lwb to swb frame chop many pics

[Ram-Man]

I did decide to cut down my lwb to a swb. I just think the shorts are more of a cruising hot rod than a long. Just my opinion. I followed the tech article from Early Classic. Here are some pics of what I did and maybe this can help out someone else out. I am not done I still am going to get the frame inserts from early classic for support where the welds are. I spent alot of time planning it out and after it was cut in two I spent about 2 hours measuring and realigning everything. First thing I did was built supports around the areas to be cut so once I cut it I could slide it back together. It worked really well but it does take some time to line and square everything up. When they say measure twice I think I measured about 50 times before I started any welding. Very time consuming but I am withing 1/32" of an inch from when I started. When I welded I did about an inch at a time and alternated back and forth between the 2 sides to reduce the risk of warping. All in all I am very pleased with the results so far.