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For 1990-2009 cars only
Makes 🢒 Isuzu 🢒 1999 🢒 S/T Isuzu - 4WD 🢒 Body and Accessories 🢒 Frame and Underbody 🢒 Frame Conditions - Sidesway

Problem

Action

The vehicle is involved in a collision.

Straighten and reinforce the frame. Refer to Frame Straightening Description .

The vehicle is involved in a fire.

The vehicle uses equipment such as snow plows for which the frame was neither designed nor properly reinforced.

There are abrupt changes in section modules.

There is improper body or accessory mounting:

    • Holes are drilled in the flange of the frame rail.
    • The holes in the web section are too close to each other.
    • Four or more rails are in the same vertical line of the rail web.
    • There are welds on the flange, particularly across the flange or along its edge.
    • Cutting holes in the rail with a torch.
    • There are cutting notches anywhere on the rails.