Wildman's TJ is getting a face lift

Well DAMN my welds still aren't awesome or even close. But I got it started. Still have more to do tomorrow.

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Well I'll mess with some scrap metal tomorrow and see if I can figure out what is going on. This is a new welder to me so I must not be getting it setup correctly or something.
 
OK been messing around with my welder and practicing some welds.

Let's hear your thoughts. Settings in picture.

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Then I turned the voltage up to 21.5v.

2 welds on the left.

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Well figured out part of the problem. I wasn't getting any gas to the end of the welding cable.

See if you can pick out the 2 welds with shielding gas?

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My welds may not be great but I'm glad I figured out part of the problem.

Thanks for the help @someguysjeep
 
Wildman said:
Well figured out part of the problem. I wasn't getting any gas to the end of the welding cable.

See if you can pick out the 2 welds with shielding gas?

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My welds may not be great but I'm glad I figured out part of the problem.

Thanks for the help @someguysjeep
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I thought it looked like a ton of impurities, glad you got it fixed. Now it’s time to grind off all those old ones ;)
 
mattcogdell said:
How much rear stretch are you going to have?
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The way I am figuring it right now I should be right at 5" of stretch for the rear. If I am right I'll have a 26 5/8" long driveline also.

98" WB as it sits right now unless I try to stretch the front a little more.
 
Wildman said:
The way I am figuring it right now I should be right at 5" of stretch for the rear. If I am right I'll have a 26 5/8" long driveline also.

98" WB as it sits right now unless I try to stretch the front a little more.
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What is keeping you from pushing that rear tire all the way back?
 
mattcogdell said:
What is keeping you from pushing that rear tire all the way back?
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I'm trying to keep it semi-legal to still drive on the street without getting hassled by the SP for no fender flares. I went with Metal Cloak stretch corners and 8" flares. This way I can take them off when I am going to be on a tight trail.
 
Wildman said:
I'm trying to keep it semi-legal to still drive on the street without getting hassled by the SP for no fender flares. I went with Metal Cloak stretch corners and 8" flares. This way I can take them off when I am going to be on a tight trail.
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Just curious, if you’ll wish you would have gone further back at any point.
 
mattcogdell said:
Just curious, if you’ll wish you would have gone further back at any point.
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Yes most likely I will. But the only way to do that and keep it some what legal would be to stretch the tub and frame also. And I did seriously think about doing that.
 
looking a lot better. now that spatter tells you, you are not burning all the material that's going at it, slow the feed down a touch more, may help.
 
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Wildman said:
Yes most likely I will. But the only way to do that and keep it some what legal would be to stretch the tub and frame also. And I did seriously think about doing that.
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What constitutes as legal?

It seems to me as you are referring to fender flares. You could stretch it more even with flares. I’m not familiar with your corners. I sure wouldn’t let corners stop me from getting more WB, especially since this is the time to do it.
 
mattcogdell said:
What constitutes as legal?

It seems to me as you are referring to fender flares. You could stretch it more even with flares. I’m not familiar with your corners. I sure wouldn’t let corners stop me from getting more WB, especially since this is the time to do it.
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I'm not going to try and find the RCW for you but the basic is that your tires are supposed to be covered with a flare and you are required to have a mud flap that hangs to the center of your axle.
I'm back as far as I can and keep it legal without designing a completely custom flare system which is more than I want to do. This will work for me just fine and as I said if I wanted to go back more it would involve cutting my tub and frame and doing a stretch that way.
 
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