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Just found out my beater's frame has 3 different thicknesses of metal from the factory
I was poking around under my '91 Ford Ranger last weekend trying to figure out where the rust holes were coming from, and I measured the frame rail in a few spots. Front section near the bumper was like 3/16 inch thick, but back by the leaf spring mounts it was barely 1/8 inch. Looked it up on a Ranger forum and turns out Ford used different gauge steel on different parts of the same frame to save weight. Anyone else run into weird factory shortcuts like that on their project?
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