Cross member replacement?

Disclaimer: Links on this page pointing to Amazon, eBay and other sites may include affiliate code. If you click them and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission.

mrgrim333

SHO Member
Joined
Nov 1, 2007
Messages
103
Reaction score
10
Location
Colorado - Northern
About a year ago I tagged a median... My cross member has been bent for a while, so the engine sits a little high now.

The main thing is, it's causing uneven wear on my tires.

My question is, how hard would it be to find a replacement, and replace it?
 

Phoenix

SHOHOLIC
Joined
Mar 2, 2007
Messages
3,767
Reaction score
1,646
Location
QC , Canada
Junk yards or in the want-to-buy WTB section of this forum. Specify if its a MTX or ATX , and the proper term of the 'crossmember' is 'subframe'
 

Storm-Chaser

New Member
Joined
Jan 26, 2005
Messages
2,786
Reaction score
258
Location
Shit Louis
Have you had it aligned since the "mishap" ?

The post-alignment numbers (Camber/Caster/Toe) will give you an idea/starting point as to what is causing the wear problem . . . .


:burnout:
 

groove83

PimpTempoOwner
Joined
Dec 15, 2004
Messages
331
Reaction score
19
Location
Kalamazoo, MI
Have you had it aligned since the "mishap" ?

The post-alignment numbers (Camber/Caster/Toe) will give you an idea/starting point as to what is causing the wear problem . . . .


:burnout:


About a year ago I tagged a median...

I think thats the best explanation of what is causing the wear...HA...:naughty: I crack myself up.....

but being serious....If he did hit the curb off enough to cause teh motor to sit higher in the engine bay....it bet he is having all 3 problems...

but I can offer some advice how the best way to fix it..that is after you find a MTX subframe (has to be from a 5 speed taurus though.)


Any way, the best way I can describe to fix it is to find a really big piece of metal (some thing that stretches from one strut tower to the other, I was using a piece of 4x4 tubing along with 2 piece's of 4x4 lumber so I wouldn't mess the body up, Snap on also sells something like this that is made to do exactly what I am describing...but I am to cheap to buy it.)

with doing it the way above....if you get the chain that wraps around the bar/tube/whatever to be pretty tight to begin with, when you go to drop the sub frame, the engine won't move out from the engine bay far.. and with that, you won't have to unhook nearly anything to do this...

but if you do it the above way (if you can understand my terrible use of the english language and the way I describe things) you will just have to unhook the motor/tranny mounts, Cruise system, PS cooler, rack and pinion, and the control arms from the knuckles and the subframe will brasically drop out of the car.. and I usually wait on unhooking the sway bar untill I lower that subframe, that way I can unhook it directly from the subframe and don't have to worry about even touching the front sway bar links that NEVER come off in one piece.

hopefully my terrible description help you.
 

SHO Continental

Moderator
Joined
Nov 28, 2004
Messages
2,111
Reaction score
501
Location
Northridge, Cali
I had a similar situation a while back. Slightly overshot a driveway on some sandy street in hick town and half the subframe took on a curb. It was in the middle of a road trip/vacation so after everything checked out fine, no leaks, tire still good, etc I continued on my merry way.

Later on it seemed everything was pretty misaligned. In addition the trans was hitting the subframe in the front.

Ended up replacing the frame, which wasn't a bad idea anyways, slight rust on the original. Notice the front drivers side of the subframe..

Dsc13914
Dsc13931
 

Forum statistics

Threads
107,077
Messages
1,181,197
Members
16,142
Latest member
Kaevorlly

Members online

Back
Top