Some times I over think things. I just don't feel like doing it twice, like when I built my long shaft mud motor for my duck boat I obsessed about rusting; rust is going to kill it, rust is going to kill it, rust is going to kill it, so I built the whole thing in stainless ( had the stuff laying aro...

Has anybody else had any problems with body flex? I bent my rear door about a year ago and it just occurred to me that the rear doors might make up some sort of stiffening member in the design of the body. My doors still close, but the passenger side one is bent out at the top about 1/2". In so...

Here's a pic of a tubular frame that looks like something to start with.
I think the color and pinion angle of the front drive shaft are especially important :-k

That was the first solution I thought of to. Further thought brought out the theory that resisting flex, like sub frame connectors or stitch welded rally roll cage bodies do, will lead to material fatigue at some point. Letting a frame flex and absorb the energy and isolating the body seems like the...

I was thinking of fabing up a new frame from scratch. Modifying an existing truck frame seems like more work and would never look as clean as a purpose built frame. Correct me if i"m wrong, but minor trimming on the rear structural members on the existing uni-body in order to tuck a new frame u...

Thanks
I started a new topic "full Frame for SAS" under 4x4
Have not figured out the font colors yet

Well it has survived the transfer Me and Gary both posted while Justice was trying to find the correct file to edit to put up the rediect message on the old forum.She grabed them for me ;Thanks Justice Here are my original post and Garys reply Has anybody contemplated modifying an Astro to full fram...

Must have posted at the exact wrong time
My new topic "full frame for SAS " under 4x4 on old site did not transfer
Is there any way to retrieve that string?
Otherwise nice and fast and lots of gadgets.