Am I screwed?

I dont see any cracks? Can you get a better pic? Also something must be going on to make it crack or rip, frames dont just do that out of the blue. before you make a brace like that I would take the mount thats on there and gusset at a 45 degree angle down and out for more strength. but that should be ok. like I said something major is going on here that you need to figure out first frames dont just crack :read:


I went and was looking again and see you wrote this is how it is before the cracks... well post the pics of the crack. as many as you can inside frame outside frame under above from a far close up in a tree I wanna see tons of pics

Ok I'll see what I can do.

This is a off subject but did you make that drawing?? if so what did you use.

quakin26 said:

This is a off subject but did you make that drawing?? if so what did you use.

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Yes i did using solidworks 2007

Yea bother are a good idea. Also could put a crossmember between the rails so they support each other. Mounts like that get a lot frame twist.

I'm going to look into seperating the tanks some more and doing a 2x2 cross member right between them.

before you weld up the crack you should drill a hole at the end of the crack. It helps stop the crack from continuing. then weld it all up. another thing is if you weld your bag mounts to a bigger and thicker plate and then weld that to the frame it will help distribute the pressure

layinrocker65 said:

before you weld up the crack you should drill a hole at the end of the crack. It helps stop the crack from continuing. then weld it all up. another thing is if you weld your bag mounts to a bigger and thicker plate and then weld that to the frame it will help distribute the pressure

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Thanks for the info. Sshould i weld in the hole i drilled or just leave it open?

Also welcome to the site bro!

weld up the hole after

OK cool. Thanks guys. Probably going to be another week before i can tear into again. Let me ask this. If i do a piece of 2x4 for a crossmember between those 2 brackets, do you still think i should do something similar to my cad drawing for a brace?

It wouldnt hurt, its up to you man. Its better to over build a little an not have it break.

True true, Maybe it comes back to the fat ass comment in another thread that made it break.

Bagged04 said:

True true, Maybe it comes back to the fat ass comment in another thread that made it break.

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Well Justin, I finally am able to look at the pics at work again!

mine did that once..

i put them back right, and put flate plate behind where the bag mounts weld to the frame.

it's a C
what it's doing is pulling the middle of the C out and making the frame get smaller on the inside....

but i like the custom work above it looks good.