Thread: Frame work

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Originally Posted by 53 Chevy5

Wow, you did a fantastic job cutting the frame and making look correct, I see you plated it correctly also. I'm sure it was a PITA but if your like me you would have looked at whats wrong every time you look at the vehicle. It was worth your time to do it. I had a similar thing with my 53 when I did the rear end. I had all my measurements double checked and I had everything perfect according to how the original 53 frame measured. The problem came in where they put the rear end from the factory caused wheels to be too far forward making then un-centered in the rear fender. I never really noticed until after the pickup was painted. My fix wasn't as involved as yours but I did end up moving the rear wheels back 1 1/2 inches.

Thanks for the compliment man.

I had to fix one that was way more involved than that one. That one was fairly straight forward because it was put in nicely just a little to long. But man I have another buddy whos clip was installed ugly, unsafe, and just a complete mess. People were talking him he need a new clip at the least maybe a new frame. I figured out a way to set it right. It drive nice and looks decent now.

Before





Is that just unbelievable that he was driving around on that. The guy that done that awful work had the nerve to tell my buddy his truck was dog tracking one day when he was driving behind him.lol

Well here are the after pics






This is it at one of our local carshows. My buddy is happy and the truck handles really nice now.


I've seen a lot of bad clip installations over the years but that was by far the worst I've ever seen or fixed.