Driver side watts bracket tacked on.
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It’s slowly starting to take shape. You can see in this photo the back brace is tacked to the rear housing. Down the road you’ll see I had to modify it to clear the coil overs.
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From this angle you can see there’s about ½” of space between the back of the rear end housing and the watts a-frame.
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I made these gussets to help reinforce the joint between the rear frame rails and crossmember.
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At this point just about everything is welded in permanently except for the housing brackets.
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I added this rear crossmember which I cut from the original frame rails that Ron sent me.
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With all that done, it was time to connect the original frame horns to the new rails. They didn’t turn out quite as pretty as I imagined them, but they’re pretty sturdy and put both bumpers where they should be.
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I tried to make both sides as similar as possible.
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The bumper fits nice and doesn’t bounce around!
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