Beau, have you ever seen them preheat the skeleton of a high rise building when they weld it? Or the frame of a Bulldozer or other piece of heavy equipment, I bet you haven't because it is not necessary. Now on cast iron or cast steel that is an other story
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Art When I did weiding and bending on Stuff like PM arms in the old days. We would heat it after weiding or before bending to a low red and then stick it in a big bucket of sand to cool. Then again you know that.IN A LAND OF FREEDOM WE ARE HELD HOSTAGE BY THE TYRANNY OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!
Better To Burn Out Than To Rust Out!
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Originally posted by aw12345 View PostBeau, have you ever seen them preheat the skeleton of a high rise building when they weld it? Or the frame of a Bulldozer or other piece of heavy equipment, I bet you haven't because it is not necessary. Now on cast iron or cast steel that is an other storyLast edited by Jeeperator; 08-26-11, 04:38 PM.
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Got a working pitman arm made , that's good, the draglink and track bar line up pretty darn close to perfect, happy about that. The tierod needs to come down about 1/2" to 3/4", kinda bad, but still close to 2" higher then before I took the front end apart. The happy, it'll work, getting some steel tomorrow and have a long weekend coming up so hope to get close to being finished with it.
A 6-7" front end stretch with less than 5" lift and 14" coilovers with 6" uptravel makes, packaging the whole shebang a pretty hard chore
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I sure opened a Pandora's box with this one, however a couple of tubes of KY jelly later I am getting close to slamming the lid back on that darn box
Need to make a top plate for the passenger steering arm and then on to making a assist ram mount and skid plate.
Mounting the ram and routing the hoses is going to be fun also
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To darn hot to do much of anything today, still kinda positioned the steering ram where it roughly needs to go. Looks like rotating it and pointing the fittings to the back will be my best bet. Going to make a skid/ integrated mount for the ram. Ordered some new electrodes for the plasma cutter so this weekend might turn into a cut fest lol. Snapon sure is proud of their stuff though.
This needs a bit of cleaning up with the grinder, but I am pretty darn happy with the fit and where it resides
Last edited by aw12345; 09-09-11, 05:11 PM.
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My blingy mall krawler wheels lol, those things look tiny. On the bright side looks like my steering project will be done tomorrow. Got to weld the tabs for the center strap in and finish up the the hole in the frame for the draglink.
Then mess with the hoses for the steering ram and bleed it and take my baby for a spin.
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