Stretching frames on Trucks? What is the purpose?

YEAH!!!Lets see ya do that with a stretch frame.....

 

If trucks were ladies, which one you wanna spin around the dance floor?

 

forgot to add some old age bashing in with your weight and east coast hate.

are you one of those effeminate, shaved body, body builder types??

 

95% of vintage iron out there is spliced. Most started out as 215” wb’s and got stretched as length laws allowed. Others got spliced because they were spring ride and were converted to air. Might as will add some inches while your at it.

 

I get bent out of shape when I see stretched out trailers. They just take too long to pass in my governed plastic aero mega fuel island jammer!

 

Last time I saw it was in center point. Pretty sure it lives in Iowa now. Can't hate on project 350.

 

Not all are on new rails. I’ve went from 255 to 315 on several for other folks. There is a science to it. It can be over complicated or over simplified both having negative effects.

For those afraid of the splice or the weld spend some honest time in open minded research. Properly done a welded frame rail is every bit as sturdy as one piece. We are not talking about sewing a rail up with a 110 volt harbor freight machine and flux core wire with unprepared joints. Low hydrogen in the hands of a skilled welder that can weld anything from the crack of dawn to a broken heart, egg shells to spider webs you won’t ever know A single frame rail can and will flex and twist.

Can also crack over time. Frames break in high load areas from fatigue and corrosion. They bend in a wreck. Finding a frame that just gives up without a cause such as Blount force trauma or corrosion combined with modifications made by hacks is where you’re gonna see frame damage.

 

"wore out, post: 12508680- did you cut the frames you stretched straight from top to bottom, or did you cut them on a 45* angle?

 

Very well put, and I couldn't agree more.

 

Not @wore out, but i like the cuts angled down from the front back. Degrees depends. I like to center the cut in the middle of a crossmember. So draw a line, about 1" from the back of the top crossmember bolt in front, to 1" in front of the bottom bolt in the rear of the crossmember.

I like to cut angles opposing the frame cuts on the glove.