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05-19-2009, 04:25 AM
|  | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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Invalid Attachment specified. If you followed a valid link, please notify the administrator....Only 5 pictures per post?
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05-19-2009, 04:32 AM
| | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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| | Body Mounts (FRAME)
Pictures from prior post, hopefully? 102_0292.jpg 102_0295.jpg 102_0291.jpg |
05-19-2009, 04:37 AM
| | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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05-19-2009, 04:46 AM
| | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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05-19-2009, 05:17 AM
| | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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| | Body Mounts (FRAME)
Check out the beefy stock X-member and rear body mount next to the C-channel.
If I remember correctly the body mount hole diameter is 1 5/16".
I broke down and obtain two unibits (varibit). I also returned Quadratrac rubber mounts (Trail Boss?) for factory style rubber with stainless sleeves (Willys Overland). I will trim the sleeves later. 102_0707.jpg 102_0711.jpg 102_0710.jpg 102_0708.jpg 102_0716.jpg |
05-19-2009, 05:23 AM
| | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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| | Body Mounts (FRAME)
I took some S%^# for adding the factory hexes and only made 5 body mounts. The middle (of the front three) driver's side mount was move down 1/4" and backward (Possibly forward?) about a 1/2" or more. Obviously one guy did the left side and another the right side of the frame.
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05-19-2009, 05:59 AM
| | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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| | Overlapping Tabs (RUST)
Cut-off tabs and butt-ended all overlapping metal, except the body mounts; (left flange bend slightly less than 90 degree to "seal weld") and Taft welded around the rear shock mounts and spring hangers. The front X-member, axle snubber (Dana 30), gas tank x-member, exhaust hanger, rear brake line mount, ect. Some notches or slit were made, then tapped down in order to be butt-end welded to frame rail. The notches were filled in later.
Front X-member: 102_0344_00.jpg 102_0350_00.jpg 102_0353.jpg 102_0440.jpg 102_0460.jpg |
05-19-2009, 06:37 AM
| | Apprentice | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: NW Wisconsin
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| | Overlapping Tabs (RUST)
Gas Tank Skid Plate (Which was cut-off when squaring / leveling the frame): 102_0358_00.jpg 102_0357.jpg 102_0446.jpg |
05-19-2009, 06:50 AM
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WOW! It looks like you did everything right! Great job, beautiful work! Great write-up and pictures! That's the way it should be done but few people bother.
That's a bear to do with a propane torch. It's a llittle late now, but you should watch the classified ads for a used acetylene outfit.
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