I had decided that I should leave the bodywork alone for a while till it’s all back together and can be worked on properly, so it was time to look at the frame. I hated the way the front clip stuck out of the frame rails and wanted to blend it in properly. Before I went too far I double checked that it was straight as the piece I chopped off the front was so bad but luckily it was correct. I welded a piece of box section to the crossmember to hold it up on it’s side, and supported the other end with wood and set to work.

I marked up where I wanted the bend to start, then marked up the pie cuts and sliced them out with a thin blade. I put G clamps on the end, then heated the lined I’d marked with the acetalene torch until it glowed then tightened up the clamps until it was bent into position. Once it was cooled down I pulled off the clamps and tacked it in, then cut up one of the pie shaped pieces to fit in the gap between the rails. With it all finish welded and ground down it looked a million times better, and hopefully a bit stronger too.