Moving along the car started shaking again mostly when it shifted. The frame rail on the passenger side with the crack I felt had gotten worse. I had already cut a torq box to torq box section from a 4 door Grand Marquis I had stripped to the bare frame.
So for my 2 week X-mass break took the car to my friends frame shop. He did restorations and built frames for race cars. Great guy. He charged me half price and I helped in installing the new one.
Because of the rust in the car i had been looking for a better one for a couple years.
Figured cheeper to find a good one than fix this one. Found a few but were gone before I could check them out.
As we were working on the car I was joking about finding one probably about 2 weeks after all this work.