{"id":266,"date":"2010-02-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-01-13T22:36:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:36:13","slug":"f100chassiscore-support-crossmember-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Core Support Crossmember Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the first piece of the new crossmember took me ages to cut out with a grinder, I decided to splash out on a double mitre saw to do the rest. After measuring for the drop on the other side, I set the saw and cut up a block of wood as a test. It was pretty much spot on, so I cut up a piece of box section. I still had to cut the notch out with the grinder, but it was still a million times easier. I measured down to my scrap guide, cut out the drop pieces and tacked them in. I cut it back off, moved it around a bit, trimmed it a bit and eventually got it to sit pretty much where I wanted it (the ends of the frame are different lengths it turned out).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"325\" width=\"443\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/10\/02\/CoreSupportCrossMemberV1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With it all tacked in, I cut off the scrap guide. With another piece of 2&#215;4 tacked in between the two, I had a crossmember again. Next up was the frame for the radiator itself which the slam panel sits on. I&nbsp;took the angles off the inside of the wings (they have panels that bolt across) and set the angle on the saw to match. A crossbar and a few tacks and it was a complete piece. The X5 radiator had mounting tabs on the top edge, so I ended up making a crossbar for them, which I&#8217;ll eventually use to mount the fans from too. I cut the slam panel in a few places to make it easier to work out where it all had to sit so I&#8217;ll have to repair that too. Nothing too major tho.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"330\" width=\"443\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/Truck\/10\/02\/Upside-Down-Rad-Bastard.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first piece of the new crossmember took me ages to cut out with a grinder, I decided to splash out on a double mitre saw to do the rest. After measuring for the drop on the other side, I set the saw and cut up a block of wood as a test. It was pretty much spot on, so I cut up a piece of box section. I still had to cut the notch out with the grinder, but it was still a million times easier. I measured down to my scrap guide, cut out the drop pieces and tacked them in. I cut it back off, moved it around a bit, trimmed it a bit and eventually got it to sit pretty much where I wanted it (the ends of the frame are different lengths it turned out).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"325\" width=\"443\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/10\/02\/CoreSupportCrossMemberV1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With it all tacked in, I cut off the scrap guide. With another piece of 2&#215;4 tacked in between the two, I had a crossmember again. Next up was the frame for the radiator itself which the slam panel sits on. I&nbsp;took the angles off the inside of the wings (they have panels that bolt across) and set the angle on the saw to match. A crossbar and a few tacks and it was a complete piece. The X5 radiator had mounting tabs on the top edge, so I ended up making a crossbar for them, which I&#8217;ll eventually use to mount the fans from too. I cut the slam panel in a few places to make it easier to work out where it all had to sit so I&#8217;ll have to repair that too. Nothing too major tho.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"330\" width=\"443\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/Truck\/10\/02\/Upside-Down-Rad-Bastard.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chassis-f-100","category-f-100"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}