Thanks man! I appreciate the support

Tomorrow ;)

It’s a wood/metal bandsaw with variable speed motor on it, I just flip a knob and it will slow down for metal or can speed up for wood 👍🏼 not sure on what the speed is set at though

whats up dude! If you look at 5:27 in the video you can see before I welded the bung into the tube how big the chamfer was between the two peices. You are absolutely right about giving it enough room to penetrate, especially on this thick of material. Every bung we use from Kartek and for the most part ever one ive seen in general has a chamfer on it already so you dont need to on the tubing side. I chamfer all my tube joints as well so the bead profile lays down nicer when im welding them out. Its all in the details! haha, as far as the drain hole goes, im not worried about it, the heim and jam nut seal the end of the tube off water tight and ive never had an issue with it on our two other trucks setup like this. We dont mud/water bog these trucks either so they never are submerged in the first place. - Christian

It’s a certi-flat weld table 🤘🏼

Heims have much less give and they are really noisy /clicky in some cases, unless you are 4Xing lots it's probably not worth the upgrade

Thanks dude! You can go to a heim steering setup on the truck, which will make it more rigid than the balljoints are. There is no "ride" difference per say just the deflection of the balljoints isnt there anymore and you dont have to worry about a balljoint coming apart on you. Keep in mind, the cost of maintance on heims is going to be more and the chances of a shop aligning it for you may go out the window depending on how you go about building the steering. If you decide to do it, do not cheap out on hiems either, run the FK brand "JMX" series heims or youll replacing them alot more often than you'd anticipate haha I have learned the hard way. - Christian

Wings World Much appreciated Christian. Maybe I will start with the drag link and see how it works. I need some big heims for the traction bars I’m going to fab up, will def hit your guy @ Kartek. I do have something I’d like to talk with you about. It’s about a truck but it’s a weird situation I wanted to chat with you about since you’re down in SD. Is there a way to contact you at your convenience?

Thanks for the compliment dude, I will typically Mig stuff that is over 3/16" material just because the time spent double or triple passing a part is extremely time consuming, like in this case doing all this 1/4" to 1/4" stuff would take me forever to fully weld out haha! I enjoy tig welding, but I tend to do it on more accent/beauty oriented parts or in spots where a mig weld will interfere with clearance on other things - Christian

Wings World I’ve been mig welding for years. Just picked up my first tig welder and started practicing. It is definitely a different skill set. I got a Lincoln square wave 175 pro. Nothing fancy but should do the job while I learn.

It’s a JET 18” wood/metal bandsaw

@@TheChristianEwing right on brotha, im gonna check that out.. thanks!

There was no calculation really, you can make the radius arms as long as you’d like, actually the longer the better to an extent since the longer it is the less caster change you will see 👍🏼 but I just placed the radius arm mounts where I could and then set my wheel base, and that determined how long my radius arm was going to be

@@TheChristianEwing thanks. Got a ttb 4x4 d50 that I'm hoping to build. Has Dana 44 currently

Appreciate the support man! Its a JET 414418 18-Inch Metal/Wood Vertical Bandsaw

I was gonna ask the same question but I just scrolled to the comments very helpful you replying! 🤙🏽

What do you mean?

@@ChristianEwingVD mainly your welding wiggle technique. At the start you show it but a far shot that's sped up :(

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