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Re: New Owner Questions [message #320525 is a reply to message #320425] Sun, 16 July 2017 07:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
jhbridges is currently offline  jhbridges   United States
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"What we have here is a failure to communicate..." Or more correctly a difference in semantics. My take is the frame is obviously adequate in that the coaches have lasted this long. It is however much lighter than I'd like... it flexes and is easily bent. I am of the opinion that GM chassis engineers lightened it as much as possible. They were overloading the drive line roughly twice what it was originally intended fir so they took out what they could. I'd like to drive one of the reframed coaches to see how much a stiffer frame improves the handling, if any.

--johnny


Foolish Carriage, 76 26' Eleganza(?) with beaucoup mods and add - ons. Braselton, Ga. I forgive them all, save those who hurt the dogs. They must answer to me in hell
 
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