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In need of mobile welder. Help

Old Jan 19, 2014 | 01:49 PM
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Jeep on city streets at my buddies house in Sierra Madre/temple city.
Track bar bracket broken.
Need mobile welder to weld it.

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Old Jan 19, 2014 | 03:17 PM
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Biglow is in johnson valley right now but i know he has a welder...portable
Old Jan 19, 2014 | 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by BRUT4CE
Biglow is in johnson valley right now but i know he has a welder...portable
It's your weld. Don't you think you can help me out...
Old Jan 19, 2014 | 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Ssdudrew
It's your weld. Don't you think you can help me out...
Phones plugged in it died....just got home.

Definently need to figure out what part is causing the death wobble or it will continue to break stuff...

Welds weren't the issue death wobble is, it can be nasty and will take stuff out....
The bent rim, bearings, worn arm bushings, ovaled out frame side tracbar mount, recheck for bearing play, ...

The pulsing and fact it hops 45mph when braking and the feel in wheel and pedal would make me look to rotors as well..a culmination of things can happen and after a few times can loosen other stuff as well...
The truss and tracbar are definently not the culprit, my guess is it was there and got aggitated o c's the front end got stiffened up...I can't think how a truss would effect it being its a ridgid piece and death wobble is slop somewhere....

And yeah I can see tracbar bracket taking a beating when the front gets wobbling I've seen brackets ripped off...death wobble can and is a beast...

Either way welds weren't the issue I will call mike and give him some stuff to address and look at ....its there somewhere and being overlooked....so we will add so e extra eyes and loo, harder.
it was good chatting with you and let's iron out the death wobble..
Old Jan 19, 2014 | 09:50 PM
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No offense, but a proper weld will not break. The metal around will tear first. Least you can do is own up to it.
Old Jan 19, 2014 | 09:52 PM
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Edit: if it is the weld that broke, OP doesn't say that the weld broke just that the bracket did.
Old Jan 20, 2014 | 02:46 AM
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Originally Posted by wecf
No offense, but a proper weld will not break. The metal around will tear first. Least you can do is own up to it.
Yes I'm aware of that, lol
Welds are usually stronger than the metal its attached to. I've seen track bar brackets rip clean off from death wobble or hard hits. Big lows track bar ripped off at welds from abuse. I welded it back up I didnt do those original welds but the shear load removed it pretty damn clean.

Without knowing circumstances to this don't ask me to own up to this. Thanks for the input but there's ALOT more t it then thks...this happened because of other issues.
A tire doesn't go flat because it just lost air its a result of something else.

Death wobble will tear some stuff up, just to much energy going on that things won't take the beating especially when its been several cases of it.

As a foot note I'm more than qualified to find d a failure in welds, metal as well as discontinuities Internal fractures, colum load failures, cyclic failures, meta. Degradation of material thickness in pipes from friction ie ultrasonic pipeline inspection vka ulltrasonic etc.) NDT level II based on CWI (ultrasonic, magparticle' eddy, radiography, visual, dye etc)

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Old Jan 20, 2014 | 06:27 AM
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Can we get pics of the damage?

I have a briefcase welder and can come down, just want to make sure nothing else is needed.


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Old Jan 21, 2014 | 09:42 AM
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Soooo, no pictures of the broken part?
Old Jan 21, 2014 | 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Captain Obvious
Soooo, no pictures of the broken part?
I'm also curious what it looks like


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