{"id":353,"date":"2012-02-11T20:23:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T02:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/?p=353"},"modified":"2018-07-06T20:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-07T01:25:03","slug":"back-to-the-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/back-to-the-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Back&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m committed now. Tacked in the &#8216;gas tank hammock&#8217; to keep the frame rails straight, and fired up the plasma cutter, and took out the tail light panel, rear cross-member, and lower rear portions of the quarter panels.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend1.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend1.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend1.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rear cross member all welded in. Nice and tight fit, thanks to the Redneck Gas Tank Hammock&#8217;s last gasp of holding the frame rails together.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend2.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend2.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend2.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the new trunk pan dropped in for test-fitting. Fits like a glove, except that the sheet metal comes up about 6&#8243; short in the front. Turns out the pan from CJ Pony Parts is about 6&#8243; &#8216;shorter&#8217; than the one from Ohio Mustang Supply &#8211; WTF?! My Bad. Now I gotta fit a new piece of sheet metal in there, bash it into shape, and weld it in before zapping this one down.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend3.jpg?resize=780%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend3.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend3.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/rearend3.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m committed now. Tacked in the &#8216;gas tank hammock&#8217; to keep the frame rails straight, and fired up the plasma cutter, and took out the tail light panel, rear cross-member, and lower rear portions of the quarter panels. Rear cross member all welded in. Nice and tight fit, thanks to the Redneck Gas Tank Hammock&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather","category-mach1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister4x4.net\/mister4x4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}