Chevy S10 Custom Rear Frame Rails

so here's the continuing uh framework and the front is set the rear needs to be clearanced so that the axle uh has upward travel and the existing frame with the ride height I've got Set uh gives it about two inches of upward travel not enough so I'm going to be altering that I was originally thinking of putting uh some kind of cut in uh a this thing here is what I meant but I decided against it uh not frame but kind of an a-shaped box thing I've seen done on other trucks that are getting slammed and it seems like it would be straightforward enough just to use a plate put it in make it perfect then cut out the old frame and looking closer I realized that the rear end of the frame is going to require a fair amount of work those cross members that are sitting there just aren't going to cut it for what I need and so and the rear rails were too tall off the ground so it was gonna that was gonna get changed anyway so now the plan is to just hack off uh the frame uh and then integrate a new 4x2 rectangle tube uh box frame into the back end that gives me all the clearance I want up and over the axle and then drop the rear rails down lower so that they make a little more sense for what I'm doing and so where I started with that was making a template of the existing frame which is that kind of lined out angled piece there and then drawing kind of what was ID um tweaking it around and I had my I'm using a ride Tech four link in the in the rear so I pulled those brackets out and kind of thought about what would work and what wouldn't and so that integrated pretty well and gave me all the Heights and distances I need I don't think that needs to be quite as tall but it's going to make doing uh shock mounting that much easier and it means absolutely nothing to me inside the car so it was fine going up that high and plus I felt like well I'd rather give myself a couple extra inches in there than wish I had done something different later so that's how that worked out the rear end is the cardboard wasn't as long as maybe perfect but that tail section goes another nine inches or so but the the detail is there so we're going to start hacking and cutting and fabricating that thing and see how it goes thanks okay let's go John I got uh both sets uh cut uh this one's ground laid out perfect and I am going to spot our tack weld it so this is after a long day of welding and grinding and welding and grinding and grinding and welding and clamping and propping things up everything went fine it was work but hey it's all part of it so here's the next morning came in cleaned up drank a ton of coffee drank some more coffee drank some more coffee and realized that I should put some braces in there to make sure everything stays parallel especially as I get serious about attaching it to the existing frame I've got it kind of held in there for now um with a bunch of good solid strong welds but I fully intend to box that section in there and plug weld the holes and then put a plate on the back side and so getting it all parallel and placed exactly the way I want it while I'm doing all that work made a ton of sense so with all those braces uh in I was able to get the uh the 4x2 new frame completely welded into the existing frame and let it cool and then I took all the braces out because the next portion is going to be working on making patterns and getting in there to figure out what I'm going to do for boxing the uh the opening on the c channel so I want to just be able to walk through there and start to fabricate that okay so moving on to the next part which is actually starting to put brackets on everything and the plates are welded in and the side of the frame had about a bazillion uh holes in it from all of the rivets for the original cross member so I plug weld all those and I actually ended up putting little pieces of scrap steel on the back side uh to just make it easier to plug I was playing around with holding some some heavy copper up against it and didn't really make seem to make much a difference so I just threw some steel in there I left some holes or not holes but I left some openings from the original design and I've got a wax a rocker Wax Kit coming because while I was able to spray the inside of it with a fair amount of weldable primer where I needed it I also feel like okay why not let's just shove some in there and see if that makes any difference long term I don't suspect this thing's going to get a ton of water but you know you never know well that wraps up the framework for this part of the project the cross mounts will obviously have to go in and they are going to be integrated with the next video with the suspension getting laid out so hang tight like follow subscribe turn on notifications all that stuff appreciate the support and thanks for watching

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Length: 5min 22sec (322 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 11 2023