It took me a bit of puzzling to figure out what I wanted to do with the front end. The more I looked at it the more work I saw. The frame was tweaked, the passenger side of the bumper was about 3/4 of an inch lower than the driver. the bumper had been tied into the shock towers, but one side was just hard welded and the other side had a tube flange, Wierd!? and there were a ton of tube joints that were only half welded, with open backsides. it looked like way more repair work than I wanted to do.

So I cut it all off.



Then I made some new rails from box tubing, 2x3 3/16 wall and I plated the outside.



Made some fish plates to strengthen the tie in point. But didn't have the right size stock on hand to plate the open ends, ill hafta get to that. Placed my new frame side panhard mount, and steering box.



And set about figuring out how much possible up travel I will be able to use. Unfortunately the steering hits everything first. The tie rod hits the passenger frame rail before the panhard does. It might not be a problem because I may have to place my bump-stops a little lower to keep the panhard out of the oil pan, etc. I wont know for sure until I hang the drivetrain and cycle everything. But for now it all looks really promising. I'm Thinking my 14 inch shocks will be about perfect for the amount of travel I'm seeing.