Well, 4 years later... Caddy motor is in the truck and I need to fabricate this crossmember. Space is really tight in my truck. The caddy motor has an oil filter that sits near the spring shackle and my frame mounted brake booster also seems to sit right in the wrong spot. I have the crossmember below (I didn't use it for mounting the engine) so I was hoping to modify it for this purpose. My current thought was just to box the frame with a 3/16" plate. I was going to box about a 6" section behind the spring brackets then I would mount the crossmember below to the boxed section. Does that sound strong enough? Do you think I need to include some type of reinforcement from the crossmember tube to the mounting plates? They just weld onto those 1/4" plates. Then the plates would bolt to the boxed section of my frame. I can add some pictures if none of this is making sense.
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