1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

Tig aluminum is hard as fuck. It's very easy to see the puddle on steel, but it's a ghost on AL

 

For realz


My instructor told me welding aluminum is like lighting two sheets on paper on fire, sticking them together, then putting the flames out before the paper disintegrates LOL

 

@Wulf never taken a Tacoma diff out of it's axle to see but I'm assuming it's different than the 4 runner one, can't weld this thing for shit

 

Like I said, aesthetics aren't important

 

With as much as you weld steel, you'd pick up this aluminum spoolgun on a mig machine nooooo problem

 

4Runner and Tacoma would be the same.

The axle housing is different, not the third.

 

Makes me want to work with aluminum even more now.

 

8.4 vs 8.0 I know the truss present on the tacoma isn't on the 4r but didn't realize the 4r was a 4 pinion thus didn't have any gaping holes to stick metal and weld in

 

Your skills would ALWAYS be in demand if you get good at TIG

 

I dont really weld that much anymore. Only here and there since Im the dedicated company controls tech/sparky. Im much happier seeing someone else do the welding these days.

 

Yeah who would have thought fugly fake wood trim would be a selling point.

 

They weld fine, you should be welding the spiders together and then putting a plate on either side between them and welding that in too. Turn it up, also if you have trouble with welding two chunks of metal this is a bad project for you

 

I assume than I'm supposed to take apart the carrier?

Can't do much through a 1" by 1.5" hole

 

Noted.

 

You can take it further apart and weld it.

You can also weld the spider gears to the case at every window and pray

 

Turn it to the larger opening, and drain multiple cans of non-chlor brake cleaner all around in it, if its greasy it wont end up well

 

You can weld the corners of the spiders together through that hole in the carrier, eight?

 

don't do this lol, the welds will break off at the cast and the aftermath with be really not nice haha

 

I can only weld the passenger side spider to the carrier and the other spiders, which in theory should be good enough but meh

 

Glad I brought it up