Posted by Willy-N on Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 5:48PM :
In Reply to: Consider this posted by Paul(in NY) on Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 5:17PM :
I am not the one who is going to do this. I can't weld worth beans. I was having a shop take care of it who was licences and bonded for doing these kind of things to trucks. I just did a lot of research on the net and found many shops who cut frames and put fish plates on them over the welded sections. This is also a standard way of shortning the frames other then moving the rear end assembleys forward. It seems more problems to get the camber right, the 4 main cross members back in place right and the 80+ Rivets drilled and reinstalled back in(I just counted them)to new holes drilled and either using Huckbolts or re/torking all the grade 8 bolts on a regular basis to keep them tight. But I will take it into concideration when the shop tells me how they will shorten it up. I am still researching how this is done to trucks. I have learned the frame is not the high tensil type you can't weld safely on they use quite often now. Mark H.
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