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: Think it will hold????


Jawez
Feb 21st, 04, 6:13 PM
Just got my frame back from the sand blasters this week and found a couple cancer areas. The one that concerns me the most is where the front sway bar bolts to the frame. The dimpled area was pitted right through the frame :eek: . I tapped the surrounding area with a hammer and it defiently didn't feel solid at all. The first turn would have put the sway bar bushing right into the frame. Do you think the mod we did will be able to handle the force from the sway bar? We used 10 gauge steel. See the pictures below for a better understanding. The first 2 are just a picture of the overall frame. Looks pretty good!! graemlins/hurray.gif

http://members.shaw.ca/jamiebett3/images/IMG_0453.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/jamiebett3/images/IMG_0454.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/jamiebett3/images/IMG_0461.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/jamiebett3/images/IMG_0476.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/jamiebett3/images/IMG_0479.jpg

Bad Rat 414
Feb 21st, 04, 7:44 PM
Nice work. Lay the weld to it. it will hold.

Tomb7us
Feb 22nd, 04, 12:55 AM
Hey looks great check this out made the frame 10X stronger i had a crack or something on the side of the frame and my body bushing hole was gone!

http://home.earthlink.net/~baygentst/images/before.jpg

This was before

http://home.earthlink.net/~baygentst/images/after.jpg

That was after