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No she's a trailer QueenAwesome.
Did you drive to the trail? If so how does handle at frreway speeds & mountain roads?
Thank you for the tips.Seems like you are pretty well there on the sheet metal now but for future reference.
I take the factory seam sealer off several ways. Dry ice works great, make a slurry using rubbing alcohol. Hard to put this in wheel wells though. For that, I burn the s*** out of it with a mapp torch. Then hit it with a wire wheel on the 4” grinder or on the die grinder. It is dirty and nasty but works good and doesn’t waste expensive flap discs.
Also, if you are worried about zinc or can’t get it clean enough for good welds, the SpeedyBlaster is the tool of choice for prep. I got a blast cabinet too and sand blast as much as I can for welding prep these days. I buy a new bracket or make one, it gets blasted before any welding.
$500 CL score plus a few hundred to fix it up.
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Cheap, messy but works good for anything on body/chassis.
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As you figured out, .23 for sheet metal. I turn up the speed a lot too. Allows me to lay beads vs tack tack tack. I of course start with racks and control heat so no warpage but 2”-3+” beads is no issue.
Cheers
What were you before with 37s?Went and got her weighed today. As she sets with a full size spare (39") recovery gear, some spare parts and tools, she weighs in at 5600lbs.
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The last time It was weighted it still had the 35s no tire/camping gear rack ,no front axle truss and a few other small thing it was at 5400lbWhay were you before with 37s?
I thought is was the water fall at the end of Aftershock. I didn’t know it had a name either.That's the name of the obstacle your pic is on, dork
Yeah, though there's some tricky stuff after itI thought is was the water fall at the end of Aftershock. I didn’t know it had a name either.
That front end will drop out further with the new longer shocksIn Action at Pismo
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Edit* I added the one right before that one too.
These just arrived, I'm pretty pumped, I well be getting these installed along with a small laundry list of thing I need to do to get ready to run the Dusy Ershim trail in September. I am already running them in the front, these are for the rear Thanks Christo!! View attachment 2386746
No, I called three times left two messages, they never got back to me.Did RCV ever confirm the dowel size?
There must be reason RCV set it up that way, don't really want to drill the new flanges just would like the dowels to go into hubs a bit more. Plus I am already set on a path.I would rather go to larger studs and skip the dowels. Larger studs can handle higher torque and therefor apply greater clamping force. Clamping force is what’s holding the axle from spinning on the hub. The dowels seem to be more of an aid in the case of insufficiently torqued studs. Think of how tons are set up.