looks great man
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That's an awful pretty looking frame. I don't think mine looked that good when it left the factory. Nice work.
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May not be bent, sometimes with not all the weight on the front end things do not line up. My frontend looked funny until I finally added all the weight to compress the springs down. Do not torque the arm bolts untill you get all the weight on the frame.
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Thanks Shaun and Hank.
Ray, I thought the same thing when I first started trying to get it lined up but the bushings that bolt to the frame won't line up at all. If I put the rear bolt in the front is "toed out" so far I can pull em around to get the other bolt in. After I thought bout it for a few minutes I remembered the other frame had been hit in the front in on the drivers side. So I figured it was bent. Only way to be able to tell if it was would be to measure a good one from end link to end link and compare wouldn't it? |
I haven't tightened anything yet. All the control arm bolts are still loose.
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If the other frame had got hit then you may be correct about it being bent. Wish I had a stock on to measure for you. Hard to measure on the car.
Found my old stock one, I get around 46 1/4 center of hole to center of hole off my 70. |
Well thanks for looking at that. I'll check it out when I get home from work and see what it measures at.
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Quad, try this.
http://www.chevellestuff.com/tech/68...dimensions.jpg |
Thanks Ken, I measured my frame it's pretty much in line with all those dimensions. I'll need to keep those dimensions handy to see how bad off my other frame is once I get the body swapped over.
Ray, I measured my sway bar and it was exactly what you measured, so I don't know whats going on with it. I got the exhaust all mocked and fitted now I'm just waiting on the correct rear control arm braces to show up before I weld everything in place. I ended up using the rotella oil and primed everything and it had just under 60 psi. Hopefully by the end of next weekend I can get this thing fired up then I can get the body swapped over and get back to work on finishing the quarters and drivers side rocker. Here's a pic of the exhaust. So far those ball and socket flanges are sweet! They seem to fit tight and would compensate if there was a little misalignment. http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps8scegwpk.jpg http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...psclnljizz.jpg http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q...pseezri7xq.jpg |
Nice. I cutoff the flat mounting flanges on my longtubes also.
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