Preliminary Pictures

Big Texas style rear bumper - you could land this thing on an aircraft carrier.


Unusual plates welded along the front passenger side frame rail


Rear hanger of front passenger side spring


Front hanger of rear passenger side spring. Wierd stuff going on here.


Rear shackle of passenger side rear spring. Can't buy this on from Quadratec!


Probably the biggest area of concern is here - the rear spring hanger of the drivers side rear spring. The frame is actually bent downward aft of this point. The hanger is bolted to a poorly welded plate in a way that when the spring is under compression, the home-built shackle actually contacts one of the bolts attaching the hanger to the plate. This really needs to be fixed.


Another angle of that same drivers side rear hanger. The plate wasn't even welded to the frame level. See how crooked the spring and shackle are.


Same story on the drivers side rear spring. This is the front hanger of that spring.


Rear hanger of front drivers side spring


This shot shows some ugly work with the torch where they burned through the frame some. May be the remnants of some kind of winch plate or some other kind of bumper reinforcement.


This last one just shows the shackle reversal setup in the front