Frame for Rat Rod

wgamble · Dec 2, 2015

Any of you guys ever build a jeep rat rod? I want to be able to get all of my parts from a junkyard or strip a down another vehicle. Looking for a frame wide enough and long enough to do the following.

Wanting to put a old Jeep DJ or CJ body on a frame that is long enough that I can add a small bed to it. Was thinking of putting a Crown Vic front on it and explorer rear axle under it so I would have the rack n pinion steering, disc brakes all the way around and same bolt pattern.

If I could find a 4bt with a turbo 350 behind it. That's about as far as I have thought about it.

Suggestions?

CHASMAN9 · Dec 2, 2015

http://www.hardlinecrawlers.com/forums/index.php?topic=41002.msg500695#msg500695

Had this one.

wgamble · Dec 2, 2015

Yeah, I am looking to do one that is family friendly so I can take my 4 year old along with me and the wife. I can still put the soft top and doors on it and drive it during the winter if need be.

clemsonjeep · Dec 2, 2015

somebodys been watching vegas rat rods!

wgamble · Dec 2, 2015

something like this

Rockwells607 · Dec 2, 2015

I've been scheming a rat rod with a frame of my own, doing the double tube trade outta .125 wall 1.75 tube lattered like I do buggy chassis then put a cool body on it, my plan is to powder coat the chassis and paint drivetrain but leave a ratty body on it

Elliott · Dec 2, 2015

It will flex quite a bit without some upright bracing done like that, I built a tube frame for a show truck c10 and was suprised how much it would bow with all the weight on it. But if it was short wheel base enough it might be a lot better ???

mna0121 · Dec 2, 2015

I went to the Daytona Turkey Rod Run last week. After the event at the speedway hot rods cruise A1A all night long and gather at the Plaza mall to BS. There were several rat rods there with Cummins in them when they rolled in two or three hundred people swarmed around them. Some looked like they just rolled out of Welderup and all were bagged. There was a Sami there with a Cummins, looked like they sectioned it down the middle and widened it. That would be a cool ideal with a bagged 4x4 rolling coal. Quite an engineering feat to pull it off too. RTR

Most all of them appeared to have had 18 wheeler frames, rears and wheels?

sillycj7 · Dec 2, 2015

If you're ever in the Huntsville / Athens area, swing by and talk to Greg at G&S Custom Fabrication.
He's been doing custom hotrod and ratrods for some time and turns out some amazing work. Tons of insight on chassis and suspensions.
Awesome dude :****:
G & S Custom Fabrication
16466 Albert Rd, Athens, AL 35611
1 (256) 232-9512