The frame was in bad shape. It has usual rust to the floor rails and the battery carriers but I also had a crushed and torn cross tube. The tear was at the bends of the tube making it even more of a challenge to repair. I finally got some tubing from a place in town but the wall thickness was about 2.5 X that of the stock tube., I bent it up anyway to see if I could and it fit pretty good. But the kinks in the tube at the bend looked bad. The thing was so thick I knew that there was no problem with the strength but it looked bad. I took the damaged section I cut out and took to a muffler shop in town and had them bend me up patch section. Well it fit pretty well and the wall thickness is almost exact. It's not stock but it looks ok and gets the job done.