034x4's D44 SAS thread...

[jasonb]

Oh ok.. I thought you were trying to stick that too! I don't think you'll have much luck with even a flux core unless you stitch it.. you may need gas to get it to weld easily. I know that made all the difference in the world with welding on my Samurai body.

 

[mynameisaric]

OAW it together.. muahahahahaha.. it might take you 74 consecutive hours, but at least its a little more controlable. But i guess thats what some genius came up with TIG for.. (of which i know nothing about, cuz i dont start that until the second half of the semester.)

 

[RockRanger]

When I bobbed my bed I welded it back together with .035 flux core wire. What I did to stop the burn threw is I backed the area I was welding with a 1" wide strip of scrap sheet metal. Then I just did a bunch of spot welds till I had it all filled in. That seamed like the best way I could figure out.

 

[034x4]

Thanks for the tip rockranger. I am using .035" wire also.

Someone care to further ellaborate what "stitching" is exactly?

 

[RockRanger]

Lots of spot welds. I would do a spot weld every inch or so down one side then go do it on the other side then come back to the side I started on. Took a bunch of time to do it though.

 

[034x4]

Sounds like the only way it will work. Any kind of bead/puddle burns right through it.

 

[RockRanger]

One thing I noticed is that when I was welding the bottom of the bed back together it was much easier then the vertical parts. I could have saved alot of time if I would have pulled the bed off and flipped it so I was always welding on something level. Could have been just the operator though.

 

[jasonb]

The way I've "stitch" welded on the Samurai tub was a lot of pulsing basically. I know they make special guns for that, but essentially, you pull trigger as if doing a spot weld, release, before the red hot goes away pull trigger again putting another spot against the previous one. It takes a bit to get to where you can do it well, but after doing a lot of work on the Zuk sheet metal, I could make the weld look like a normal weld without much effort. It's not the fastest technique but it is the only way I could get a nice looking and consitent weld on that stuff without burning through. I was using both .23 and .30 wire with gas.

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

I might just mount the stock tank in the bed for the time being until I can figure out a for sure way to use another tank or a fuel cell.

How about dual tanks like from the early 90's F-150's

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

also sorry if i missed somthing but what happned to your front fenders.

 

[034x4]

I'll try that jason, but it's looking pretty ugly lol.

SkanlaxJMO. Dual tanks would defeat the purpose of getting rid of the stock tank...???

I used to have fiberglass fenders and sold them, it says that earlier in the thread.

 

[SkanlaxJMO]

SkanlaxJMO. Dual tanks would defeat the purpose of getting rid of the stock tank...???

as in both F-150 tanks

 

[034x4]

I'm relocating the tank so I can run a 4-link suspension. The only room I would have to put a tank is a fuel cell or stock tank in truck bed, or a BII tank b/t frame-rails behind the axle.

 

[JS91X]

well idk if i'd mount my tank there...i had a bad experience with my old fullsize bronc on the trail and it had a tank b/t the frame rails...lets just say it had one huge puncture thru the skid plate and lots of gas on the trail and a ROYAL PITA to fix

 

[slravene]

ive seen a ranger around charlotte with a fuel cell mounted inside of one of those toolbox things that go behind the cab. It took up about 2/3 of the box with recovery gear taking up the other 1/3. It was a pretty smooth setup with the fill cap right through the side of the bed and into the box.

 

[034x4]

Got the bed 3/4 the way sheetmetal'd. Need to get one more sheet. For some reason the pics make it look like the sheets are bent up and tweaked and nasty. But their not...?? O well.

 

[034x4]

2" wheel spacers are on the way so I can finally get my turning radius back...

 

[supergildo]

Wheel Spacers?!?!?!?!

 

[redranger4.0]

i was gonna say the same thing. seems like a good way to ruin a really good build

 

[034x4]

The turning is rediculously ****ty. I'm going to see how it is with them on.