repairing a cracked frame

[nvtoy]

Bought an 85 reg cab w/o an engine in it. Made the misatke of picking it up at night. When looked at closely, discovered the frame was cracked, with 1/4" plates scabbed on each side. What to do now? Anyone have experiance with this kind of mess, and any remedies they have used?  Thanks for any input.

[tgmaul88]

bummer

[jrock]

Pictures help. Probably cut off the repair if it looks bad enough. Diagnose what's wrong and repair it correctly.

[bleakhorizon]

location of crack?

anything is repairable

[Nimyad]

Definitely need pictures. But probably cut off out the crapp repair, lay a piece of plate into the frame and weld that in, them put a nice fish plate over that.

[bleakhorizon]

general rule is to diamond the plate, no horizontal or vertical welds on the frame would be preferred

[junya92toy]

Drill holes at the ends of the cracks, grind it out and weld it. Also if you put a piece of steel into the frame, you need to do a backing strip, a beveled edges and a root opening

[Slolyfe]

http://board.marlincrawler.com/index.php?topic=84439.msg969059#msg969059

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