2007 volvo vnl frame rail repair help?

This is exactly why its important to keep your iron clean. That crap they put on roads eats frames.

 

If you can't afford the cutoff, there's no good option then IMO.

That is too far gone to repair, for me anyway

 

You can glove it still, and it will work, but i wouldn't want to run it through an inspection.

 

Cutoffs ain't too expensive. I paid $1250 CAD for a single 20k lb axle on Airliner.

Heck give a few wreckers a shout, they might be able to take the rails from a cutoff they have laying around and just graft a pair of better rails in there.

 

KW quoted me $18k CAD for a pair of undrilled rails for a project. I had a local metal fab shop with a large break bend me up a pair that were long enough to run from the back of the cab (where I had good frame) to the back. I drilled everything myself. Total cost for the rails plus the sleeves was under $2k CAD if I remember it right. I prepped everything and a welder came out to glue it all together. Only took him an afternoon.

 

Really not.

 

They usually sleeve bolt an inner channel at the splice itself, since mostly what you need is some twist resistance (depending on engine power) and then everything is mostly just in compression/tension, that is pretty easy to acheive, easiest (best?) spot is behind the sleeper where there isnt usually much but steps or apu anyway.