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What did you remove? Just the control arms?

 

@EatSleepTacos you can do this in two hours. Easy peasy.

 

I have not. Had a lot of people inquire but it’s never happened. Nice thing about it is you don’t have to remove the old ones. That’s my least favorite part of the chaos install.

 

Ah, okay. I was hoping you had some input as to why these certain gussets kick my ass. Or maybe I'm just getting old and slow.

 

I agree with @GHOST SHIP i use wire wheels in that area and I really like to use that Milwaukee angled die grinder. The wire wheels are also nice because they won’t leave grind marks in your work.

 

Yeah, I exclusively use that die grinder now. Do you use a wire wheel on that? Or angle grinder?

 

Made a bracket for my ARB compressor.

 

I use them in a drill

 

Few fun ones of some gussets that are gonna get covered up by a bigger truss

 

All I removed was the skid plate and the wheels. The truck didn’t have a sway bar though but that wouldn’t have been too intrusive. Left the LCAs in place. I did a bunch of staring and fitting of the parts and head scratching before I actually got to work but overall the frame clean up and welding was just over 2 hours if I’m not mistaken. I’m not saying it wasn’t challenging, but for me that was mostly due to working on jack stands and on my back.

 

Ah okay. The trucks I did wanted everything removed, cleaned up, and all. I spent a long time disassembling and reassembling the arms and cam hardware, also one of them had seized cam bolts.

 

Never laid a single bead in my life and have been looking into getting into welding/fabrication. I'm currently deployed and was looking into picking up my first welder and kind of teach myself. Was looking into the hobart 140 to learn on and get some hours in. Would this be a good choice? Any other machines you guys would recommend? TIA

 

Just think If you only billed 6 hours of labor to weld on cam bolt gussets

at only $50.00/hour would people pay $300.00 plus the cost of the parts to have this done.

Do more suspension or steering work things could get expensive

 

Not a bad choice in machine.

Start watching videos now so you have a understanding of what your looking at.

If a welding class is possible it never hurts though at times I wonder how some teachers get hired.

The trick is to be able to make the puddle dance how you want on a constant basis.

The most important is be able to see and second is be comfortable .

Welding on vehicles is the second most difficult thing The first is doing floors in garbage trailers or trucks at least to me.

 

I've seen alot more paid for less here on this site. People will pay well for what they want. It's like a hobby. Hobbies make you no money, but cost plenty.

 

I started learning on a Hobart 140 a little over a year ago and it has been a great machine.

 

Amen

 

Is that a question or statement? Depends on what you value the mod as. As common as bent cam tabs are and the amount of damage that can be done if not addressed far outweighs the numbers you just came up with. That said, you'd have to find someone with a $50/hr labor rate. Most shops I'm aware of charge at least $100/hr labor.

 

I was being very cheap on the labor rate.

Thing is around here every body and their kids weld so having it done for pizza is the normal .

Not that things are always done correct

 

Ran a few practice beads for social distancing. I always had inconsistent spatter and sputtering when welding 3/16" up. Sometimes it would be fine and on occasion, sputter. I think I found the culprit after all this time. I was running my welder at "240v" using an extension cord I made from 12ga. It should work fine considering how much current the M211 pulls at that voltage but I guess it had enough voltage drop to make the welder inconsistent.
I made a new cord out of 10ga and the welder now runs cleaner beads when turned up.