Yeah, yeah, a picture is worth a thousand words. If I had my camera, I'd show ya.
This last weekend I was out wheeling and just sitting around in front of my pig when I noticed I had a nice crack in my front crossmember, where it meets the passenger side frame rail. Uppon further inspection, it cracked almost all of the way around. The spot that didn't crack was the upper piece of stock that is welded on top of the rail and xmember. It was still all held together fine and was only a hairline crack going through the original welds. The driver's side started getting a small crack on the bottom of the crossmember, right behind the center arm.
Now we don't have any redneck ram or anything of the sorts, just armstrong steering with 33'tsl's. Nothing to over stress the crossmember due to center arm stress. Has anyone had similar problems, besides ripping the center arm completely off? What did they do? I am planning on bracing the front a little if anymore problems occur. For now I just scrubbed er' down and used this little dentist looking bur bit to clean up the crack a little and welded it up. On the driver's side I drilled small holes at the end of the cracks before welding. Obviously I lack fabrication skills, but have read welding books, have a nicer welder than I should, and am now pretty comfortable with the mig after a year or so now. Suggestions?
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This last weekend I was out wheeling and just sitting around in front of my pig when I noticed I had a nice crack in my front crossmember, where it meets the passenger side frame rail. Uppon further inspection, it cracked almost all of the way around. The spot that didn't crack was the upper piece of stock that is welded on top of the rail and xmember. It was still all held together fine and was only a hairline crack going through the original welds. The driver's side started getting a small crack on the bottom of the crossmember, right behind the center arm.
Now we don't have any redneck ram or anything of the sorts, just armstrong steering with 33'tsl's. Nothing to over stress the crossmember due to center arm stress. Has anyone had similar problems, besides ripping the center arm completely off? What did they do? I am planning on bracing the front a little if anymore problems occur. For now I just scrubbed er' down and used this little dentist looking bur bit to clean up the crack a little and welded it up. On the driver's side I drilled small holes at the end of the cracks before welding. Obviously I lack fabrication skills, but have read welding books, have a nicer welder than I should, and am now pretty comfortable with the mig after a year or so now. Suggestions?
S
