Official Tennessee Thread

you want to help?

 

Oh. Well I apologize sir. Get super swamper boggers, I like your thinking a cutting up the truck and Adam will hate school just as much as you.

Well ....... Fuck yeah

 

cool. I have a feeling that Kari will kill me though

 

Nobody get any ideas about Gid's bumper... It's mine

 

Why? Cause your doing something to your truck that makes you happy? Maybe you should kill her before you start. Problem solved

Death threat has been established and documented. You should be good now. Haha

 

No death threats... No threats at all... Just so everyone knows...

 

I know I'm going to hate it. But I hate paying someone to build shit for me more. I'd rather deal with some small bullshit while expanding my knowledge base and opening the door to a more potential and lucrative field of employment than do the same repetitious bullshit each day just to pay someone a ridiculous amount of money for a piece of metal.

My example here would be my relentless fab light mounts for my 50". Relentless is a good company and I have absolutely no issues with them. However paying 120+ for two piece of metal bent and drilled a certain way with a weld in the corner is ridiculous.

 

No. I've mentioned the idea before and she did not like it. She says she likes the stock bumper better.

 

I agree to all of this. Except I don't think you will hate it that bad. I loved welding in high school and that was a class.

 

ehh i’m just giving yall shit about it. adam did text me a over the weekend one night with a great story.

I agree. even though i’d kinda like to open my own fab shop up at some point.


Tell the truth in a way i kinda wish i would have just bought a mig welder and taught my self. I’m wanting to get a mig or maybe a mig/tig welder anyways. Just wait till i get on mig and i’ll teach you what they teach me.

I hate this stick welding and don’t know how much longer i will be on it.( probably another month or two.) most stuff is going away from stick welding only areas that really use it still is pipe and some ship building or some in the field repair type work. a lot of stuff is moving to mig or even tig welding or some other type of welding. if you want to make the big money(like $20+ an hour) you pretty much only option is to travel or go work at say like Y12 or Alcoa.

 

False we use stick welding a lot in tank building. I also use it more are home than mig anymore. The thing i like about it is the fact that you have a good selection of rods for all different types of welds.

 

well yeah tank building would be good. We where just told that some stuff is moving away from it, but some types of stuff still used it a lot. they said ship building/ pipe and some other stuff(they did not name every thing that uses it still)


IMO mig is just as good maybe light better for any fab work and easier to weld with. I really fucking hate 6010 rods, makes me want to cut my wrist....(figuratively speaking, no i’m not going to kill my self even if someone or some people would like me to) once i get done with over head T plates i start over with 7018, than move on to butt plates and open butt plates. before i can mig weld witch is what i really want to do.

 

Stick is just as easy if not easier, as long as you set the machine right it will Damn near weld it for you. However I really like mig as long as your in a controlled environment.

 

Shit. Yes I would NOT cut it. I suppose I could bust out advanced math though to see how much cutting it would help or hurt. I might can swing by next weekend when I come home

 

OK, I see where youre coming from, but I still associate LT with baja type things, and SA with crawlilng. so NO, im not entirely wrong, you just need to learn to see it from my point of view

 

You saying that is only going to make him do it. Makes me want to do it even more now that you said not to haha

 

I say three 12 volt batteries and some jumper cables and rods!

 

Do you guys know if bilsteins set to 2.5 would cause tire rub on the UCA once swapped out with TC UCA's? Mine are currently set to .85" and I'm thinking about moving up to 1.75 or 2.5 but cant decide. I figure adding this higher will help the very tiny rub i have with the 35's on the cab mount (i dont think i can afford to chop anymore! haha). Im assuming this will work. whats better, 1.75 or 2.5 setting?

 

What springs are you running? Anything other than stock springs should not be set to 2.5. That's mine and kurts set up- 2.5 with stock springs. As far as rubbing on the uca's... that all depends on rim backspacing. I'm on stock uca's and TX rims with no issues.