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. I was one step from grabbing the porta band and turning that axle into garage art.
I could build a box mounted, flat against the front bed wall tank from scratch. But that's going to be a bit of a process, and I am unsure I want to give up the space on a short box. I also prefer to not have the weight that high in the chassis.
So, Bobby...being the calculating trained warrior NCO that you are. Take the appropriate action, Execute!
your standard grunt level CQB is just putting rounds and rounds on scary stuff till it stops scaring you!
Phil... Your RC is a interesting study as I know you don't abuse it but you have used it. And I am very interested to see what happens as you continue to use it. Any idea out of curiosity what your RC weighs Phil? .
I just don't want to wind up missing a digit or limb. I can sometimes get in a hurry to get results.
I think you have one of everything "someplace" ???
Norm, I find your curiosity thought provoking. I confess I don't ponder it as you do, to me, OK holes are in there as stress relief...Done, next subject, pass me a ham and cheese sandwich!I recall that very odd pyramid stackup of holes in the rear "Hump" area of the frame. 8 holes each side. You may recall I just said, what the heck, and used all 8 of them for my upper air bag mount. No real reason I could see for them either, and if bothered me that they punched all those holes in what seemed to be a weak and stressed area. I felt I was doing good by essentially bolting in a "Truss" of sorts to giddy that area up some.Anyway, you ponder these frames too much more and we're never going to see that truck, become a truck!
Phil I think you make some good points. That said take a look at the frame under your truck you will see many oval oblong shaped holes. These are your tooling holes you mention. They were used by Dodge for ages, back into the 60's or earlier possibly. My 68 GTX has the same tooling holes in the unibody. The round drilled holes are a mystery really. They are different diameters and patterns on my frame than say a standard cab frame. And again Different than the RC frame as well. Locations, the amount of holes.... it's interesting anyway. I wonder if Dodge didn't just stress test the frames in some type of jig and "tune" as required. When they got it as good as it could get they went into production. No ones knows any more, most likely.