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Summary: Get an overview of car frame alignment and straightening with expert automotive advice in this classic car repair and restoration video clip.

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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more

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Overview of Car Frame Alignment

DOUG JENKINS: Hi, I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now we're going to work on frame straightening, adjusting, measuring on this '32 Packard. It has a couple of issues with it that I'll show you that had us concerned, so we'll start with measuring the frame. If the frame is straight then we can go about adjusting things in other way, but you can't really build on anything if you have a crooked frame. One thing you can notice on this car if you look, it's leaning slightly to the right. It's probably--oh, as much as half an inch down on the right fender from the left fender. And this is what drew our attention to the problem in the first place, is this right side door gap. Now this nice, old Packard has a lot of wood in it. it has new wooden floors, and also, there's probably of number of factors that could be contributing to the fact the door is tight at the top and wide at the bottom. There's also a couple of issues here as we wander around the car, we always want to take a careful look at the hood gaps, front and rear. A lot of this stuff can be adjustable. The way the radiator grill shell fits, you know, it's tight here at the bottom and it's loose here at the top. That could be as simple as just--moving the radiator around, but we're going to start with a straight frame. A lot of good old restorations like this were done by real good guys, they're real craftsmen, but they didn't have the equipment or the ability to get a frame straight.

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