Welcome Visitor! Please take a few seconds and Register
for our forum. Even if you don't want to post, you can still 'Like' and react to posts.
Blame Ford all ya want but my '89 chassis only broke a shackle mount after I rolled it and had to do this to straighten it out, like 3 years later I welded a 7/8" wrench to the top of the frame and the shackle mount in camp, it's still that way...
You should try the half frame replacement sometime
Frame rails are ok. The crossmember above the spare tire was starting to rot, plus a few pinholes around where it attaches to the frame. So, new spring hangers, crossmember and frame repairs, and a coat of chassis saver over everything.
A couple months ago I payed a muddy donut down at work and covered two 1997 F-250's that my boss owns in mud. Pissed him off real bad. Oops. So I sent him this pic with the text attached that said " you know how much I love donuts in the morning
" He replied "bastard!" Figured enough time had passed that we could joke about it 
My 00 the frame rails looked like Swiss cheese, I kid you not. I did a half frame, but now there’s some holes in the front section. I can patch those though
2x4 120 wall frame time
Nope, I’ll use C when I build a frame. Get rust started in a square tube and it grows like fire. C and some care building and there won’t be really any place to hold water and start rust. I did that with the little trailer I rebuilt. It had a rectangle tube frame that had been capped off and it rotted to junk. I built a new frame out of 3” C. Where it had to be boxed it got painted with grease and capped with a rubber plug. Rust will have to find somewhere else
Dude...92 late....they changed metallurgy....then sometime before split frames changed it again...then again with sla.Your state is junk, all my bare steel frames from 24-32 years ago are just fine
I don't envy you guys dealing with the rust belt...
Become a Supporting Member:
Or a Supporting Vendor:
