[BrentBTK]

So, I was jacking up the front of the truck and it slipped off the jack and the crossmember below the front of the engine caught the full weigh and bent up into the balancer. I was able to get a big pipe wrench on it and bend it clear of the motor so it will run and took it for a test drive. It still seems to track straight, but I'm concerned what I may have done to the front end geometry. Specifically, when the crossmember bent and twisted up, did it pull the frame ends closer together? If anyone has an inside measurement for a point on frame rails in front of that crossmember, I would really appreciate it. The next question is, should I try to find a new one, and if I do, do I just knock out the rivets and bolt the new one in place? All this because I tried to put a sway bar on the font that didn't fit my new control arms anyway. Gotta love it! Attached pics are of it bent up into the balancer before I managed to bend it clear.