My 87 white mits build

[19BaggedMitsu92]

yo DeWire, we need to get some of the pics from this past weekend posted up to, just a reminder

[Johnboy72]

^^Agreed.

[FordTruckMan]

Damn dude, your truck is coming along, Hope you dont mind me takin notes because there is not really a lot of info out there about baggin these trucks. I'm plannin on gettin mine to lay out on 20's but I will only be runnin 18's. So needless to say, I'm payin attention to your threads, any info is greatly appreciated.

[Johnboy72]

And that's what it's all about! Learning from each other. Now if we can get the wanker back in the garage with camera.

[laidoutmits]

All right back on this thread. Next in making every thing clear under the frame I went to the frame cross member under the drive-shaft. I started by taking a strate edge and goung frame rail to frame rail and marked front and back of this cross member then cut it off.

[laidoutmits]

Once I cut off what was neccesary I looked at what I had to see what I could use to weld back for structure and support. This is what I came up with.




and that was the shaving and reinforcing of that crossmeber. next I welded in the bottom plate (When I made the first frame to frame mark I added the thickness 3/16 to that mark and then cut so when I welded in the plate here it would still be level with the frame)

[laidoutmits]

[laidoutmits]

So next I went to the ever cumbersom tranny crossmeber. I started by marking the initial bolt holes and mocking to that.

[laidoutmits]

With the original having bolts goin up to the factory nuts and that wasn't goin to work for this, so I went with bolts welded in and cut the factory nuts off.

[laidoutmits]

then I fabed up some new flush frame height mounts. started with a couple strips of 2" x3/16 and welded 3 strips together to get the plate I needed( to make both sides at once).