What where you doin?
Wheeling pics would be good too if you have them.
Wheeling pics would be good too if you have them.
Frame broke
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One of my pals in Boston had that almost happen. I saw the crack before it became a break and he got it welded. When we parted the truck a year later the shackle hanger had almost ripped a chunk of frame out in a different spot. It was a rusty New England truck though...
My first FJ40 cracked the frame almost all the way 'round the front tub mount and 5-6 other places between there and the front rear spring hanger. All this on the driver's side framerail. Had several other cracks in that frame that we fixed earlier but this series was the "last straw". Parted the truck after that. It had lived the life of an unmaintained plow truck before I turned it into a wheeler which was a big part of why all the frame problems.
Nick Jennings
My first FJ40 cracked the frame almost all the way 'round the front tub mount and 5-6 other places between there and the front rear spring hanger. All this on the driver's side framerail. Had several other cracks in that frame that we fixed earlier but this series was the "last straw". Parted the truck after that. It had lived the life of an unmaintained plow truck before I turned it into a wheeler which was a big part of why all the frame problems.
Nick Jennings
Mine cracked on the driver side around the rivets-wierd, I had to double check the name on the grill didn't say heep. I welded it and boxed the frame at the sametime it held for years until I put a shackle reversal on it-much stronger now. My rigs from WA. orginally, no rust.
I will take some pics, Don't know if i can post them. I just bought the thing and towed it home on a trailer, buddy had a chain around the leaf spring by the shackle pull it back from the rear axle and binded it down POW........THAT WAS IT ..BROKE 
Half way across the world from where?
HI^C said:
You could pick up my 73 and you'd have that and more
. cheap!My frame on my 45 broke the same way just didn't take as much metal. yours is the 2nd one I've ever seen.
Whats that brown stuff on all that metal? out in california I think I've seen that stuff twice.
My rig certainly doesn't have any of that.
My rig certainly doesn't have any of that.
