After these pictures, I got another wind and finished stripping and grinding.Now that it is bare, this is the time for beefing up the frame.How do I do it?I have been told to only weld lengthwise on a frame.Do I make 1/4 inch steel plates and encapsulate the frame,only welding lengthwise at seams? Do I drill a buttload of holes and rosett weld it?Any help here?

 

I've never heard of only welding length wise on the frame, but I think cutting the holes and doing the rosett welds sounds like a good idea (I'd plasma out the holes instead of drilling them, be quicker, If I owned a plasma that is, lol) something like this:



I'm sure whatever you come up with, it will be bad@$$!!!

 

Thanks Ed,those frame re enforcements should be easy to copy.Today I wire wheeled the battery area, because of surface rust.After that I put 2 coats of heavy duty anti rust primer over it.Oh yea I ended up wire wheeling the entire inner fender, so I can paint it.

 

id beef up that core support brian, looks weak since they cut it

 

Way ahead of you on the core support, Curtis.When I mounted the radiator, I made a mock up core support.I'm going to use it as a pattern to build a much better one in the near future.This is the inside of the one fender, finished.I'm going to build a nice little battery holder, that will go in soon.

 

build your battery box out of angle iron, thats what i did and it looks great

 

Old bed frames are great to use the metal from,for battery boxes.I have been cutting them up for years.

 

ive had bad luck with bed frames! built a light bar for my old bronco 2 for one and we could hardly cut it, drill it, and weld it, broke bandsaw blades cutting it, melted drill bits, and the weld would always crack, i hate springed steel

 

Ha ha,you only use the mild steel, angle iron frame for the boxspring.Yea, I bet useing spring steel was a bixxx.lmfao

 

The engine compartment is looking good!

 

Today in between rain showers I got the inside of the other fender finished.

 

Ed showed me some pretty cool frame re enforcement plates from trailgear.This Saturday I,m going to attempt to copy them.Then motor mounts and back together.

 

Looking good

 

These are a set of 350 swap motor mounts from Downey offroad. These use factory mount points,basically its just a tab that mounts with the 350 mounts farther forward.It leaves the factory motor mounts in the way of the exhaust.So....

 

So I cut them and am going to make mounts farther forward on the frame,that these will bolt to.

 

These are what the green ones will bolt to.I tac welded these with the engine in place.They are not exactly even,but they fit perfect.

 

It's looking good Brian, your getting close!!!

 

lookin good brian!

 

Hey Brian, I had to give your thread a bump to see what's up! I need my update fix, LOL.

 

YEAH, .... we needs "VROOM-VROOM" video, asap! hahahaha. JK, looking great, man!