Eseries opinions

CodyY

Explorer
Ive got a trusty rusty 97 with 125,000 mile 7.3.

I use the term rusty loosely.
Quarters and rockers are gone. Its from Missouri. Do i replace them or swap the body? Van was cheap and a keeper, just not sure.:confused:
 

CodyY

Explorer
Rust so bad, i had to weld new lower shock mounts onto the radius arms.

Full Ujoint planned, of course, but I need to buy some time. Its a short-body cargo.

I can see the shop floor in the right rear quarter. Kinda leaning towards just bobbing the 1/4's and boat-sides on the rockers. Rattle-can rhino from the bodyline down. And run it till i start the conversion. Then yank the body and work on the cancer and convert to 4*4. I do have the equipment and talent to pull it off, just curious how bad a body swap actually is.
 

225

Village Idiot
There is a thread on supermotojunkie.com, but you have to sign up because it's in the members only section, where a guy does a body swap. It didn't look that hard other than lots of wiring to swap over. But I guess that stuff just unplugs, and plugs back in.

On another note, I live in New Orleans %85 of the time. I can get you a van body fairly easy here. Very high mileage E series vans run around 3k here. And of course, not a spec of rust.

I travel all over, so for gas $$$ I could possibly bring you/meet with said van.

A good place to talk to about that would be:

Victory Motors
1917 Airline Dr Kenner, LA 70062
(504) 467-3650

They have a van boneyard too. So you might could buy a non-running one.

Link on SMJ: http://www.supermotojunkie.com/showthread.php?50214-Van-SM-Haulers-ONLY


Hope this helps.
 

CodyY

Explorer
Sweet, Im a member there, will check it out.

Should be plenty around here but finding a clean-ish one with a popped motor would be ideal.
 

CodyY

Explorer
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Um yeah. Upon further re-inspection its not even worth the "practice" of jacking with it
 

ujoint

Supporting Sponsor
Yea, thats bad. The body swap isn't bad as long as you have a lift and the body/chassis aren't too far off in model years. Hardest part of pulling the body is the rusty body bolts. Other than cutting them, it's a half day job at the most (pulling)
 

CodyY

Explorer
Yea, thats bad. The body swap isn't bad as long as you have a lift and the body/chassis aren't too far off in model years. Hardest part of pulling the body is the rusty body bolts. Other than cutting them, it's a half day job at the most (pulling)

Roger that. Kinda what I figured. Scarfing torch and lift, check. Just time consuming with the wiring.

Other than powerwash and rattlecan, what do we like on the frame? POR15?
 

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