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Originally Posted by Billybob
You should put the word out that your looking for a subframe, maybe someone down south can help you out with a nice clean and rust free one from a car that's headed to the bone yard. Or after some nice guy reconnoiters a decent one in a bone yard get the address, take a weekend and do a road trip down the Carolinas or Georgia hit the bone yard and strip every thing off one and bring it home. grab a couple wheel carriers and you can do the rear wheel bearings also, everything at your leisure!
You've got the place now you can give it the once over, press in all new bushings, bolt on all new control arms, new subframe and diff mounts, then when the time comes drop yours swap the differential onto it and your wheel carriers and then your axles and you'll tight right and out of sight!
The car will ride like it did 23 years ago!
Seriously it is much much easier to do the complete job with the subframe off the car, as long as you have a decent floor jack lifting it back up and into place is really not that big a deal. This job is much more difficult with it still under the car, it’s very hard to get at everything, with it on the ground you can get to almost everything from above it easily.
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I actually have a second subframe in my parents' shed, but it's got a bit of corrosion on it too, so I hesitate to use that one. It's pretty solid other than surface, I could sandblast and repaint but maybe I should look for a perfect one. Can one assume a subframe that hasn't been in an accident, if it doesn't have rust issues, is as good as another?
I still think that's one heavy frame for me to lift (or drop), even with a jack ... unless I take the wheel carriers off first, which I guess is an option.
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