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Ford 8.8 axle swap
Seabee_BUC:
--- Quote from: Axle on January 14, 2008, 07:18:28 PM ---I know Scott's welder is plenty to do the welds, but it's going to need gas for the shielding to make the beads strong enough. Could someone please post a link to a place where I can get the proper gas? I'd appreciate it.
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Justin,
I found out where I can get a bottle of gas. Don't sweat over that. When do you think you're going to be ready for putting brackets on? I'm guessing somewhere right around the first of Feb right?
Axle:
--- Quote from: Seabee_BUC on January 15, 2008, 03:37:59 AM ---
--- Quote from: Axle on January 14, 2008, 07:18:28 PM ---I know Scott's welder is plenty to do the welds, but it's going to need gas for the shielding to make the beads strong enough. Could someone please post a link to a place where I can get the proper gas? I'd appreciate it.
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Justin,
I found out where I can get a bottle of gas. Don't sweat over that. When do you think you're going to be ready for putting brackets on? I'm guessing somewhere right around the first of Feb right?
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Yup. As soon as I get my tax money, I'll be parting with it :'( . I still haven't decided what I'm doing about the brackets yet, but I'm leaning towards ordering the new ones. I'll have to get with Cheeks on that one. Or, if someone knows someone with a plasma cutter, that would help a lot. As far as your supplies go, I would like to pay for what I use. I'm no welder (obviously), but I'm pretty sure these welds are going to take a lot of wire and gas. When we get closer to game day, we should get together to get the supplies.
Seabee_BUC:
It really shouldn't take that much. A roll of wire is like $10 and a bottle of gas is $34 so it isn't expensive. In fact I bet we'll barely use half of that for the whole job. We'd have plenty to weld the rest of your control arms...LOL
Axle:
I know what I said earlier about your welder being enough, but given my lack of knowledge on the matter, are you sure your welder is big enough for a job this serious? A control arm break was bad enough, I really don't want something as catastrophic as the bracket snapping off.
albsvx:
the part I really want to know is ... once you get this new axle in, are you gonna wheel it like you stole it?
:)
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