If I was going off your wife's rule the Malibu would be getting wheeled.
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1982 C/K 6.0L Caitlyn Mall Crawler (Interior time)
- Thread starter Babaganoosh
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Found a shop to bend the tube for the 2nd half of the hoops. 1.75 .120 wall Dom going to sleve it onto the Ord hoops with Dom. Paying 80 dollars.
Here is the pictures of the 2nd leg of the hoop and the sleeve pieces. They cut it extra long and didn't charge me so I got extra scraps to learn to weld on.
For this weekend I hope to get the hoops tacked in and the xj steering shaft in as well if I have extra time I'll see if I can get the frame plates started.
I want to sleeve the tubes and plug weld it, how far apart should my plugs be and how big of a hole? Yes I will be doing the welding I figure as long as I have plenty of heat going in who cares what it looks like I'm going to grind it down anyway. Is that ok?
I want to sleeve the tubes and plug weld it, how far apart should my plugs be and how big of a hole? Yes I will be doing the welding I figure as long as I have plenty of heat going in who cares what it looks like I'm going to grind it down anyway. Is that ok?
y5mgisi
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As long as you also weld around the sleeve, then pretty much do whatever you feel like.
Yes where the tubes meet I'll do a chamfer on both tubes then weld around it joining with the sleeve and also plug welding it. I'm going for overkill but I want it done right.
y5mgisi
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Then if i was you, i would do about a 1/2" hole, approx 2" from the ends of the sleeve tube. And do two on each side for a total of 4 plug welds. Thats just what i would do. Hopefully Wade will check in and tell you the right way.
I was thinking about 4 plug welds on each side of the chamfer and staggering 2 from the other 2. Hopefully that makes sense. I bought a step drill bit on my way home, hopefully it works never used one.
Step drill is your best friend. You will be more than good with what you are planning.
The sleve piece they gave me go outside of the hoops rather then inside.
I'm pretty sure I have some 1.5" .120 wall if you need it. That's what you need to slip inside the 1.75" .120 wall.
Maybe not sure I got some left over tube laying around I might be able to use.
The sleve piece they gave me go outside of the hoops rather then inside.
I was wondering what was going on with that. It definitely looked bigger.
That would be quite fugly
I'm not sure, I told them I wanted the sleeve piece to be the od of the id of the hoops.
Hmm maybe that is why they were wrong then.
Hmm maybe that is why they were wrong then.
I am thinking so lol.
But did it make sense to you? Told them I wanted it to slip inside the hoop.
I got some 1.5x.25 tubing left over from the first drag link. Mmmmm beef it's what's for dinner.
I got some 1.5x.25 tubing left over from the first drag link. Mmmmm beef it's what's for dinner.
I know what you meant to say. It's just worded weird. Plus I knew what you wanted, they may not have and just heard od and thought ok here you go....
y5mgisi
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Ah I see now. I saw your tube and just thought you planned on the over sleeve. That's why I didn't care much about how you plug welded!
