Frame repair help

[BLZN4FN]

Well went wheeling over the weekend and bent the frame as I was looking over the K5 I found this crack

I'm trying to figure out how to repair it for Blazer Bash. Do you all think I can weld the crack and maybe put some steel plates on both sides of the frame and weld it? All I need it to make it to BBO7 and from there the body and frame are going to the dump.

Let me know what you all think

 

[BLZN4FN]

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[chiefheaphy]

ouch!

Weld the piss out of it, thrash the truck, pull the goodstuff and junk the rest.

 

[boz42]

Is that crack at the trans crossmember?

If you ground the crack clean, drill a hole at the end of it, weld it closed & then plate the frame it should hold. Easy on the heat though, or you weaken the frame at either end were you plate it.

 

[mrk5]

Holy crap! You didn't have the round spacers between the frame and crossmember did you?

I think you need to drill a hole in the end of the crack. Weld it up and plate it. I have plenty of scrap steel around the shop to fix that if you want to come up here to do it. I'm crazy enough to weld it for you, too.

Nick's started cracking there, but not near as bad. His was from those stupid round spacers moved between crossmember and frame. We replaced them with flat stock.

I was planning to fab up my own tranny crossmember this winter. I'm glad I have you to tear your rig up so I know what to fix on mine.

 

[mrk5]

Here's the trail that did all this:

 

[Element]

Holy crap! You didn't have the round spacers between the frame and crossmember did you?

I think you need to drill a hole in the end of the crack. Weld it up and plate it. I have plenty of scrap steel around the shop to fix that if you want to come up here to do it. I'm crazy enough to weld it for you, too.

Nick's started cracking there, but not near as bad. His was from those stupid round spacers moved between crossmember and frame. We replaced them with flat stock.

I was planning to fab up my own tranny crossmember this winter. I'm glad I have you to tear your rig up so I know what to fix on mine.

Any chance you could get a picture of that? My truck has the spacers between the crossmember and the frame, and if that allows the frame even more chance to crack, it's definitely something that needs fixed.

 

[Hossbaby50]

Try and align the crack as best possible. Stop drill the crack and weld it up. Grind it flat then take a piece or 2x4" 3/16 or 1/4" thick angle iron and place it over the crack and under the frame rail. Weld it on and drill new holes for the crossmember.

That is how a pro fab shop repaired mine back in the day when I ripped the chunk of frame out where the crossmember bolts. I lost about a 1.5x3" piece of frame rail that encompassed both tranny crossmember bolts. My trans and tcase were trying to fall out of the truck. This was back in my days before wheeling, I was just on a dirt fireroad and it gave out. I had to jack the crossmember back up and chain the crossmember in place to get home. That was my first real trail fix.

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

Drill it and weld it, then put some kind of plate over it. It will hold fine over BB.

 

[mrk5]

Any chance you could get a picture of that? My truck has the spacers between the crossmember and the frame, and if that allows the frame even more chance to crack, it's definitely something that needs fixed.

That truck is long gone. The only thing I can find is the original frame crack that we repaired. It developed more problems elsewhere in the frame.

 

[BLZN4FN]

Holy crap! You didn't have the round spacers between the frame and crossmember did you?

I think you need to drill a hole in the end of the crack. Weld it up and plate it. I have plenty of scrap steel around the shop to fix that if you want to come up here to do it. I'm crazy enough to weld it for you, too.

Nick's started cracking there, but not near as bad. His was from those stupid round spacers moved between crossmember and frame. We replaced them with flat stock.

I was planning to fab up my own tranny crossmember this winter. I'm glad I have you to tear your rig up so I know what to fix on mine.

No spacers on the crossmember. Well I know what I will be doing this weekend doing some welding

 

[firefighter184]

I better check mine out, seeing as how I ripped the bolt for the crossmember right out on OCG.

 

[70jimmy]

Ahh the curse of the old Chinaman and his brother Carnage

it broke my steering arm which was welded and should have broken long before, trashed a brake line, trashed a hub, cracked the frame where the shock mount attached because of a shock that was too short and didn't allow for the droop, and dented it.

 

[doonjumper]

Just Use some JB weld and you'll be fine.

 

[spoolnaround]

Just Use some JB weld and you'll be fine.

Slight Hijack (sorry)

Hey ****er! You would use JB weld too. When is the last time your rig hit the sand or pavement? Doing Dusey Aug 18-22 if you want go. Craig.

 

[chiefheaphy]

Weld it and hold the **** on. As long as you dont hit 88 you'll be fine!

Whatever you do..dont use 1.21 JW of power cause plutonium was only sold at corner stores in Hill valley in the 80's. Drill it. Weld it. Be safe. What was I thinking?

 

[doonjumper]

Slight Hijack (sorry)

Hey ****er! You would use JB weld too. When is the last time your rig hit the sand or pavement? Doing Dusey Aug 18-22 if you want go. Craig.

Lol whats upman? Actully it in shop getting 400 put in. I cracked that 350 I bought from you three years back. Long story lol. It happend at pismo first ten minutes I was out of the first day. Oh well. I'll get back to you on that trip. Is that a prison tat?