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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Brownsville, TN
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Slightly bent frame...big problem?
I have a 72 Jimmy. We were out in it riding when the front left tire fell into a pretty large hole. After extracting the truck we noticed that the front axle was off center. Apparently the left front tire got caught in the hole pretty good and shoved the rear springs back into a piece bolted to the frame behind the shackle. This caused the lower portion of the frame to become kinked. I carried to to a frame shop and they more or less straightened it, but it is not perfect. During the accident nothing else was harmed on the truck, front axle, body, or suspension-wise. I was actually very suprised to find the frame got bent in this slight of a crash.
My question is this: Should I worry about the frame still having a kink in it? Will this cause me problems down the road? Should a frame shop be able to fix it perfectly? I am about to start sinking a bunch of money into this truck but want to get this sorted out first.
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