Finally notched my frame

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Doug118

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It’s been a huge struggle to find someone to notch my frame locally but it finally happened. There was a lot more involved than just cutting for the notch. The brackets on the rear end that hit the factory bump stops had to be cut off the rear end, the frame had to be cut for the panhard bar, frame notched, and the exhaust is not hitting the axle so that’ll have to be addressed

I can’t even begin to explain the ride quality difference now. Huge shoutout to @992dr for sending me some insanely beefy notches

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Man, that looks good. Long and looooooow, love it.
I bet there's a huge difference in ride quality now that you have more travel.

Glad they worked out for yah man and they look great. You need to get it up on a lift and get some shots of everything that had to be adjusted.

Will you be able to keep your exhaust over the axle out the back?


Congrats man
 
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Man, that looks good. Long and looooooow, love it.
I bet there's a huge difference in ride quality now that you have more travel.

Glad they worked out for yah man and they look great. You need to get it up on a lift and get some shots of everything that had to be adjusted.

Will you be able to keep your exhaust over the axle out the back?


Congrats man

I’ll try to get some better shots tomorrow. As far as the exhaust goes, I’m not sure what to do with it. I really don’t want to cut it because my kid sits on That side of the truck and I don’t need any exhaust blowing into his window or creeping up from underneath
 

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Yes, please add to our collective knowledge base by posting photos, showing the details of what you had to modify to achieve this great looking end result.
 
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first photo is what actually hits the frame when you get to this point. I believe it’s for the bumpstops. Once those are cut off the axle housing, then you can see where the notch actually needs to go

second picture shows where the panhard bar mount on the rear end hits the frame. The frame needs quite a bit of clearance for this also

last picture is just showing how my exhaust hits and actually rubbed a hole through my brake line


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