MK4 Body Removal

[Robk]

I'm getting ready to mount the body to the chassis on my MK4 build. I want to put it together and run it around a bit before removing the body for painting. How hard is it to remove the body on a complete build? Aside from the obvious stuff, doors, trunk, hood, hoops, windshield, etc , what else has to be removed? I'm particularly concerned about the sheet metal panels installed after the body goes on. Will the body clear them, or do they have to be removed?

[cv2065]

If you’ve got the doors, hood, trunk lid, windshield and Rollbar removed, and the car is completely built out, then you would just need to remove the front and rear quick jacks and hardware, as well as the side pipes. Remove your front/rear splash panels and the wipers. Disconnect any lighting and remove. If you have side or rear mirrors mounted on the body, I’d remove those too. If you have machine screws holding the undersides to the frame, you’d want to remove those.

I think that’s it.

[Jeff Kleiner]

Splash panels and nose aluminum have to be removed to pull the body off.

Jeff

[Robk]

Splash panels and nose aluminum have to be removed to pull the body off.

Jeff

That's what I was wondering. If the splash panels and radiator aluminum has to be removed.

[rthomas98]

That's what I was wondering. If the splash panels and radiator aluminum has to be removed.

I used nut certs and nut bolts to hold the splash panels when I running in gel for easy removal. I did not install the radiator aluminum because I used a breeze radiator support. Glad I did this because my body shop did all the body work on the chassis and due to room requested I pick up the chassis after while he painted it on a buck. So through the process my body got installed and removed a few times.

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