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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #540 on: April 13, 2011, 09:50:55 PM »
Now thats lucky!  I was worried she was done for!
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« Reply #541 on: April 14, 2011, 04:25:15 AM »
A TJ, can never truly be "done for", only closer to "TJuggy" Candidate.    ;D
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« Reply #542 on: April 14, 2011, 04:34:18 AM »
Wait, you got the insurance company to fix the jeep and it got paid off!!! I can only hope that if I get hit by someone a. i don't get hurt and b. they have the same insurance company!

Yeah.. They gave me like 18,500 - 8500 payoff - 3500 buy back. So i got like 6500 back. I went to the shop and told him to fix everything but the airbags and I wasnt paying more than 5000 for repairs... He agreed. So 1500 dollars in spare parts (corner guards, lights, license plate bracket, hood latches, drag link ends, control arm mounts, control arm end link, tie rod ends, etc) and here we are now.
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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #543 on: April 15, 2011, 01:33:26 AM »
Delicious. 
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« Reply #544 on: April 15, 2011, 06:37:13 PM »
All of that said, these guys have little to no business near a welding machine.. Bill, when I get to CT, you think you can help me re weld in my control arm mounts properly? I'm all about a roll of nickels.. they just put gobs of metal on it and hopefully it holds...  :-[ If not, I'll have to talk to Pete at CT Axle.
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Offline Bill3753

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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #545 on: April 16, 2011, 07:28:27 AM »
We can check whats there for sure.  I enjoy welding, so I don't mind at all.

In the shop's defense though, welding vertical welds and welding up-side-down (like you need to do for the control arm mounts) is tought to do.  It takes a lot of practice to get it right.  When I MIG welding like this, I normally use some "tip dip" to keep the nozel clean and add a little extra flux.  Then, weld with 75%/25% CO2-Argon mix.  You get more splatter then you do with pure argon, but you also get better penetration on the weld when welding with the mix.  Final thing to do is prep the weld area CLEAN.  When actually welding, since your working against gravity, lay down small 1.5" to 2" beads.  If you try to weld much more then that you'll probably get the whole area too hot and the filler metal will fall out.
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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #546 on: April 16, 2011, 07:01:51 PM »
Oh I know how hard welding upside down is... I'm the emergency welder on my ship. Lol. I just don't have my own welder or any kind of mig experience. I only do tig. That is excellent advice though. I guess in their defense, you are right, but I did pay professionals to do a professional job.. I think that's more of my concern. That I have to do it over again.
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« Reply #547 on: April 16, 2011, 08:15:18 PM »
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« Reply #548 on: April 19, 2011, 02:10:16 AM »
Those are trick, but it's still a liberty.  hehe ;D
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« Reply #549 on: April 20, 2011, 12:31:07 AM »
Those are trick, but it's still a liberty.  hehe ;D

Liberty or not, it's still B.A.
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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #551 on: May 06, 2011, 12:31:55 PM »
whats stopping you.
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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #552 on: May 06, 2011, 12:38:18 PM »
whats stopping you.

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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #553 on: May 06, 2011, 02:18:27 PM »
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Re: Official B.S. Thread
« Reply #554 on: May 07, 2011, 06:07:39 PM »
For those of you who don't know, I'm in Virginia on vacation with the wife and kid for the week.  Why do I bring this up you ask?  I've seen more ridiculous huge lifted mall crawler diesel and gas trucks in my two days here then you'll see in two years in Connecticut.  Got to love the south, right?
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