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Re: Swapping frame in 37 Panel Wagon
[Re: Carsavior]
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08/10/08 09:04 PM
08/10/08 09:04 PM
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Posts: 7,992 Escondido, CA. Ron Podsiadly,...
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have you got any pics of the 2 frames? you say 37 panal wagon and is it a 37 humpback? got any pics of it???? I would set the body on the frame and then make the body mounts from the frame to the body so that it sets good and if I had to I would raise the rear hangers up on the frame to get the truck lower and then redo the floor area in the rear. I hope that makes sence Ron...
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Re: Swapping frame in 37 Panel Wagon
[Re: Mopar Ron]
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08/10/08 09:48 PM
08/10/08 09:48 PM
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If I remember, the Dakota drops at the firewall and kicks back up behind the cab where the box would sit. If you trim off the "ears" for the Dakota front box mounts, and remove the gas tank cross member, you will only be left with the high part above the rear axle. If you don't need the amount of rear suspension travel the Dakota has it shouldn't be a huge deal to modify the rear of the Dakota frame. Even if you "filled" the dip on the Dakota frame to make it flat, you should lower the panel by several inches, right? The panel's rear floor is wood anyway, guess it depends on what you want your rear floor to look like and what your planning on doing with the back of the panel.
Somewhere between these two extremes there should be a happy comprimise. With anything I've ever seen, the lower you want to go, the more modifications need to take place. How low do you want to go? Pictures would help a bunch. My old mind gets a bit foggy. Gene
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Re: Swapping frame in 37 Panel Wagon
[Re: 49wayfarer]
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08/19/08 12:37 AM
08/19/08 12:37 AM
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Well that wasn't hard to post a picture! Heres one of the dakota slid together into the 49 dodge and welded, had to use a come along to get it the last couple inches it was such a tight fit, then welded it up. It was my first time doing a subframe, thought it went pretty easy.
Last edited by 49wayfarer; 08/19/08 12:44 AM.
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