Took the truck to shop #2 yesterday. He looked at it, said it'd be a half a day on the rack, but he didn't want to take it on until his schedule cleared up. Well then why TF did you let me come all the way down here? He sent me to a shop just up the road who should be able to get me in and out in a week or 2. Until I got there that is, because their frame guy is on vacation.
I get that people need to go on vacation and all, but I'm on my 3rd shop and don't even have so much as a damn estimate! Oh yeah, this is why I fix my own shjt. So today I looked at how I could hook up a chain to the rail. First I needed to weld that pesky crack.
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If you pull out on it, it'll only spread out more.
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I went a little too fast up top, but the rest looks pretty good. Since this is right where the chain was going, I needed to leave the wheel off while I was yanking which complicated things. I left a jack under the rail and it followed the truck with every yank. I even tied the part I didn't want to move to the Envoy but I ended up dragging them both with the 1500 in 4lo. I really need a bigass tree to tie it to and give it some lovin. If I get this halfway straight it'll be about a 90% solution until somebody decides they're willing to pull a frame for me. Look here at how the body mount and lift are canted over, this bit is pushed in some as well. I'd tied the Envoy behind here.
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