I ain't the only TENNESSEAN here, where the hell are Y'all????

I wanna build trucks - and so do YOU.

TALK TO US.

We are not a small community...

And what we need isn't "shop talk" or basic general convo -

It's "Who the hell has what we need in our own state!"

So who's got some info?

I WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

We ALL know good shops near where we live, and I want to know about that.

Hell, I been outta state for a while and I still posted about C&H driveline and a few others...

Are you folk lost????


PS (on edit) Before I am done - I want to see Ken Payne launch a forum on "SUPER TRUCKS" because of what we did.


~Wolf

 

My Truck is near as built as it can be.. I'm pushing 400 hp and over 700 ftlb at present, with mayber 450 hp and over 1000 ftlb in the near future.

I want to get another Bronco - I had a beauty, '79 with a built 400, giving 400 rwhp and 350 ftlb. That was some truck, but it had to go, when the nasties tried to kidnap Sarah.. (we had to get out of town fast, and needed the money.

I think I will try to get a '90's Bronco, next, and squeeze a Powerstroke in there, with F250 suspension.

OR........

I will get something REALLY big, like another F9500, and turn it into a daily driver.

Theo

 

I wonder what I can do with a cutting torch, wire feed, and a turbo diesel school bus frame from down HWY 51 near my place.

It might not end up 4X4, but I bet it can plow like a big dog!

I was toying with the idea of sectioning out the rear frame over the springs and sandwiching it onto a pickup frame. That would provide the leaf spring hangers and all, if the width of the spring saddles was anywhere close to the PU frame width.

(And saddles can always be moved over on the axle housing)

 

I need to borrow you sometime Wolfe, I am equipped with torches and gear, but cannot weld to save my life....

Theo

 

I understand the concepts involved on a theoretical level, and have done a little bit.

In essence - we add thermal energy to a solid until it achieves a plastic, or liquid state - at which time various metals will meld, or similar metals will flow into one another.

The greatest hazard is in allowing the join to become contaminated by oxygenation or various contaminants such that either the metal changes composition or it is mixed in with a material which inherently prevents an even bond.

-Grease, for example, or rust.

And aluminum at a certain temperature will literally burn, just as a cutting flame or pure oxygen will burn through steel.

This is the "why" of having inert gases playing on the weld, so as to provide a barrier against oxygen entry until the metal cools.

Err...

Etcetra, etcetra....

~Wolfy

 

Eh?

Eh?

Me being Canadian

 

Ever join two candles together?

Heat it up until the wax flows...

If water gets into it, what happens?

It's rather like THAT...

 

* theo grabs hold of bits of truck, places match beneath, and grumbles loudly..*

 

Err, uuh...

I think it will require a few more therms than that...

 

Also a coat hanger maybe????



*****

 

coat hanger ??

 

To use for a welding rod........

*****

 

Hey Gray Wolf Im a member at another site and we have B.S. meets. Had one yesterday in Memphis. Im a new member there but they say their is are about 20 mebbers in the area.