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At first, I thought I could remove the body from the chassis alone. So, I'm glad a got a buddy to help me do it. It's a two man job for sure. We had to get the front of the body much higher than I thought for the rear frame to clear the bottom of the front 4X4 post. My buddy thought we could keep the wheels on the rear axle and just deflate the tires, but I didn't think that would work. I thought about using my wheel dollies to ride under the rear wheel hubs, but that turned out to be a bad idea. The leaf springs and shock absorber mounts got in the way. So I used the floor jack under the differential instead and it worked fine. I was able to clear the steering post without unbolting the steering box from the frame. We carefully lowered the body to the body cart by going around the car and lowering each side a couple of inches at a time. We had to put an 8 ft. 4X4 across the back of the cart to hold the body better. After the body was on the cart, we found that there was no real need to screw the body to the cart. The cart was super easy for one person to move the body to the other side of the garage.
