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Jordan:

Welcome to the forum. I live right down the road for you off Hw5 in Marietta!

Alan is over in Roswell.

Good work so far. I been there done that and got the merit badge.

Few warnings. I saw where Mark told you about the hidden rivets. I was able to drill them from the back side enough to weaken them and the took a stiff putty knife and sheared them off without having to remove the outer panels.

When we pulled ours apart we learned these coaches are built upside down. Well not the body but the frame and floor. See the last couple pages of the full Monty post. The belly pan was on before the body. What you are going to find that will be the easiest way to deal with this is to go around and drill the rivets on the ribs that join them to the U-channel. Drill the outer ring of rivets at the base of the shell. Drill the rivets out of the plat on the A-Frame and you will be able to lift the shell off the frame.

I actually did this by myself with a pair of floor jacks and 2x4 wider then the body. Here are some pictures of the results. YOU MUST SECURE THE BODY WHEN ITS OFF THE FRAME! I cant stress that enough. The wind will blow it away if you don't. There are pictures of a on this site of a 28ft that was off the frame and the wind picked it up and blew it over and destroyed it. In the pictures I posted I drove 2x4's into the ground a couple feet as a support and to secure it. It faired a few good storms that way.

Anyway once you get the body off then you can deal with the Belly pan.