Welding sheet metal (need help)

[Pinsco63]

Pics!

Here is the passenger side cowl.
Its hard to see the pitting in the weld. and those are stitch welds ground down.

this is driver side not as bad pitting

then a few showing state of the truck.

 

[British Slave]

Another question...have you checked the polarity on your machine? I ran into that today. Reverse polarity for flux core, positive polarity for gas.

 

[y5mgisi]

Got the other frame rail done and the rear end out i see! Good job!


EDIT: This is a cool pic!

 

[Pinsco63]

Got the other frame rail done and the rear end out i see! Good job!


EDIT: This is a cool pic!

Yeah never thought I would go this far bra!

The polarity is correct, picked up some .023 wire cleaned everything really good, and wouldn't you know it- it looks great now!

Thanks to everybody who responded, it all helped a lot!
May just have to start a build thread soon.

 

[zombie1969]

If the windshield is good and plan on using it cover it up good and any other glass that's around.Grinding and welding will ruin glass if it lands on it.Nice project!

 

[trevmountain]

I run 30 psi on my miller DVI2 all the time. 22 gauge is like trying to weld toilet paper. Thinner wire will help. I would pulse weld it rather than trying to lay a continuous bead. Mess with your wire speed a bit. Like I said though 22 is gonna be tough no matter what ya do.

 

[y5mgisi]

Here's a pic of last night cutting the u bolts.

 

[y5mgisi]

Scott's stress pile.