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Simple, Frame is cracked :(

your truck was in an accident once. the driverside frame rail should be shaped like the passenger with the exception of where the steering box mounts. the big kink in the top of the frame is from a hit.

just be glad you caught the cracks before they got worse. My box tore completely off when I was in the woods. it was a 4 hour mess getting t back to my trailer.
 
I have a friend that has been a welder for 25yrs. He says he will weld it up plate it and brace it for 600.00 parts and all. Is that a good deal?
 
Some friend...

I ain't cheap and I'd do it for 1/2 that, and I don't know you from Jack...
 
Some friend X2

Thats crazy! Hell you made it easy by pulling the front clip so it shouldn't cost more than $100.
 
thats good if the labor rate is 300 an hour... for every welder in your area, if not, f that, go rent a welder and do it
 
What? are you the new Jeremy with unreasonable times on jobs? :haha:

It's certainly not a 2 hr job if done nicely... It's not just welding up cracks... Cutting plates or fitting a weld-in brace, grinding, stop-drilling, v-ing, etc is gonna take more time than that...

But still, a nice job could be done in 4 to 6 hrs...
 
4 to 6 hours then, a mobile welder will cost about 600 bucks, but as a friend? i have better enemies than that....
 
haha, true that.... most welders I know are 60 to 80 an hr...

so even at 80 with the guy figuring 6 hrs, that leaves 120 for material... no deal there fo sure...
 
there has to be more then one person in your town with a welder. go to ORD's website and order the patch panels and bolt in brace. anyone can weld them in. or go buy a welder and do it yourself. the welder will be a valuable tool that you will use again and again.

If you were to take the parts to the machine shop I use(my dad runs it) they would charge you about $100 to weld it all together. does the local high school have a auto shop? or is there a local tech school? there are always options. look for someone with a restored muscle car in their driveway. they know someone with a welder.
 
Seriously. You can get a 230A arc welder for $200 and do it yourself.
 
Do you know where Princeton is? A little east of Mckinney. If you can get the truck there, it can be fixed real cheap. A hundred bucks at most for the steering box repairs.
I would order the weld in patch and the brace.
 
Ok found a good guy that says he will weld it and plate it for 350.00 sounds good to me.

But when he was looking at my truck we found that the passanger side rear shock mount has been busted out befor and welded back up. Is this a comon thing? and will it effect the strenght of my frame?

Man will all the probs im finding with the frame it might be easyer to just do a frame swap :)

How hard is a frame swap to do? And can you do one in the drive way? I dont have a shop:D
 
a shock mount breaking is not uncommon. once you fix the steering you are stuck with that frame. it's easier to keep fixing little thing then to swap everything to another frame. the next frame is going to need a steering brace/repair so why go to all the effort.
 
It's funny that you still haven't korrected the speeling in the first post. :haha:
 
sho_shane said:
Its not that funny :D
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I thought it was. I was gonna post and find out why his FRAM hasn't been changed yet. It's been awhile, figured he'd of driven 3K by now :haha:
 
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