CumminsPusher
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Do you have any pics of the a post?**Update again***
I took my rig up to Neosho Mo to a builder/ fabricator called TQR. Very nice people to talk to. After they looked at my frame damaged, they said it would be easier for me to buy a new frame then it would to try to bend back my A post. Once I get the new frame, they would gusset up all the weak points for me if I wanted. Which if I go that route Im probably going to do. They also recommended me if I didnt want to do that to find a collision shop that would be willing to use a frame straightener to fix it. Once again more money that I really dont have to fix this project. So my question for you guys is should I just buy a new frame, get it gusseted where it needs to be, and know everything should like up properly or find a collision shop and hopefully they can bend it back to the proper angle and try to gusset it where it was bent. I have the part number for a new frame (50100-hl6-a002a) and going to see if the Honda dealer close to me can be cheaper then the few sites I looked at. If I do go with the new frame, then Ill have to figure out how to transfer everything over from the old frame to the new. Feels like its going to be a pain in the a$$. Any help, comments, or suggestions are welcomed. Thanks again for every one following me with my project.
a shop can pull things around, in fact I’ve got to do a little of that on mine, but one thing to really watch for is once a tube is bent even a little it looses a ton of strength. You can usually find where it’s bent by broken paint.
Now if it’s just tweaked slightly it’s not to big of a deal, that’ll pull around fine and shops can do that but it can be a bit tricky to do it right on a tube chassis because there’s no designated tie down spots like a car.
But areas that were pulled it may be good idea to gusset, that in itself someone needs to be careful because these use a thin high strength steel, if get it too hot it looses strength