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Unibody rigidity
On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 8:38:57 PM UTC-4, wrote:
> My 1981 Buick Century: Noticed lots of squeeks and rattles. I relocated the strikers inward on all four doors in that thing, and it actually began speaking German! Seriously - the body felt tighter, the suspension responded more readily to both the road and my inputs. It felt more like an Autobahn burner than a cushy Detroit rolling library. > > > > > > My 1996 Ford Contour: Much taughter little sedan than the Buick for sure.. But I read in the chassis manual I bought for it that both the front and rear glass "must be properly mounted and sealed to insure body rigidity." > > > > Are unibodies(like that Mondeo/Contour) that dependent even on the fixed glass for total rigidity?? Short answer, yes. That's why pretty much all recently built cars use glued-in glass rather than the old style rope-in gaskets. It's not because they're deliberately trying to make it more difficult for a DIYer, that's just a side effect. |
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Steve W. wrote: "cut-aways to companies who then installed regular cargo boxes and ambulance bodies as well as motorhome bodies on them, Many added framerails to the rear but there were quite a few that simply changed the "
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Unibody rigidity
On 2014-04-17, Steve W. > wrote:
> Unibody has been in use far longer than a lot of people think. The first as far as I know was Lancia in the early 1920s. The first U.S. car companies to convert completely to unibody construction were Hudson (1948) and Nash (1949). Nash previously built a unibody model, the "600," in 1941, but the company's other models at that time were still body-on-frame. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roger Blake (Change "invalid" to "com" for email. Google Groups killfiled.) NSA sedition and treason -- http://www.DeathToNSAthugs.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Steve W: "- show quoted text -
Yep, lot's of different delivery outfits used them. We had one for a while. Handled about like a drunk elephant walking on marbles.... -- Steve W. " The short bus? BTW when are you filming in Stamford next? |
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