My 40 Dodge Truck Build - Maybe a 41 LOL

[MercuryMac]

I'm also voting with Bama on this one. Blue on blue.

[Couper]

Thanks Gene & Mac. I have a friend with photo shop but I have to check to see if I have a good picture for him to mess with. Keep you Guys posted.

[Couper]

I believe I asked before but I'm second guessing myself and thought I'd ask again. I fabbed up these headlight / shock mounts that will bolt just behind the frame horns but in front of the grill shell when mounted. The shock mount is tight to the mounting plate / frame.....no real leverage although the headlight section comes up and goes forward. The headlight mounting bar is 1.250 sold round stock. There's a mounting pad that has 3 - 3/8 mounting holes.

My concern is going thru the frame tubing 2"x4" 3/16 wall and crushing it some, maybe making for a crush / loosening attachment after driving some, also ripping a patch out.

On the inside I want to lose the nuts on the inside frame rail because it will interfere with the grill shell. Thinking button head allen on the inside and some acorn or nylon insert nuts on the outside.

Do you think the frame wall will be ok as is? Maybe set up a anti crush tube?

Whatda you guys think?

[zzrodder]

Since the frame isn't painted, I'd weld threaded bungs in the frame, no thru bolts to squish the frame. What I really want to know is how you bent those skookum chunks of solid bar
The positioning of the lights look spot on...

[Couper]

So the bungs would be on the outside of the frame rail? Or would they go thru and weld on both sides like a threaded tube? I'm gona search bungs.

I bent them utilizing my welding table and a block of Aluminum with the radius I was after. I drilled out one of the clamp holes in the table out to 1.25 and anchored the end in the hole. Started with 4' pieces of stock for leverage. Used the angle finder to match the angles..... It was fairly easy.

Thanks for the comment on the headlight position!

See pics

[MercuryMac]

Yep, the lights have to go there.

[Old Iron]

[bob w]

Heck of a shop you got there. Do you have a magnetic drill motor? High quality work you are doing.

[Couper]

Thanks Bob... I don't own one but we have one at my job that I can borrow. Enlarging the 5/8 table hole to 1 1/4 I did with my hand drill, the welding table top was drilled at the shop on a CNC Mill. My shop is not that big... 25 x 25 with low ceilings but I make the best of it.

[zzrodder]

Just put them on the outside, they will surely be capable of holding the weight of the lights