Breeze Cubby Body Fitting

[mrglaeser]

I've seen three or four posts for Mark IV where the builders had installed the Cubby and it caused initial fitment issues when installing the body. In these builds it looks like the fix is to cut down the top of the rear wall of the cubby. I was thinking there might be a way to figure this out prior to putting the body on.

1. With my body on the buck I measured from the floor to the underside of the body just after lip of the cockpit. Where I expect the body to sit on the chassis.
2. I marked on the floor the location.
3. I measure how far back I installed the rear wall of the cubby on the chassis. 8 inches behind the rear cockpit wall.
4. I measured 8 inches back from the mark on the floor
5. I measured to the floor to underside of the body at the 8 inch back mark on the floor trying to keep my tape at a 90 to the floor
6. I calculated the difference. About 1 inch in my case
7. Then I measured the bottom of the trunk to the tops of the cockpit wall and rear Breeze Cubby wall.
8. Then I calculated the difference at 1/4 inch.

So just getting a temperature check. Would it make sense to cut the cubby wall down 3/4 inch prior to trying to fitting the body? I know I'm probably going to have to take the body on and off to make some adjustments but if I reduce that it would be nice

[Jeff Kleiner]

I've had a bunch of cars come through here with Mark's cubby installed by the owners and had no interference issues with any. That said, I'd recommend installing it per Mark's instructions but leave the bulb seal off of it's top edge for the first body fitting. That way you'll be able to see if it will need to be trimmed down. If you have around 1/2" gap you'll be good with the bulb seal installed.

Jeff

[rich grsc]

Link those 4 posts, I've never seen any issues.

[mrglaeser]

I've had a bunch of cars come through here with Mark's cubby installed by the owners and had no interference issues with any. That said, I'd recommend installing it per Mark's instructions but leave the bulb seal off of it's top edge for the first body fitting. That way you'll be able to see if it will need to be trimmed down. If you have around 1/2" gap you'll be good with the bulb seal installed.

Jeff

Jeff thank you for the advice this is exactly what I will do.


Link those 4 posts, I've never seen any issues.

Rich - I should probably have said it looks like my divider is nearly as tall as the back cockpit wall of my build and I think I have seen 3-4 mentions of..... I honestly do a bad job of saving off posts for later use. I did review one video I thought had that issue in and I was mis-remembering where the trimming was done. I did several searches and could find anything so it may all be in head. So thank you both for the sanity check.