Stretching frames on Trucks? What is the purpose?

Wow! This unfortunate encounter with a felonious goon Amazon driver now also makes you an experienced Amazon execrator.

I came up on the rear end of one of those Amazon clowns one night traveling south on highway 99 parked on the shoulder. Said clown was parked with the end of his trailer well over the fog line and in the lane of travel.

Called CHP for that one.

 

You joke, in missouri hit and run with over 10k damage is a felony. In a construction zone was kinda the iceing on the crap sandwhich there. As towards cussing out amazon....nahh dont need to. They are taking the legendary swifty swift crown of stupid all on their own. Funnier to watch them gain the rep "naturally".

The MX13 however is in a ballpark all its own. Amazon cost me money once. This paccrap less so if im honest the guts of the machine are good. If i could get an MX13 sans all the emissions, davie4 BS and sans the idiot who owned mine before me. Id likely consider it quite strongly. Motor itself is well made. Its all the garbage attached to it that makes me loath the engine.

 

An angle cut or z is stronger no debate to that. It is however very hard to fit where it doesn’t pull the frame top to bottom or vise versa. You want to have to fill absolutely no gap. Both are also overkill.

A square straight line butt joint is more than sufficient and will square not only vertically but also easier to keep the frame square in an X so to speak. Also you want one pass up the front one up the rear grind them smooth then tiger paw them so they are undetectable. Put your cut right in center of a cross member so you have bolts on each side of it. Another reason for a butt joint cut.

 

@JoeyJunk is pretty shy and alittle naive .. I think your probably right ..I'am gona hook him.up with a good looking pantieless skank and let her spin him around the dance floor

 

Not sure what this truck used to do, or is destined for, but I guarantee it turns like a locomotive.

 

No 5th wheel on it. Its likely a platform for a box van, a ditch witch, garbage truck or a custom critical truck....maybe a dump truck or any one of a thousand other configurations that is being delivered someplace to be finished. You see those running around occasionally on their way for fitting out.

 

Could be getting one heck of a custom sleeper on it.

 

Here one I stretched last winter for a guy ..it ended up being 284" wb

 

The headache rack throws a bit of a twist into the mix though.

 

It’s a 2006, but it only has 509,000 mi on it. That headache rack and the strobes made me curious too