The end of the old blue K10

[BoondocK5]

I just finished installing the 205 I rebuilt. I was taking a little rest laying on my snapon creeper.
Looking around under the ol' girl.
Look what I find...
This will probably be the end of her.
Shit.

 

[tRustyK5]

It's just steel. Cut, grind, weld, reinforce, brace.

Sucky, but easier than starting from scratch on something else...

 

[BoondocK5]

Will a weld in patch kit, fix this?

 

[Hogback Fabrication]

I've seen way worse than that. Fix what you have the best you can, then the weld on and bolt on braces that we do and you probably won't have to worry about it again.

 

[imiceman44]

Will a weld in patch kit, fix this?

It will help but you need to put a brace too.
I had it worse, the box fell off with the piece of frame between the 4 bolts and the crack went all the way to the bottom of the frame and the front frame horn flipped up 90 degrees.
I pulled it down with a come along, strapped the box on, drove it off the trail all the way home and put the patch on.
Got a couple of more years before I scrapped it because of too many cracks in the frame.

 

[obijuank5]

Tis but a crack. Fix er up no problem.

 

[blazinzuk]

I agree a mere flesh wound.

I have fixed some pretty bad frames right there. Get a weld in kit and the ORD brace and never think about it again

 

[Fordum]

FWIW, I bought my F250 (3/4 ton, LWB) brand new in 1989. I never saw it when it came in on the truck. It was driven straight to a aftermarket shop. They pulled the bed off, cut the frame in half and shortened it to SWB specs.
Then put a SWB body on it, painted it, and sent it to me. Then I started doing some modifying.
No rock climbing here in FL, but I'm still driving that truck today, and the twisting stress that has been done to it crossing rivers and coming down off banks is easily equivalent to some of the usual rock stuff.
Despite both sides of the frame being cut in half, its still as straight and strong as when I first got it.
You should be able to make your cracked frame as strong as factory, and maybe even stronger. Just make sure to do a very careful inspection to find all the cracks and fix them at the same time.

Maybe a pressure wash, and parking it with first one wheel and then another on a small block to stress and open any other cracks then mark them with paint or chalk.

 

[tenderfoot]

Need to put a question mark after the title of this thread.

 

[BoondocK5]

On to the repair...

 

[tenderfoot]

Holy moly

 

[sreidmx]

Wow that’s a good one!!

 

[tenderfoot]

So uhhhh, JB Weld?

 

[sweetk30]

yep fix it .

square it up / grind out the cracks for a good fill weld . drill a small 1/8" hole at the ends of the cracks so it wont spread .

weld in repair plate kit do aspr the instructions .

bolt in box brace kit .

drive the snot out of it .