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rust belt fun times ( pics up ) UPDATE: frame = swiss cheese new plan

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UPDATE: frame / hanger pic's of the rust damage post 34-35:popcorn:

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out with friend talking about my k30 plow truck tonight and found a rust hole in the front hanger for rear spring mount section of frame. :doah:

best part was i could stick my finger threw it and make the hole bigger with no damage to my skin. :eek1:

looks like time to plan on doing somthing this summer with it. :whistle:

and no i am not going to patch it up. i got other idea's for the truck :popcorn:

will post pics monday .

pic #1 pass side front hanger area hole opened up that size by my index finger :eek1:

pic #2 pass side frame rail after front hanger and the rusty rod in the midle of the pic at angle is my shock shaft :doah:

pic #3 left spring hanger frame section scale so bad if i picked at it it would open up BAD see hole to left

pic #4 driverside frame rail major scale rust.

fyi if you have rusty frames best check them now and then . . :whistle:

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My driverside foward rear spring hanger rotted out on my truck too and it took many cutoff wheels and a lot of cursing to get it out.
 
ya problem is 2 of the biggest rock salt plants within 1.5 hr drive from me. :doah:

and its the frame for me not the hanger . :eek1:

and i wounder why i wana be a mechanic for a job :haha:
 
76zimmer said:
wow Brett....SALT SUCKS!
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No lie there, I'm scrapping out my daily driver(car) due to rust. Looks great in/out but major rust on the under body.

Last fall I picked up a '88 K1500 plow truck with good sheet metal and scrapped it out due to frame rusted through in multiple spots. Still made money off the truck but wasn't what I had planned.
 
I know the feeling. 6 out of the last 8 Blazers I've had I got rid of soley due to rust.
 
My 82 K2500's frame is getting rusty in spots too,last summer when I decided to put a receiver trailer hitch on it,after replacing a completely rotted away spring shackle and u-bolt plate ,one on each side,I noticed the frame was getting rather thin where the receiver would bolt to,and at the front hanger for the rear spring ....but when I went to drill holes in the frame it was still pretty tough to drill thru,so I guess it has a few years left in it......................................................................................................Last winter ,I was about blind thanks to cataracts,and while plowing my driveway I was backing up in a blizzard and the truck started sliding into the snowbank,and threatened to high center on it and get me stuck,so I cut the wheel and floored it,to pull it away from the banking--........................................................................................................--but the telephone pole in my yard got in my way,I hit it with the drivers side with the 6" channel iron bumper I put on after I put the hitch on--one I thought would NEVER bend,but it folded over like a pretzel,and I bounced the trucks left stepside fender off the pole HARD,going maybe 15 mph backwards,leaving a nice imprint of the pole in the fender:mad: :doah:..............................................................................I was very surprised the frame didn't bend,or snap off at the rear hanger,I guess the receiver hitch and the channel iron bumper spread the forces out enough so as not to ruin the frame....truck still tracks straight ,so I guess nothing got shoved out of alignment too badly--trailer hitch looks like it might be slightly off center now though...:(...the frame will likely fail at some time in the not so distant future I bet............................................................I had about 5 miles to go before the U-bolt plate would have completely failed on the rear drivers side and got me killed too,it was paper thin and most of it was GONE completely,ditto for the rear shackle on the passenger side...the u-bolt plate on that side is next",its crumbling more every time I use the truck..................................................................I hate rust,every problem I have with my vehicles is directly related to RUST...and every one I've had ,ended up being scrapped because it never sleeps,and sitting makes them rot away 10 times faster than one used daily...I need to move to AZ,if I want to own anything that wont dissapear in 10 years I guess..rust SUCKS....................................................................Last year the guy who plowed my friends car lot out asked him to use the lift to change his oil and inspect the truck for "a weird noise"...as we lifted it,I saw the top of the bed near the cab start slanting away from the cab,and I yelled "STOP"!!!..the frame was completly rusted thru just behind the cab,and it broke right off cleanly,leaving only the bottom "lip" of the "C" to hold it together...the guy said "eh,just WELD it bak together"--my friend said NO,even my mig wont weld antything THAT thin without just blowing thru it!..the guy got mad,told him he'd "use it as is,fugggit"...he plowed with it and drove it another few weeks before he decided he had to park it!--still asks my friend to "patch it up" for him,but he wont do it,and I dont blame him...too much liability if it should fold up and kill someone...be OK if it was a "yard only plow" rig,to cob some channel iron to hold it together,but this guy would drive it everywhere if it were "fixed"...
 
Its funny you should post this. Im about to go update the isuzu build thread with the title "building custom box tube frame to solve rust issue this summer"
 
RAWR!!!!!:zombie15::zombie3::zombie18::zombie7: (not mine, plow truck blazer that was for sale all winter by me)

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Floor replaced by.... Wooden pallet lol

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seen worse deuling and plowed with much worse on private proporty only tho till the cab floor droped out and body bolt punched a hole in take ( 70 gmc truck ) and then i just put gal milk jug on front seat and hose over seat to suction line to plow driveway with. :haha:
 
Yikes.....that all seems to be an east coast thing. Out here our cars/trucks dont rust like that. My 87 blazer has extremely mild rust and only where things have scraped through to bare metal.

Almost seems like it would be worthwile to buy a car from the west coast and ship it to the east coast.
 
We rust belt people are rebels. You guys should see our brake lines haha you would $hit a brick at what a "good" brakeline here looks like lol.
 
Wow! That's some serious rust. I don't know that I have ever seen rust like that even in old trucks sitting in a field around here....it rarely snows enough to ever put salt out...maybe 10 times in 50 years...I don't think the anchor chain on the Titanic is that bad...that's the frame that rusted isn't it? Looks like barnacles...what do you do with one like that?
 
Wow, I've seen that bad in Minnesota and Wisconsin. I couldn't deal with it.

And out here people **** bricks over surface rust and very minor rust issues.
 
Shoot, that frames good for another tirty years :D ya big woosies lol. You guys should come up here and check out some of our vehicles, you guys may apreciate good sheet metal a little more and have a better understanding of why i flip donkey $hit every time someone mentions fender trimming on some nice sheet metal!!!!
 
Deuling said:
Shoot, that frames good for another tirty years :D ya big woosies lol. You guys should come up here and check out some of our vehicles, you guys may apreciate good sheet metal a little more and have a better understanding of why i flip donkey $hit every time someone mentions fender trimming on some nice sheet metal!!!!
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I've been a sheetmetal advocate since I joined :deal:

Some of the builds I've seen here (while badass) make me want to puke, like come on you couldn't find a crappier truck to do that to?


But remember, we always have something on those south westerners...
our dash boards aren't cracked and brittle :flipoff7:
 
my first k-10 was a rustbucket from upstate ny. I remember seeing vehicles over there that didn't have bedsides and were driving around much less rocker panels.
 
All that rust is scary shat for us left coasters.
 
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