heres a little tig work for you boys, on my drop pitman arm

some days are good some days are bad, especially with 110 and no sheilding gas flux core hahaha

Deavers ftw.

The 5150's are the remote reservoir's right?



Holy shit dont think you will be breaking that thing anytime soon..

This post was edited by Killerme99 on Jun 28 2010 02:01pm

Don't worry about it; people around here like to criticize, regardless of the fact that they know fuck all about what they're criticizing.

That TIG work is fucking beautiful, by the way. Little bit of undercut (Did you use filler?), but the welds themselves are A+.

I'm a machinist by trade, but I did a lot of welding in the 5 years I worked at a fab shop. We used to build hydraulics (To go on telescoping booms for hydro-vac trucks), hydraulic tanks, etc. We went through a lot of welders, and I picked up the slack when we didn't have one at the shop. Flux/solid/metal core MIG, and mild steel/aluminum TIG.

yep resi's and i fucking love them and the devers are amazing, they work awsome and are a great company to deal with





yeah i used filler haha thank you, when im not in a hurry and trying to build something nice i can weld with some of the best, but for this truck i dont much care as long as i burn it in haha


now on the go fast pre runner truck im building at the shop, thats another story, everythings slow and pretty hahahaha STACKM THEM DIMES BABY

damn, big tire. i got 36in iroks. i agree completely.

updates!


To get the gas tank back in I lifted it in to place with some ratchet straps and this bar on 2 jack stands, worked pretty well, especially since I was working alone.



The hole is sealed! I put a thick bead of silicone around all the edges and used 16 1/2" long sheet metal screws

Welded on the new perches

Got the brake rotors on. I ran into a problem with the calipers. Im using parking brake calipers and I ordered remaned calipers from the zone, but they didnt come with the parking brake actuating arm and bracket or the brake pad retaining clips. I tried forever to source these parts locally and ended up ordering calipers complete with all the parts from TSM and I will return the other ones to the zone.



Welded on shock tabs



And finally got it back on all 4's and out of the garage. It sits perfectly level with the 30" tall rear tires so it will be about 3" higher with my 37's on it... I'm probably going to need a shorter rear shackle, but if I shorten it too much the pinion angle wont be right and Ill have to re-perch it again which would really piss me off. I guess we'll see...

damm nice truck man!