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A Veteran's Guide to Structural Repairs Philadelphia PA

As you well know, a vehicle's frame/unibody structure is critically important. It's the crucial foundation - it's ground zero. Nothing is going to fit, operate or provide an original margin of safety on a platform that isn't restored to manufacturer's recommendations or has had the designed safety characteristics altered and/or destroyed using incorrect repair methodologies.
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A Veteran's Guide to Structural Repairs



By Barney Slifer
9/1/2005

Adapted from Barney Slifer's article in BodyShop Business



After 30 years of working on critically wounded vehicles, I can safely say I've pretty much done it all when it comes to surgical frame and structure repairs. I can also safely say that timely, quality repairs can still be done in our time-and-labor-hostile environment.

I began long ago with an Oakaliner (a ratcheting cable puller connected to a neighbor's tree) and graduated to 'dozers, pull posts and pots - the latest in racks and benches. I measured with plumb bobs and chalk marks on the floor, a hanging chain and ridged bar gauges, trams, pin machines and lasers.

I've pulled, heated, spliced, clipped, cursed and worked many a late night swinging an engine/transmission, rear-end assembly or a body/cab out of the way so I'd have repair access to a damaged area. And after a 30-year journey, I believe I can safely say that I've been exposed to all sorts of critical vehicle wound damage and attempted most kinds of surgical frame and structure repairs. I've pretty much done it all.

Tour of Duty
I'm familiar with the loathing of a job, where nothing goes right and proves to be a horrid exercise in painful frustration. I also know those tingles of joyful self satisfaction when a pull goes exactly as planned and perfectly aligns with the factory measuring targets.

All that said, "The Veteran's Guide to Structural Repairs" is to show that quality and timely repairs c...

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