Frame rail repair

Everett, the frame connectors are a mod that you can feel the first time you drive the car after installed. not a performance mod but a handling mod...

 

I find it amazing, that the sway bar can put that much pressure on the frame rail...just imagine what the thicker ones will do, if some of us ever get them.....

 

I guess the more the roll the more the pressure...

 

OK! Maybe I shud consider going that route. I saw ur can on the lift after u had put them on the car. I pretty much consider a handling mod a performance mod. U have the rear sway setup too?

 

Those frame rails are pretty thin and not intended to support the forces of the sway bar. That is why that area has to be modified to accept the added stess.

 

no rear but bigger one on front and it did away with any roll I had. I also have...coil over shocks...on the front.

 

One of my projects on the maverick this winter is installing a rear sway bar, thanks to this post i have a better idea on how to do it.
I also want to make install sub frame connectors but i have no idea what they look like, I'm pretty good at metal fabrication. Can you post some picks of yours, i can see a little of one end but not enough to get an idea.

 

Everett; I have the Addco 7/8" on the front and the Addco 3/4" on the rear. The car handles much better with the sway bars, but they put a lot of stress on the rear frame rails. If you use them, be sure to strengthen the area around and across the frame rails so it can handle the stress. The subframe connectors were made by Dan Starnes many years ago, and were an instant success with the handling. Car settles down and doesn't twist.

 

sub frame connectors are a simple concept that has endless ways of being done.
im sure you understand its linking the rear sub frame to the front sub frame.
my theory is to try to tie as much of the car car together as possible. most subframe connectors will just tie the end of the rear sub frame to the rear most section of the front sub frame.
i run my subframe connectors from where the leaf spring bolts into the rear sub frame all the way up to the front torque box. the front frame rails are located further towards the center of the body than the rear. so the subframe connectors dont cross over them so i will put stringers across to the back and middle of the sub frame connectors to tie them in to the front sub frame at multiple points.
if you can cut square tubing and weld it back together you can make and install your own sub frame connectors. the floor pan shape prevents using just straight tubing so you have to cut the tubing to follow the floor shape or cut a channel in the floor to clear the tubing.

 

here are mine. they were made from...roll bar tubing. my guy at the muffler shop made and installed them for...$75... he bent them to run with the floorpan...

 

Earl.. I doubt you have two rear ones lol

 

thats sweet looking

 

No Gene, don`t have a spare. If I run up on one I`ll let you know.

 

Whatever do you mean? (Just caught this.....thanks to you and Frank!).

 

Don't understand the message here! U tie the sub-connectors like an X or + to each other? If that's the case, how do u get around the drv shaft? Got any pix of the concept?