I’ll try to elaborate as best I can. You take something you know is dead straight and that will reach across the truck from frame rail to frame rail and hold it up to the front side and the back side of the xmember and You trace a line on both sides of the xmember. That line represents the ground or anything even with the bottom of the rails. Then you cut just above that line so the bottom sliver of the xmember falls off. You then weld on a 3/16” plate all the way across to strengthen the xmember back up. It’s that easy. I’ll post a pic for a better visual.
Replacing a tubular cross section member with a flat plate - It's not a solution I'd use.
Well, he's proven his fabrication abilities here.... Not sure what you are other than the peanut gallery.
I wasn't questioning the fabrication abilities - just stating an opinion that I'd not use that solution.
All it’s holding is the weight of the carrier bearing and some of the driveshaft. It was over engineered from the factory. And I stated above, that you should plate it with a minimum, 3/16” plate, that’ll be plenty strong to reinforce it.
It’s a valid concern, but it’s not needed. Before companies were making raised carrier bearing xmembers, this is what guys were doing and it worked just fine, if you plate the bottom with the appropriate thickness metal.
