frame rails don’t come Close that factory spec.
Do you recommend to brace your car up when you do your quarters and roof
Not necessarily, I won’t tell you not to of course it is your choice. But the minimum the body needs to be supported and level to the floor beforehand. Especially with the 1/4 replacements it can effect the dimensions of the body. You will notice the car body will flex once they are removed and it takes a little finesse and ratchet straps to pull the body back into shape. That is why some people like to brace the body. I don’t because we are assuming the car body was good to begin with. My experience most of the time the 50 years of rust and collision damage they are not. I would rather pull things back into shape using comparison side to side measurements and other body panels like that trunk lid and doors to align things then weld the car together.
I bought a 68 convertible project that was started by someone else. After watching this video I caught something I didn’t know. My frame rail does not have the support brackets for the vibration dampeners. The trunk floor and quarters are all welded in place. Am I in trouble? Can I still get this corrected?
You are not alone, most people don’t even know about the dampeners let alone the brackets. So they get omitted a lot. couple thoughts. If it’s an 100% original resto it is going to be a lot of work to get it corrected. Let’s start with most cars within 5 years of their life the dampeners got pitched and no complaints of driving. The car will drive without them but you might experience a wobble or vibration around 45mph. The other option is subframe connectors seem to help a lot or completely remove the vibration as well if you don’t have the dampeners. If you decide you want to install the dampeners you could modify the plate and the frame rails to slip it into place and weld it all back together I don’t think I would go as far as to remove the rails or trunk pan to install. Hope this info was helpful.
Thank you
No problem
I thought it was Vinyl Village because the interior of these cars are all cheap vinyl. I didn't realize you were talking about the houses around you.
Lol. Never thought of it that way. Here in Indiana when all housing boom took off in the 90s they all had vinyl siding so we started calling them vinyl villages. That name
Just stuck and i felt it proper to use it for CZcams. Never claimed to be the most creative namer guy. Remember i
Have a car flipper thing. 😁🤣
@@VinylVillageGarage Most of the houses around here are vinyl siding as well.
See the vinyl village is every where
@@VinylVillageGarage I thought I should get your opinion on my Arizona car. I will be finished the first one by the end of this summer coming up hopefully but I am not 100% sure I want to build the Arizona one. It's a rust free car without an engine or trans. It has all the interior that is rotted from the sun but the chrome and all metal etc. is good. Do you have any idea what a rough value might be for a car like this? Thanks.
What was the original engine and transmission from the factory