Suspension out of speck ?

Yup, someone hit a curb at speed, the welds on the ends are not factory (next to bolt)

On the upper pic, above the channel, is that little streak a welded crack in the frame? Left side above rail in pic, about 3 cm from the end.

I fear you are going to have to get it squared, its tweaked for sure. Is it powdercoated? The only way I got that 63 frame straight again was with hydraulic rams and a torch.
 
Twin_Turbo said:
Yup, someone hit a curb at speed, the welds on the ends are not factory (next to bolt)

On the upper pic, above the channel, is that little streak a welded crack in the frame? Left side above rail in pic, about 3 cm from the end.

I fear you are going to have to get it squared, its tweaked for sure. Is it powdercoated? The only way I got that 63 frame straight again was with hydraulic rams and a torch.
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The weld besides the bolt is the one the used to keep that square piece of metal in there.

I took a look at that streak, it seems like they hit the frame there with the welding rod, like the ones i found al over the frame. There is no indication of a crack as a far as i can see.

The frame is powder coated so heating it is out of the question imo.

It's rather difficult to acess any damage in that area, since the hole behind the tower came up ok after i measured it from the laser plane above the frame in the past.

I know it had a the fender and the rear quarter replace on the left, so could be the suspension was also hit, but the problematic bracket is the right one.... The left front horn of the frame was ok, the right one was a little low.

TT, you have any more dimensions on the frame towers than the ones in the manual. I could try to get it squared but i would need to be able to exactly measure things.
Would you cut of the bracket ?
 
Ok, what i just did was jack the frame up, with a carpenters level across the frame in the nr 3 and 4 bodymount location and put that section level left to right. Then i put a laser pointing over the front section where the towers are.

There is no engine in and left suspension is dismantled, only the right suspension minus wheel is on there, so there should not be much frame flex imo.

Guess what ? When measuring down from the laser line towards the front and rear bolts of the upper A-arms and the front and rear suspension mounts of the lower A-arm, the only ones that are not equal left to right are the rear lower A-arm mount locations (10mm lower in the right).

The tower bracket itself is at equal height also.

There is some variance in the frame rails themselves, but all the important locations seem to be right at equal height.

When i cross measured the frame from one of the holes in the side of the frame rails towards the bolts of the uppers A-arms, all dimensions where exactly the same, spot on... I think it is fair to say that the spring towers at least are square in relation to the rest of the frame.

Hmm, i would think that the frame is not the problem, but there is actually something wrong with the jigging of the rear right bracket as you suggested earlier.

This puts me in a difficult situation, since the upper part of that bracket can't go lower and the lower part will come loose of the frame when i put it in the right position.

Guess I will somehow have to shim the crosshaft 10 mm lower in that location. Don't know how this will hold up in operation either.
 
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Wife is back out of hospital for a week now, so i saw my chance on doing some of the work.

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Both of the lower brackets were bent as can be seen.
 
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