Re: 1999 Dakota Solid Axle Swap

From: jon@dakota-truck.net
Date: Tue Aug 10 2004 - 21:56:16 EDT


Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote:
: On Aug 9, 2004, at 21:51, Terrible Tom wrote:
:> Have you made plans or considerations for the crossmember that must
:> clear the front drive shaft? Seeing Squires' truck again, I saw the
:> nice job they did notching and reinforcing the crossmember to let the
:> shaft clear. I figure you could do something almost identical to that
:> correct?

: That's the first thing I did. I considered notching the existing
: crossmember like that, but decided to build a new one instead mainly
: because I didn't think that I could keep the original piece strong
: enough to be comfortable with. The new crossmember is also serving as
: the anchor point for my track bars.

 
   Yep, Mike has been ransaking my precious, precious metal
rack <sniff> (also known as "Jon's pile of cool stuff which
hasn't been built yet") for crossmember bits. :-) Unfortunately,
he was a naughty boy and welded the outer frame rail brackets
on before the inner ones, so now he has a fun game ahead of
himself which I shall call "find the threaded holes through the
1/4" steel plate" ;-)

-- 
                                          -Jon-

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