"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
07/16/2017 at 23:46 • Filed to: None
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
07/16/2017 at 23:46 • Filed to: None | 6
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Found an old truck exhaust that was rusted to bits with some dingy-ass tips on it. Measured them up and they looked like they’d be a perfect fit for the XJ-S. Wire-wheeled the CRAP out of the things and grabbed a welder.
[insert muffler here]
There we go. Welding on a car is possibly the worst thing ever. I have yet to get a single weld that doesn’t look like birdshit crap on a car. Off a car I’ve done a whole catback using a harbor freight flux welder and it looked great but even with a Miller I can’t do shit against gravity. Needs a driver mod, probably. Oh well. The exhaust sounds much nicer. Less “chuff chuff” noise from the small-diameter axleback and more burble. Given that these tips are basically open-ended resonators that makes sense.
Also tightened up some slop from the front wheel bearings, now the pulsing vibration on the highway is gone and the car feels MUCH smoother and nicer. Very pleased. Still need to get a new steering rack. Mine literally pours power steering fluid from the left boot and I need an inner tie rod as well. Ugh.
sony1492
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/17/2017 at 00:01 |
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Look on the bright side, you have a lift to weld on the exhaust
Wagon Guy drives a Boostang
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/17/2017 at 00:12 |
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Progress is good!
notsomethingstructural
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/17/2017 at 00:23 |
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If overhead welding was easy everyone would do it. That’s the kind of thing they test you on after a semester in trade school. It’s fucking hard.
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> notsomethingstructural
07/17/2017 at 00:37 |
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I feel better now.
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notsomethingstructural
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/17/2017 at 00:54 |
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I’m a structural engineer / specifier, technically everyone who welds in NYC is supposed to be licensed but most of us are somewhat lax about checking if the weld looks good (depending on client / project naturally). But we check the cards for anyone who did an overhead weld.
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/17/2017 at 08:46 |
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Oh yeah welding upwards is an utter ballache. I find upping the wire speed ever so slightly tends to help, but I still end up dropping beads of weld onto my arms and legs and anything else that’s underneath the thing.