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TotalyHucked

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Drug it back into my buddy’s shop with his tractor. Almost ripped the bumper off [emoji23]
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I pulled the rusted grill and used rust treatment on it and the area behind it. Painted it a steel gray color and reinstalled. Also installed a chrome hubcap that's been off the right rear wheel for years. Might have to replace the other three now. Pulled the large sideview mirrors and went with small one's.
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Got my exhaust welded up today. Never joined stainless to mild steel before. I dont get the hype...seemed easy enough. I didnt even change settings between mild/mild and stnl/mild.
I know the welds dont look good but hey...neither do my other welds,LOL
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Got my exhaust welded up today. Never joined stainless to mild steel before. I dont get the hype...seemed easy enough. I didnt even change settings between mild/mild and stnl/mild.
I know the welds dont look good but hey...neither do my other welds,LOL
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Looks damned good to me, you should see my welds.:oops:
 

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Drug it back into my buddy’s shop with his tractor. Almost ripped the bumper off [emoji23]
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Sweet truck.
 

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Looks damned good to me, you should see my welds.:oops:

Thanks ! I was kinda proud since This was actually my first time for thin exhaust, first time with the Lincoln weld-pac(never used flux core before), first time welding stainless to mild steel. Only thing ive ever done is stick welding and I Tig welded fire extinguishers for Amerex but that was 23 years ago and on industrial jigs with 50k machines.
 

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Damn, that's alot of chain?? Go easy on the ole girl!
Was trying to spread the load so I didn’t bend the bumper in half in the middle [emoji23][emoji23]


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Was trying to spread the load so I didn’t bend the bumper in half in the middle [emoji23][emoji23]


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The holes in the step bumpers are to receive trailer hitch balls. As long as the front bumper isn't attached to a tree use those with or without a ball and save yourself some trouble next time. ;)
 

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Got my exhaust welded up today. Never joined stainless to mild steel before. I dont get the hype...seemed easy enough. I didnt even change settings between mild/mild and stnl/mild.
I know the welds dont look good but hey...neither do my other welds,LOL
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Better then anything i can do...
 

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The holes in the step bumpers are to receive trailer hitch balls. As long as the front bumper isn't attached to a tree use those with or without a ball and save yourself some trouble next time. ;)
Lol yeah I thought about that. But that’s also not the heaviest duty chain in the world so I didn’t want it to snap and hit the truck. All good now, don’t plan on doing that again [emoji23] It’ll get a sport bumper sometime in the spring as well


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Got my exhaust welded up today. Never joined stainless to mild steel before. I dont get the hype...seemed easy enough. I didnt even change settings between mild/mild and stnl/mild.
I know the welds dont look good but hey...neither do my other welds,LOL
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Its hype because at the different rates the two metal types expand and constrict, theres more to it than I can remember, but at work we have ss wire to weld on stainless trailer door openings

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