Recent content by Hambone

Thanks for the tips. I’ve been good about keeping the tungsten sharp and cleaning it if I dip it. I started with the welder at the max amps needed and had a ton of people tell me to up the amps to get the puddle formed faster. Which that helped but I still feel like I need the pedal maxed out...

Thanks I may come down Sunday for the day to walk around and if I do I’ll stop by and say hi.

I’m out to make it unfortunately. Didn’t realize it’s the same week as trail hero and we are out there till Saturday.

I’d take all 5 but I’m in Vegas. I’ll be heading to SoCal later this month to pick up parts though and can grab them then.

Been getting ready for tacos on the rubicon next week so not much progress. Got some double shear steering done. Just need to do the passenger side. And welded and capped the front upper shock mounts And finally got harnesses in the crawler.

Been practicing tig welding. Torch angle is the main thing I feel I have issue with which is causing me to have issues with the filler rod and moving to slow. Had lots of good suggestions and no shame in posting. Decent progress for just 3-4 hours of practice. First picture is some of the...

Finished welding the radiator mount. There’s two neighbor hood kids that asked to learn to weld and fabricate so they’ve come over a few days. Told them I’d save the wing for them to practice welding on since it’ll get ground smooth and blended. Finished the rear bumpstops and some other welding...

Radiator mount

Welded out the rear of the truck the best I could. I’m hoping when the body comes off I can roll it on the sides to do the bottoms instead of laying on my back. Got everything capped and got the radius tube gussets I want in on the back and front and got the ones for in the cab cut but I’ll wait...

And seats showed up. Got that gator

Think I got the last of the tubes in the rear and the rear bumper done. The interwebs told me the bumpstops would rip out of the frame so ran two tubes down that the bump can will weld to the back of. Few other gusset tubes and some side pieces around the tire to give it a more complete look...

got more stuff done before my dad left. We got the trans cooler in. He got a bunch of tube in the rear and I got the gas pedal in and fit a few tubes in the subframe to brace the upper rear links. Minus an upper tube for the radiator and a lower tube over the tire, and some gussets in the front...

My dad’s here for a few days and we are getting things done. Steering is in minus one link between 2 u joints. Also got the brake pedal mounted. Few more tubes in the rear. Didn’t like the summit radiator I got so holding off on mounting that while I wait for a griffin one to show up. Got the...

Mas panels… can’t wait to be done with them. Just one more section around the fuel cell to do

Firewalls done. Few more panels and the panels will be mostly done.