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[zmotorsports]

Beefing up a client's front dana 44 axle from his 2009 Jeep Wrangler.

Here you can see the holes drilled and I am ready to install the sleeve into the short side axle tube.


Sleeve viewed from the knuckle end.


Long side axle tube with the sleeve installed. You can see the sleeve inside the drilled .5" holes ready for welding.


In progress welding pics.




Rosette weld, sometimes called a plug weld.


Some various welds from the project.






Axle welding completed.




Next up will be cleaning the axle housing for paint and then on to installing the new 5.38 gearset before re-installing it back into the front of the Jeep.

Mike.

 

[coolidge]

Mike please tell me those are TIG welds, if you say those clean spatter free welds are MIG I'm going to feel like a total failure at MIG welding.

 

[zmotorsports]

Mike please tell me those are TIG welds, if you say those clean spatter free welds are MIG I'm going to feel like a total failure at MIG welding.

No TIG welds, those are merely MIG using C-25 gas.

Don't feel like a failure @ MIG, it just takes lots of practice. Trust me, I am no where near where I want to be yet either. I think I need much more practice.

Mike.

 

[Smudgemo]

Does brazing count?

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It's the next size up bicycle for my quickly growing daughter. An elegant join for a more civilized age (to paraphrase Obi-Wan.)

-Ryan

 

[NCjeeper]

Last August I decided to build a welding table that would out live me. I started with $900 dollars worth of steel.

Built the frame and legs using 2x2x1/4 thick stock.

I put it on wheels so I can move it around. I also added a tool box underneath. The top is 1/2" thick.

 

[TOOLMASTER]

Go ahead and say it.....

 

[tomh]

Here is a small drop bed trailer I built I lost most of the photos of the main frame.

 

[tomh]

Here is more pic of it

 

[RJSakowski]

Sweet looking trailer! Well done.

 

[Andy Rafferty]

Just something to heat water with for my locomotive. I've built many but almost always forget the pics. hope you like. 6010+p root, 7018 final pass