Originally Posted by mrvette

My '72 was an old show car, and so I found the P/O must have redone all the welds on much of the frame...not a wreck involved, just nice clean seams....some years ago I removed the Muncie 4 spd and went to auto trans for the overdrive....Florida at 80+ needs an O/D.......so to remove the welded in cross member, I cut the thing with body on frame, about 3-5 inches from the frame rails, got welded on a couple of L angle iron, to fit over the stubs left on the chassis, drilled a 1/2 inch bolt hole going fore/aft to hold it in place, and added another L in lower back of cross support, just for extra help on the stubs.....

being lazy and only dropping the pipes once to get that cross support out, I cut the lower loops out and built up a structure across the top loop to keep it rigid....... dropping the pipes is easy pie now, and the cross member is even easier, 4 bolts and it's outta there, trans is mine.....

Originally Posted by 69ttop502

Here is a couple more pics of the crossmember mod and gussets.

Originally Posted by jrs 427

My hat is off to the exhaust person. Fantastic work.