Introduction to Crossmember Modification

nice helmet yeah safety birth today part five of the 4080 conversion i think it's five i know i say i think it's something every time i can't remember pretty sure it's number five though and today is a really really common question along with you know other parts of the conversion this one is probably one of the bigger deals to sort out that's a cross member nobody knows what to do about the cross member they think got to buy one they don't know how to modify theirs to work because it's got to be changed it requires some fabrication and not everybody has the ability to do that um so i am going to outline for you guys the simplest way i believe to get a cross member under there that works we're just going to modify the stock one in the most simple basic do it yourself with a freaking flux core mig welder kind of way anybody with access to a welder and a vehicle that can take themselves to home depot or lowe's should be able to do this i gotta find the cross member first though i don't know where it went uh mike the electrician was here earlier hooking up some plugs for the lift we got four plugs over here four plugs over there four right there and four right there so now there's no more shortage of places to plug things in and i have found the crossmember this rusty crusty pile of stuff is going to get cut into three pieces the process is very very simple here uh first we are just gonna hold it up