Desert Rat said:
I have the MOO crossmember and he fabbed up some rear bolt on shock mounts for me. The quality on mine was excellent. The welds on the crossmember look almost like they were done with a welding robot. What parts did you get that didn't cut it?
this might be kinda long, I will try to make it short as possible. I have the crossmember, the 14ff truss, and the 14ff diff cover. to start my crossmember had what I would consider puny or less then adequate welds for the application that were not very uniform and did not appear to have good penetration based on the raised doming of the weld. there were a few too many start and stop points to me along a rather long span. I dont claim to be the greatest welder in the world but I have 15 years of self taught experience and I did spend very recently over a year in welding school and have 3 certifications in welding myself.
the crossmember, the fit was crap, NONE of the holes lined up worth a damn. I had to slot just about every hole to get the bolts to go in, and mind you the holes were quite a bit larger then the bolts diameter to begine with. when I fab something using 3/8 bolts I drill a 13/32 (.406) hole. I think theres were allready at 7/16(.4375). I finally got it in though with quite a few C clamps in place to close up all the gaps. took me quite a few hours of fighting to get it installed. I drilled and added some extra bolts, which I felt were for good measure.
the diff cover looks and seems fine. I have not checked its fit to see if all the holes line up on the housing yet. I bought a Crane diff cover instead anyways. I will run that cover on another truck.
on to the real trouble. the truss did not fit at all. I tried everything I could to get it to fit. when I called Steve Frisbie which took almost two weeks to reach him on the problem all he said was "I have made hundreds of them and havn't had a single one returned. the diff cover ring part might have got bent in shipping, put a big C clamp on it, it will fit." well I tried that too, it didn't.
what I found to be the problem was the hole locations for the pinion mount side were way off. I band sawed off the welded on bracket and tried to just bolt the bracket to the housing, only the two outer bolts would thread in to the housing. the middle one would not cause the hole was so far off. again, quite a big hole over the bolt diameter allready.
so now with the welded bracket completely off the truss I put the truss on the axle to see how it fit. 10 of the 14 diff bolts threaded in while 4 would not cause the location of the holes were off. the holes are again 7/16 holes over a 3/8 bolt. I had to open ALL the holes up to 29/64 (.453) to allow the truss to move around enough so all the diff bolts would thread in. ofcourse I had to fab up a new pinion mount bracket and weld it on. now it fits fine.
it took almost 4 months to get my truss from when I ordered it. after several weeks of waiting I called, and called, and called some more. I finally got a return call saying he had broke his bender and was waiting for a new part. ok fine, but why not answer the phone or atleast return a call. from then it took many, many calls and still over 2 and 1/2 months to get what I had ordered. then to have nothing fit right and have to rework just about everything like I did, what a joke.
I did not forget what he told me though. when ever someone has a problem and needs my help I joking say "just put a big C clamp on it, it will work".
I realized just how poor the design of the crossmember and the truss was once it got to my door step and I had a chance to look it over. but that is another story I dont care to go into. sufice to say I WILL make myown from now on. you would have thought he would have gave me a bit of a discount for waiting so long, or atleast a damn sticker................nope, nothin.
so that is my story, exactly as it happened.
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