Well, daughter was sick yesterday. So gave me a chance to do some work.
Took it to bumper to bumper. Guy there cut the pipe, and welded to an angle that worked. Nice guy, didn't even charge me.
Continued to work on the brackets. Longest and hardest thing to do, was drill the holes by hand in the metal plates
No drill press. That's some strong ass metal.
Then realized after making a second set of holes, so adjustmentshe could be made, just wasn't enough room. Needed to cut a chunk out for some clearance on the bottom of the shock, due to the pitch. Shock was bigger then thought, needed about another inch of bracket. Ohe well. Can and it later.
The lower part of shock will be just a little forward of center of axle. The top point will be a little above the horizontal cross tube pipe. So will need to reinforce that. All in all, think going to turn out good.
The shocks will be setting more vertical then before. Plus the bottoms are very close to center of axle.
Just need extra support for top brackets. Then make sure I get everything good and even, before I start tacking it together.
Then I'll remove hitch, and get it down lower.
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