This afternoon I got started on stipping off the pieces remaining on the frame. I need to strip down the frame in order to clean it up and get it sandblasted and painted. I started with the frame pads, originally made out of horse hair, that cushion the body against the frame. Here is a picture of the frame with all of the components remaining attached. Also to the right is a picture of the VIN stamped into the frame, which is located at the front right of the frame just next to the engine on the driver's side.
The horse hair frame pads I mostly removed by scraping under them with a putty knife. I wore gloves because there is a lot of rust and grit and, although I had a tetanus shot a couple of years ago, no good can come of cutting your hands with rusty metal.
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page from 311s.org has a good diagram of where all of the frame pads are located, which is especially useful when putting the car back together when the pads will be long-forgotten. After removing the frame pads I started pulling off the rubber squares at the location of each frame-to-body bolt. The rubber squares have holes in the middle through which the bolts go.
I also removed the rubber squares by working the putty knife underneath and prying upwards. The squares towards the middle of the car were mounted onto the frame by these metal clips that slid onto brackets on the frame.
I pulled off all of the brackets as well.
Here is a look at all of the rubber squares and the metal frame clips.
