fabbing up high steer arms?

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Hammered, el señor del torno me dijo que me puede hacer el high steer me cobra 125000 colones, yo hice los dibujos en autocad basado en las piesas que puse en el carro, solo tengo que confirmar las medidas si estan bien, mañana pongo los dibujos en el foro

Hammered the machinist told me that he charges 125000 colones for the highsteer, I maid the Auto cad draws based on the steering arms, that I have already on the car, I just have to confirm the mesurments, I will post the drawins tomorrow

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Its weird but my 72 I bought has a high steer arm on the passenger side but the long rod still runs from side to side under the already spring over suspensin! What in the heck is up with that???:mad:
 
Is this setup good,safe, or even leagal? All the others I see are both above for SOA setups.I just dont wanna cause undue harm to the vehicle or other drivers for that matter.But thank you for the info. I figured as such just hadnt seen any others on here like that.
 
Pin_Head said:
Por lastima, amigo. La ley es la ley en la costa de los ricos. En Mexico, todo es possible con mordita.


I think your are confusing welding steel and cast iron. While preheating, peening and slow cooling is critical for cast iron welding, it is not so critical for steel.

The rate of cooling will determine whether the steel is normalized vs fully annealed (slow cooling), but the fully annealed state is the softest and least desirable for this application. The best would be proper heat treatment with quenching and tempering depending on what alloy it is. This would give you the highest possible tensile strength.
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I see why ya call yourself pin head.
Your famous on this form.
thousands of posts

WTF do you know about Costa Rica?
No moriditas here at the tec. revision.
I Just got a $420 fine 2 weeks ago and couldn't bribe my way out of it and had a pocket full of cash!

Sure as hell can't buy a free pass at the technical revision. they make sure of that with cameras and big signs of harsh fines and jail time for offering bribes.

I don't claim to be an expert welder (25 years industrial welder though so no dummy)

I talk to some old time welders that rework model T hotrod steering arms the way I explained.

I trusted them and did it the way these 2 / 60+ year old boys from BC told me to do it.
Still running strong after a couple years with 35'' tires and pot holes that will trash near any 4x4 on the road.
I guess if I did it wrong I would have posted I on this tread the welding don't work, for gods sakes delete the post i put on.
Never weld like most other welding forms say.

If I had been in the USA I would have just bought a set.
Don't weld them buy them!

For you that are reading this pissing contest between pin head and me.


Do not under any circumstances weld these and toss them in a bucket of water.
Better to have one bend on you than shatter like glass and send you out of control down the road putting every one in danger.

You don't want them tempered like glass.
Maybe Pin head can control it by dunking.


Mild steel and cast steel are different.
do a google search on cast steel welding and see what it says.
basically come up with a NFG result and says don't do it

What this whole thread came down too way don't weld them in the back yard or garage.

I posted the welding procedure I used because it was a learning curve and might be helpful to others if they needed to weld cast steel.

Just buy some aftermarket arms and not even consider the welding, bending or wishbone crap.
 
Howdy! Just a little personal experience on this. I had my SOA done about 25 years ago, and the only way we new about back then was to weld up a double arm like the Warden's version. It worked good for years. I have pushed the rig pretty hard over the years, and I have made some mistakes that should have broke something, but it did not. Two years ago, after running down the freeway at 75+, I pulled into a parking lot, and the arm fell off. No reason, just did. I could see that the welds had been failing over a long time, but the cracks were no visible under paint. Kinda scary. I don't know if I am lucky, or unlucky!. I do know that I won't use a welded setup again. Too bad someone up here can't send a set to you as a "gift" to avoid all the extra expenses. Any chance someone could draw them up in CAD and have them milled out in a CNC setup? John
 
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