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Old 01-19-2022, 03:44 PM   #1
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Default Front crossmember for a 56

Fellow at work needs one...anybody selling them or have a good one from a donor car they want to lose?
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Old 01-19-2022, 04:16 PM   #2
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One on fleabay looks to be in decent shape but not cheap.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/22451199969....c100290.m3507
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Old 01-19-2022, 05:28 PM   #3
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Default Re: Front crossmember for a 56

Ad says doesn't fit the 55 and 56 Ford just 54 Ford and 55/56 Mercury. I wouldn't have guest that. Anyone know the difference?
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Old 01-19-2022, 05:51 PM   #4
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One on fleabay looks to be in decent shape but not cheap.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/22451199969....c100290.m3507
That X-MEMBER is for a 54 FORD only.
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Old 01-19-2022, 08:37 PM   #5
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Default Re: Front crossmember for a 56

Try Tee-Bird Products in PA. They had some in stock, don't know if they still have any.



If your a member of the HAMB, some one on the 1952-1959 social group may have some plans for one.
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Old 01-19-2022, 10:52 PM   #6
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Isn't there a sticky here with the drawings for the front crossmember so someone can fabricate it?
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1956 Ford Front Cross Member.
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Old 01-20-2022, 11:19 AM   #8
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Default Re: Front crossmember for a 56

Here’s a post by JeffB2 over on the HAMB. Note the last comment questions the measurements. Also IIRC the Hot Rod Reverend might have had something on one of his rebuild blogs. HHR is on the yblocksforever site, I don’t recall if he’s here, amd Jeff is here, but I think he moderates the social group on the HAMB. If no one give a good answer it might be worth tracking them down.

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/...ember.1156821/
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Old 01-20-2022, 03:36 PM   #9
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Default Re: Front crossmember for a 56

unless you have a show car a good welder can fix them to last as long as the owner.my son has done 4 for me now.
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Old 01-20-2022, 07:26 PM   #10
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It looks like Tee-Bird products bought up all the Goodell cross members when they closed up, lately if you look them up on their site you will probably get the familiar " Out of Stock" notice as is common in today's world. I posted today on my HAMB 1952-59 Ford group to see if anyone was going to make them, as some have discussed doing it. A couple years ago there was a post in a Ford Group that a guy was doing them on demand his phone number was 1-(919) 471-8942 If you call them let me know if he still is and roughly the cost.
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Old 01-22-2022, 02:44 AM   #11
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Wow on that eBay price! Whenever I get to my ‘56 Meteor I thought I’d just scrap the extra frame... not gonna do that now!
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Old 01-22-2022, 10:28 AM   #12
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Default Re: Front crossmember for a 56

I had a buddy of mine weld mine up several years ago - I too thought I was going to have to replace what I had. Since he welds for a living I had him take a look see and he encouraged me to cut out the rot, give him templates to weld in patches, and he would come help me out. He cut out the patches from left overs at work, I cleaned up the cross member like he said, and then in just about 30 minutes he had it all welded up.

I wrote a blog post about it on my website and also included a brief video. You can see all of that here: https://www.hotrodreverend.com/post/...on-blog-part-4

If you go back one post earlier to part 3 you can see the assessment and all and how bad it was when we started.
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