Frame Rail sections, and Ft. spring perches


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Posted by Will Liebscher on Thursday, July 03, 2003 at 4:02AM :

In Reply to: Re: Frame Rail sections, X-memb. and spring purchases. posted by Brian in Oregon on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 at 9:37PM :

Brian, Well, Here we go. I would like to have gone thru regular email, but I don't have yours in my own directory.
Shipping cost? Yes, I'll just have to bite the bullet, or get it relayed down here by some alternate and creative method. Without the crossmember, I envision only 2 castings and 2 short pieces of frame, yet to be measured exactly, by me. Probably less than 2 Ft each. I think I can afford it, even by UPS.
By all means, satisfy your local friends etc. I'll take last. I don't need the rear springs, if I wasn't clear on that. Just the rear purchase from the front springs. The casting riveted to the frame. (B/H mount).
As for the frame rails. I specifically need the 2 or so feet aft from behind the rear edge of the front crossmember. Right frame rail, and left frame rail. I am not jigging engine mounts with this. I have a demo chassis for that, and also my own vehicle and about 6 others. I want to fit the outside or back of my front mounting brackets, to the inside of the frame rail. I have already done this in the demo chassis. I want a short demo piece. To be exact, my front brackets will index to one of the two holes in the side of each frame rail. They will also index to the top rivet in each frame rail/fish plate. For the installation of my front brackets, no measuring will be necessary. How's that for idiot proof! Anyhow, my demo chassis is at Ed Iskys in Gardena. I will measure it tomorrow and give you the exact length for weight savings. I don't need these as a mounting jig, I need them as a fitment & model. Your bend probably won't affect my needs for this part. Where the frame splays out near the firewall is not in the area which I'm asking for.
I don't want any frame extenders for my 880. I have two sets. I was just illucidating this as a tip for others in the community out there, who may want to extend their late model Dodge frames. Forget the 880 frame extenders. Just a tip from my vast body of worhless utilitarian knowledge.
Spring Perches. Yes, these are the ones to which the original B/H mounts. You can keep the old broken B/H pieces. Interesting, you and Daniel are the only ones I've ever heard of with broken B/H's. In the interest of lightness against the cost of shipping, if you would remove the rivets, probably best done before cutting the frame, the castings would fall off the frame, and be much lighter. Those rivets are a bitch.
The transfer cross member is not missing from the M43. I don't really need it right now, but I hate to see a good part go down. It can be bolted in as a third crossmember, in a long frame, to step back the transfer case one whole "unit". Thus giving added length underneath for long 5 or 6 speeds, planetary overdrives, brownie boxes, or a long engine/powerpac assy. So I just save them. By all means, use it yourself, but don't forget to save its frame brackets to go with it. (Was that what you called "webbing"?)
The front frame extensions. I put down 1/2 of an M37 which had a huge weldment/winch on the front rails like yours. The rails in front of the front crossmember were junk, like yours. Saving yours was just an Idea, because I hate to see good parts go down. I am a scavenger and a utilitarian. I don't need them.
So all I'd like are the two spring perches, as light as possible, and two short pieces of frame rail. I will measure and email or post here, late tomorrow. If you don't mind, what is your email addy. Mine is Oclip@hotmail.com. I may be going to the Natl Convention at Alameda in a month, or you can give them to someone from So Cal and relay them to me if necessary. Thanx Will Liebscher






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