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andysleds

andysleds

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Sorry Ricky Gotta post them!!

Before
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During

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After

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And he walks away with Pride.......

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Backs blazer off trailer with like z-71 tow rig
like lines up to mud
gets about like 1/3 of the way and breaks rear d-shaft at weld
after a while, hits mud a few more times in front wheel drive-with like alot of speed.
Gets like major stuckness every time.
 
LOL....I guess the welds broke on the drive shaft. :D Looks like a clean break!
 
Ricky brought it up to me, since it's well known I have a welder. It's a thin wall tube. Looked like it had been sawed just before the yoke, and welded back. Must have been a cold weld, it was pretty clean break. I suggested a different drive shaft. Anyway, he wasn't through playing, so they hit it in Front wheel drive. Several attempts. All stuck. Jim pulled him out.
 
Sad thing is, he made it farther later in front wheel drive.
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Like you mean like one wheel drive, like open diff in the like front still like totally beasted the like hole.

Sorry Ricky Gotta post them!!
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Dude Im excited i got my own post with fully narrorated blow by blow shots :driver:

yea driveshaft broke where I had welded it, gives me an excuse to make a 1/4 thick driveshaft instead of trying to reuse the stock shaft like that was.

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Shoot sans rear driveshaft we still had a blast, once again props to Big Daddy!!!

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yea driveshaft broke where I had welded it, gives me an excuse to make a 1/4 thick driveshaft instead of trying to reuse the stock shaft like that was.
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the only question is if you couldnt make a weld penetrate that thin wall stuff, as evidenced by it breaking off right at the weld, how do you plan on properly welding a .25 in tube shaft?
 
CYJKrawler said:
Quote: jrraw23 = "As far as penetration, I think I need a little more practice on that but I'm getting close." :)
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Nah the reason it broke was that was the stock shaft. I had cut it and re welded it back together to shorten it for the 14 bolt. What i did was weld tube to tube. Thats why it brokethe stock tube was to skinny and the tube to tube weld wasnt strong enough. I should have welded the tube directly to the yoke when i shortened it. Penetration wasn't really the issue just improper driveshaft shortening technique :rolleyes:
 
jrraw23 said:
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that was the stock shaft. I had cut it and re welded it back together to shorten it for the 14 bolt. What i did was weld tube to tube. I should have welded the tube directly to the yoke when i shortened it. Penetration wasn't really the issue just improper driveshaft shortening technique :rolleyes:
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The issue is YOU trying to take the FAST and CHEAP way out.

Yer gonna kill somebody one day. You better hope to god it isn't anyone from my family !

Kevin
 
jrraw23 said:
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Nah the reason it broke was that was the stock shaft. I had cut it and re welded it back together to shorten it for the 14 bolt. What i did was weld tube to tube. Thats why it brokethe stock tube was to skinny and the tube to tube weld wasnt strong enough. I should have welded the tube directly to the yoke when i shortened it. Penetration wasn't really the issue just improper driveshaft shortening technique :rolleyes:
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Hate to say it bub, but weld penetration was the problem
If there had been adequate penetration, you would not have had such a clean break. Hence what I said earlier, it was a cold weld. you only penetrated the outside of the metal.
 
upnover said:
Hate to say it bub, but weld penetration was the problem
If there had been adequate penetration, you would not have had such a clean break. Hence what I said earlier, it was a cold weld. you only penetrated the outside of the metal.
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Aight I'll just turn the heat up more next time, I figured it broke so clean cause after I welded it I grinded it down to where the shaft was smooth and you couldn't tell that it had been welded, which also probably grinded away most of the strength the weld did have, also a bad idea in retrospect :shaking: .

Honestly back when we welded the shaft up like that we were trying to get a quick fix for him to get the blazer home, I knew it probbaly was not gonna hold and I told him that but we did it so he could get it home with the full intention of remaking the driveshaft later on then we both totally forgot about the driveshaft not being done :shaking:

Oh well thats what the test runs are for figurin out what you missed/did wrong so you can fix it.
 
I thought yall put on a pretty good show with it either way. You should have taken the Z71 through it... I bet your 10" drop hitch ball would have made a good recovery point. :flipoff2:
 
Holy crap how'd you dig that page up? i havnt looked at that cardomain page for like almost a year now, lol but nah the blazer's stuckness was nothing compared to the worst stuckness ever :driver:

Shoot runnin a 4" drop hitch now, don't think it could apply enough leverage on the frame to yank me out if i were to go into the pit :flipoff2:

But heck yea man, nobody else would go throu the mud after they redug it except those two jeeps (props to them!) all them dang rockkrawler yuppies were afraid they'd sling mud on themselfs :flipoff2:

We figured heck, who cares if we only got one front wheel turnin, if we hit it fast enough it'll go somewhere!!! :driver: :driver: :driver:
 
if i was there i would have welded it for u with some batteries and cables ... not left u stranded uhhhh.hh
 
Tube was pretty thin, I had the RW with me, but none of my patch pieces, batteries, grinders and so on. Unfortunately stuff that thin is not the easiest thing to weld with a ready welder.
 
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