Build Chronicles of Bonnie and Clyde
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I'm a little disoriented Jon as to what is where. Are you working backwards and that's the rear crossmember? Are you going to have a square hole that you need to patch in the crossmember or elsewhere in the frame? I think my confusion is you started cutting a round tube and somehow morphed into a square tube.
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Bumper hitches by Escher...
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This was likely an option few chose to have added from the factory. Words really don't explain it...probably reason why it wasn't a popular option. I like to think for some unknown godly reason the rear frame was beefed up with multiple 1/4 braces, one of which attached the end of the hitch sleeve because it must have been painfully obvious to the engineers you couldn't safely pull a 20k trailer the way it was. So additional measures were taken to reinforce the hitch sleeve and it was also welded to the rear crossmember. Mostly to make it a total f***ing mess to get freed up.
Once this is free I can cut the pipe off the spare tire cross member and where it is firmly welded in place to the mechanism to lower the spare...
The precision is impressive considering it was done without CAD or 3D renditions.
This was likely an option few chose to have added from the factory. Words really don't explain it...probably reason why it wasn't a popular option. I like to think for some unknown godly reason the rear frame was beefed up with multiple 1/4 braces, one of which attached the end of the hitch sleeve because it must have been painfully obvious to the engineers you couldn't safely pull a 20k trailer the way it was. So additional measures were taken to reinforce the hitch sleeve and it was also welded to the rear crossmember. Mostly to make it a total f***ing mess to get freed up.
Once this is free I can cut the pipe off the spare tire cross member and where it is firmly welded in place to the mechanism to lower the spare...
The precision is impressive considering it was done without CAD or 3D renditions.
I personally don't think that was from the factory Jon regardless of how well it was done....but I've been wrong before.
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So on a serious note, why would they have put that tube in there? Maybe whoever owned it had a flat one night and couldn't hit the hole to get the spare down? Took it to his local fix um up boys and said give me a foolproof sleeve? Boggles the mind.
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Steve shared more progress on Bonnie. We are pretty excited to get her home!
Working out some quirks with AC compressor clutch issues. Fuel sender acting up. Brakes also acting up so he is looking into the booster.
Closer every day!
Working out some quirks with AC compressor clutch issues. Fuel sender acting up. Brakes also acting up so he is looking into the booster.
Closer every day!
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Home grown remedy to what we don’t know.
Neighbor has torch and it’s only suppose to be 91 tomorrow so gonna see if he can help me out.
Probably no takers today since heat index suppose to be 115.
Jon, I was in the shop this morning and took a look at my frame. You are missing the rear crossmember that serves as the gas tank support. It also has the guide for the rod used to lower the spare. So I assume that one has/had an aftermarket tank? Apologies if I'm not keeping up with the story properly. Just thinking this extra tube, etc. might have been a tow hitch, larger tank combo project.
