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pseudomike

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Looking for frame rails for use in a frame boxing project. I plan on going from say the trans cross member to the front bumper. Local would probably be best. I have big torches so I could come whack them off your parts truck before you scrapped it or something.

Mike
 
Honestly, so long as they were cut clean and match-line marked...sawszall or something I could probably take them quartered...as long as they weren't whacked in a key location like the shackle mounting area. I don't need the cross members, just the rails and really only up to the most forward cross member. Could probably make 4 4' sections out of them. Of course thats a boat load of time on your end and shipping might be pricey. I'd consider it if no-one local chimes in.
 
It would be way cheaper on your end to just buy new plate and cut it to fit than ship what I have. I cut it up with a sawzall, but nothing precise.
 
I may go that route too...of course I would need a good way to cut it and bend it unless I wanted to weld in a bunch of little pieces where the frame goes in and out. I figure it would be way easier to slice up OE rails and weld them on the backside? Anybody done this?
 
Ideally I would like a complete CUCV p/u frame but would settle for 81-87 3/4 for use in boxing mine. My truck is a K3500 but the frame was pretty rusty so I stuffed a K2500 frame under it that I had. it's in decent shape but I'm pulling the body off this summer and plan to either box the frame or better yet box a CUCV frame. I would prefer the CUCV route as I could box it over the winter and lay out the Cummins thats going in there. I haven't had much luck in finding a frame locally. Either I just miss them, they are shot like mine was, or they are 2000 miles away.
 
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Second question, what price range? I might part out the truck in my avatar, its a 87 3/4.
Third question, how soon do you need something.
 
If it were a CUCV frame I would like it ASAP so i can start working on it. If it's a parts frame I really wouldn't need it until I tear mine apart which won't be until the snow stops flying. The CUCV frames I have seen are $300 or less. I saw a couple go free, a couple for $50. I could buy new sheet metal for a couple hundred bucks and fab it together so it really isn't worth more than that to me.
 
If you want it, and we can figure out how to get it to you, I have the frame of a '94 ex-cab long bed truck down here in No. VA....

Interested?
 
pseudomike said:
Looking for frame rails for use in a frame boxing project. I plan on going from say the trans cross member to the front bumper. Local would probably be best. I have big torches so I could come whack them off your parts truck before you scrapped it or something.

Mike
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I have an 83 3/4 ton frame, I want $100 for it, I could cut it any way you want with my plazma, and I could get it to you for cheap I will let you know how cheap in a day or so.
I am thinking no more than $100. Interested?
 
That might be an option. 1TonMudder has a CUCV frame about a 1000 miles away. I'm waiting for some pics from him. 1000 miles away might sound crazy but not if you live in the rust belt.
 
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