Frame Splicing

Hi folks, question for folks who have worked on or done a bunch of welding on a CJ2A frame. Would you consider a frame splice on a frame. The back end of mine on both sides at the forward leaf spring pivot eye mounts is sho. t I found another frame that could be a good donor.
Basically I would be splicing somewhere just in front of the tramsmission cross member to fix all of the issues. My front is solid.
My wuestion is: Would you recommend this or not? If yes, any thoughts on the proper way to do this, fish plates, reinforcing the splice etc. Should I look for another good frame of spring for a repro frame and avoid rust issues altogether?
Your learned advice is appreciated.

I've never done it before but I would suggest staggering the cut portions if possible. Additionally I would have a professional welder or a very experienced one do the welding.
Both of my front forks need to be replaced, while I can weld a bit my Dad will be doing the frame welding because he is a retired Boilermaker/pipefitter that spent his career welding for Chevron. He said he'd do it for me but said he would only do it with a stick welding machine since my flux core MIG isn't going to make a quality weld for a frame.

Definitely reinforce the welded sections.

I used to work at a truck dealership where we would lengthen/shorten big trucks regularly. I also shortened up a Ford 4x4 PU by sectioning 16" or so out of the frame and welded it back together. A few times it should've broken, but never did.

These are pic's of my crossmember repair I made using a tig welder, (oxy-acet. could give similar results). The crossmember and the frame your talking about are the same thickness, 12ga (.109) I know this is a patch but if I were to splice two together it would be the same. Cut the frame square, zig zag not necessary. It must be a "full fusion" weld no unfused edges, low or undercut areas on both sides a slightly higher weld(reinforcement) is best. The pics shows both sides of the weld as it should look to be stronger than the metal itself. The weld bead would look the same if it was a splice. If the metal is thinned because of rust I might consider a diamond shaped patch. That's how I plan on fixing the 47 1/2 frame showing. Hoped this helped Joe wadoyado

Appreciate your photos and comments Joe. How would you deal with the reinforcing strip in the top and bottom of the frame? I see you have some rust forcing the strip off the c-channel frame. Would you weld both the inner c-channel and the strip?
That strip is only spot welded on so will likely have even a small gap.
Thanks!