close to a whole frame.......

Well, Brian and I worked on the Diamond T project most of the weekend.......

After digging out geometry from the recesses of my brain, we got angles determined and got the Dodge front clip removed from the rest of the frame:

Then, we moved the rear portion of the Dodge frame out and moved the stripped Diamond T frame into the work space.
After we removed the old rear axle........  Brian cut the 'drop' portion of the frame from the box van's frame.......  and then we did some more math, and he cut the front clip off the Diamond T frame.......

 My ''studly'' benches worked well for holding up the frame square (so the frame wasn't 'racked' at all while he cut).  Too bad they are too tall to hold it up to attach this portion to the Dodge front clip......

Luckily, this is where we realized we made a small error in the figuring of the cutting of the length of the 'drop' part of the frame.... we measured the length we needed on the 70* mark instead of the 90* that the drop pieces were to be cut.......  so, we re-figured out math and Brian re-cut the drops longer.  He wanted the part where the cab rests to be 1'' lower than the original Dodge frame was.  And, now it will be (and will be straight back until the rear axle, not like the Dodge frame that the only flat spot was where the cab sat, which wasn't a big enough spot for the DT cab).

This is where we got flustered and tired and gave up for the weekend......  We need a better solution to be able to hold that frame to the right height and still be able to micro-tweak it's position side-to-side and front-to-back so we get it as close to perfectly square and straight as possible.  We might have to build some cribbing or something, not sure yet.  The wheels were definitely not doing the trick, LOL.