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Old Jan 21, 2009 | 10:53 PM
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Thanks! I'll definatly think about those, but I've never been a huge fan of wheel spacers... I've heard too many horror stories about them causing bad vibrations and damaging wheel bearings.
 
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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 04:32 PM
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Can't the shop fix the frame for you? Doing a frame swap is going to be intense.
 
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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 04:50 PM
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Well like I said before, I did do a rough pull on the frame on a frame machine and it's fairly straight. The problem was the frame machine got to torquing the truck down so hard that I was afraid of putting another bend in the frame elsewhere. Here's a picture of it, the red circle is where the frame is bent (it's slightly rolled in). You just about need to measure it to tell its bent, but also like I said before, the tire is just barely rubbing.
 

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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 05:24 PM
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Oh, alright. Well, good luck with the frame swap. Its going to be alot of work man.
 
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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 09:55 PM
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thats the bad thing about dodge frames, they are really hard to pull back out after they are bent. i have seen a few get screwed up worse by thing to pull that extra little bit, so i know what you mean.
 
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Old Jan 22, 2009 | 10:26 PM
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Yeah, but the one good thing about the front suspension on these trucks is that they have so much adjustment for realigning the tires that its not a big problem. Thats the reason I didn't notice it when I first bought the truck, whatever butcher shop fixed the damage didn't pull the frame out, they just adjusted the upper control arm in to compensate for the lower being rolled in. lol, you should have seen the angle the wheel was at back when I pulled the frame.
 
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