OK, after a long side-quest (this cnc retrofit took too much of my precious weekends ) I'll be getting back to the locost .
So in an attempt to take out any and all twists and bends, I started yesterday with a bit of angle grinder yoga .
Soon things looked like this :
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The fixturing table did a great job at positioniing everything .
But one of the rear tubes had been welded in a highly preloaded position and the top rails of the rear end were pointing a bit to the left, so half of today was spent on fixing that and carefully tack welding everything .
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In the end I got this . It sits pretty well on the bench . Overall, quite happy with that .
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Next thing on the list is welding that on the frame and reworking some of the side rails to take out that nasty bend .
And the transmission tunnel . To keep everything in one plane I got a laser level . and got the whole frame leveled out .
Cheers