Hey guys welcome back to the shop in this video. I'm going to finish the front cross member and get the frame welded into one piece. Alright, so I've spent the past two hours or so aligning this frame here and I'm going to explain you right now how I did that. What you need first is two reference points on the front and the rear cross members. So back here I have these two holes right here and right there. Those are two factory holes on this cross member. I know those are going to be accurate to each other. Then when I made this base for the front cross member up here after I drilled this center hole I made these two reference marks with a center punch on either side, one's under here. So I know that those two points are accurate to each other. Then you need to make sure that the front and the rear are aligned with each other so you won't be going down the road sideways. So what I made to hold the wire up here is just a wood block here with a screw in it and that screw sticks out a little bit on the bottom which holds this wire here. And this wire back here is connected to this thing here, this like scriber whatever. It really doesn't matter as long as it has a nice point on there that you can use for reference here. Then you pull the wire tight and you can see here that that comes right to the edge of that hole right there. And when I check it on what you do is you measure it from the front left to the back right and then the front right to the back left in an X formation. And you want those to be the same measurements. And then what I also did just after that to make sure was I measured them parallel as well. So left to the left and then right to right. And I've spent about two hours doing this and I got it to within, definitely within a 16th of an inch. And that's pretty good. You definitely want to be within an eighth of an inch is what I've, what I've read online. But a 16th should be, should be good. So what I'm going to do as well up here is you have to set the cast or angle of this front cross member which how much you want to lean back like this. And from what I've read online is you want it to be about seven degrees. And I just have this this level measure here on my phone. And you can see right now it's, it's a lot more than that. It's almost 12 degrees. But that's fine because all I'm going to do up here is I'm going to put a tack weld right there and then right there. And then I can hinge this down very carefully in the front to get it exactly where I want it. So what I'm going to do is put a couple tack welds on the front here, put a couple little tack on the back measure it again to make sure it's still aligned because when you put it well on that like that once the metal cools it'll pull the metal in and it could throw it out of wax. So you want to be very careful when you're doing this because this sets the base of everything you do from this point on. If the frames off everything else you're going to do is going to be off. So these are like the most important measurements when you're building a frame like this. So all right so now I have both cross members welded into place. Have the front cross made up here. I think that turned out really nice. I'm loving the look of that. How kind of wide ends at the back there. I think it gives it a nice look and still how it's still kind of flat on the front. And you can see how the front spring just kind of clamped in there to give you an idea of how that's going to look. And all I have to do now for these really is I'll flip the frame upside down and weld the bottom sides of all of this and then after I do that the basic frame will be done. So the next thing I'm going to do is probably work on the front end here. I need to make some some brackets to mount the spring right there. So that'll be probably the next thing I do. And then figure out the situation with the axle. I'm thinking about not actually using that I be maxil that I have way over there. I might have something else lined up so we'll see what works out with that. So yeah that's all I have for you for this video. Thanks for watching and I'll see you next time. you