Watch your frames!!

[ahale2772]

Just as an FYI... for people who live in any area's with lots of rust...

on the rear "axle hump" of the frame there is a bumpstop, with a steel plate and (I think) one 1/2inch bolt that holds it on.

Ive seen 3 different trucks where they hold moisture and rot, when they do they will bore a hole right throught the frame...so take a look at your truck!

I didnt get a picture of the crack on my frame... but the hole had spread to a crack about 1 inch long going vertically up the frame...

mine is the 3rd truck I have fixed now, one was a very nice "rust free" 93, and it was a big gaping rust hole under the bumpstop

i put a piece of angle iron in, welded it up, called it good. i know its not good to weld perpendicular o the length of the frame...but it had to be done

[CumminsPower59]

Awww Sh!t!!!! Both of my bumpstops have about 1/2" of scale built up where they bolt to the frame ...guess I gots another project for the weekend

[ahale2772]

yuppp, kind of an important area of frame too...

[CumminsPower59]

You ain't kiddin! I didn't think much of it besides the rot on the top of the bumpstops, now I am gonna have to take a super close look at it once I burn the stops off with the torch when I get home. My poor truck went from a southern, rust free area to salt laden Wisconsin, and was never washed before I took her home

[ahale2772]

yeah i hear that, that 93 I mentioned has a super clean frame (for a NE truck). Still has a clean, rust free skid pan under the transfercase.

but there was a hole right through the frame on one side, the other side wasnt through yet but still paper thin.

[slow_90firebird]

mine rotted in the same spot. I just cut the bottom of the c-chanel out about 4" wide and up to the inside edge, then folded it back a little and cut along the crease. Patched in a new piece of steel and welded down where the crease used to be, and 2 welds across.