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3-23-10: Well my plan to go with an explorer chassis isn't working out. I just don't have the spare cash to buy another donor vehicle.
So I'm going to just have to work with what I've got. I'm going to just use the 84 F250 4x4 chassis and shorten it.
I was going to cut 45" out of the chassis and weld it back together. But I've only got a 110V wire feed welder. And I just don't trust the welder or me to get the job done safely. Now I could pay someone else to do the welding or rent a larger welder. But that means spending money that I don't have. So I decided the best solution would be just do the work and move the axle forward and cut off the extra frame. To do this will me removing 62 rivots and around 20 bolts. So it will take some work to get done.
Today I started out by pulling the chassis off the trailer I had it on. Then I did some measuring to lay out were I'd be moving the axle to.
The picture below shows were I'm moving it to and were I'll be cutting the frame off. The red arrows are where the front spring mount will go. The blue arrows are where the the rear spring/shackle mounts will go. And the green arrow is where the frame will be cut off.
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