need to get my frame pulled. Raleigh area

rusty cj5

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Alright, so I picked up a 05 chevy silverado 4x4 that has been ditched pretty hard. The plan was to get the frame pulled and then do a sas with leaf springs, paint it and sell it to my cousin. Well now I've had it to two different frame shops and neither one has worked out. first was going to be kind of a buddy deal but he got busy and it didn't seem like he was ever going to get around to getting it done. So we took it out to another guy that we know that runs a body shop at a dealership, but when he saw the truck he said it was worse than he thought and he wasn't interested in messing with it.

SO anyone know any good shops with a frame machine that would be willing to straighten this frame out? one that is somewhat offroad savvy would be great, i'm tired of people looking at me like i have two heads when I say I am going to cut the ifs out and put a straight axle in.
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This is the truck, the right front tire is back and the the bumper is up and over to the left.
 
Well, since this thread is already going in the wrong direction...
I know a good frame puller, but she doesn't work often, doesn't work cheap, and doesn't work for anyone except me.
 
Ehhh....just tube the front! Cut the frame off at the fire wall and go crazy!
 
Yeah, I have thought about that, if I was going to keep it, I would be very temped. But I don't really have the time and he doesn't really have the budget to pay me if I did.
 
Try a local community college with an auto shop. May get it done cheap that way.
 
Call some salvage yards and price a frame section, from firewall out. I'm gonna say its a $250-$450 frame section, depending on how they feel that day. Frame machine is probably gonna cost $600-1000 by the time they take the front end off and do all the pulling. Shop charged us $400 at work just to pull a suburban apart and check the frame.
 
fordwheelinman said:
Call some salvage yards and price a frame section, from firewall out. I'm gonna say its a $250-$450 frame section, depending on how they feel that day. Frame machine is probably gonna cost $600-1000 by the time they take the front end off and do all the pulling. Shop charged us $400 at work just to pull a suburban apart and check the frame.
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That has been on the table from the beginning, probably would be the best way to go unless I could find a whole frame to swap out. But I am just trying to avoid all of the time and labor. The way my frame is bent I think I would have to splice behind the front cab mounts and I feel like it would end up being way too involved when you get into probably having to pull the engine trans tcase and then the cab.
 
Having the frame section would allow you to manipulate it however you wanted to trim bracketry and measure and weld for the leaf perches/sliders. Set the axle up completely and put the engine/trans/t-case on your new section. Cut the frame and pull it out, then just roll your new front assembly underneath. In theory it sounds like a wonderful way to work it, especially if you have limited shop space such as I have. Could even use the front end and first cab bolt to help line up the frame for welding.
 
If it were mine, and I was going to SAS it... I would pull the front clip off, pull the engine (at least), and cut all the ifs brackets off. What's left should be easy enough to square up yourself.
 
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