Mart's A Project: 
"Old Rusty" 
Part 3: Fixing the chassis.
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In reality, there isn't much to a stock 32 frame. Left frame rail was repaired, much of the right rail was replaced with an excellent section made by Jerry Denning. New front crossmember was made by me. New rear frame kickup sections were made, and the 34 rear crossmember trimmed and fitted.
The frame in this state, with no k-member legs fitted is extremely flexible. My '34 coupe, in the background, now lives in Japan.
One rusty k-member leg.
One repaired k-member leg.
One rather more rusty k-member leg.
One rather more substantially repaired k-member leg. I also ectended it forward to double up the area where the steering box attaches to the frame.
The rusty parts of the k-member were cut out and replaced.
At some point, you have to bite the bullet, strip everything down to the last nut and bolt and get it down to the blasters. Money well spent.
K-member now repaired, and my upper x-brace in position. This top bar on it's own does very little to stiffen the frame.
But the addition of the lower frame stiffens it enormously. (frame is upside down in this pic.)
Axles refitted, rolled outside into the sun. only a few details to sort out now..
Like finishing the ends of the kickup properly. Thickness of top part doubled up as it is the rear body attachment point.
Front crossmember bolted in using these round headed bolts, which look a bit like rivets. Reversed eye spring is a mixture of 32 lower leaf, de-arched and re-arched the opposite way in a home made press tool, and the rest of the leaves are from a F100 pickup front leaf, with a little more arch added in the same press tool.
About 4 spray cands was all it took to get the frame how I wanted it to look.
Thar she blows, ready for the body to be refitted for the final push!
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