Found a crack in my K-frame today

[bull]

Just a heads up for you guys to keep an eye on your frames for damage. I pulled mine off yesterday and cleaned it off today and found a good-sized crack in the drivers side front. I had plans to trade it in on a rebuilt frame from Firm Feel anyway so I won't have to deal with it but thought it was worth mentioning here.

[CB]

Bull, you pulled the K-frame with the strut rods still on?

[Hemidoug]

Stop jumpin' over those hills!

[bull]

Bull, you pulled the K-frame with the strut rods still on?

Yes. I put the car up on jack stands, released the tension on the LCAs, pulled the brakes/rotors off and detached the UCAs from the spindles, pulled the torsion bars, hooked the K-frame up to the cherry picker, removed the four big mounting bolts and lowered it to the floor. Why? Did I do something wrong?

[maxwellwedge]

Nope - No problem with that.

[375instroke]

Cracks can happen anywhere.  I parted out a Dart, and found an upper control arm mount was cracked at the weld.

[Jon Smith]

It was that jump you did in your avatar

[jeryst]

Wheelies can do that too, y'know - lol.

[bull]

Wheelies can do that too, y'know - lol.

Not the wheelie itself, only the landing. Seriously though, this car underwent plenty of abuse before I got it. But I abused my old 70 enough to make up for it.

[Mike DC]

I keep telling ya Bull, you shouldn't do this stuff to your cars.  Chrysler's a bitch about paying out warranty claims already.

[Chatt69chgr]

The pictures on the firm feel web site show how they reinforce and reweld a 68-69 K-frame:

http://www.firmfeel.com/reinfkfram_b.htm

This info might be of value to you.