High Quality Work by an "unknown" Builder!

ive never meet this guy before, only briefly talked to him on AIM, but the way he seems to be horrible. this is all from a third person view, but really, how many times is this guy gonna screw stuff up before someone gets hurt?
 
Geez, all these welding experts knocking his work, but no one is offering any tips for him to do it better next time. :shaking:
 
dirty deeds said:
Geez, all these welding experts knocking his work, but no one is offering any tips for him to do it better next time. :shaking:
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I think a lot of people offered tips.:rolleyes:
Did you not rear my post????????
MR. GADGET said:
Learn to weld or pay to have it done by someone that knows what they are doing.
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Think that covers it!!!!!!!!:popcorn: :lol:
 
i think everybody's missing the part where I said the driveshaft had been done as a quick patch and we were gonna redo it but forgot about it and went to the big daddy thing and it broke just like i thought it would.

New driveshafts already done, 1/4 tube welded directly to the yoke on both sides grinded smooth then welded up with a hobart 175 all the way up on the highest level -> 4

I will be extremly surprised if it breaks again.
 
78broncoboy said:
ive never meet this guy before, only briefly talked to him on AIM, but the way he seems to be horrible. this is all from a third person view, but really, how many times is this guy gonna screw stuff up before someone gets hurt?
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he isnt horrible at all, the mistake with the blazer was my fault since its my truck. i should have double checked that... ricky is one of the hardest working people i know and has done so much work that yes somethings do mess up but there are so many rigs out there ricky has modded but you dont hear about them in these pages as much... you wanna know why? because they run and dont break... as long as i've known ricky only 2 things went wrong.. when HE GOT REAR ENDED and that broke his hitch.. then i pressured him into a quick fix so i could make it home to kenny concert... so in reality neither were rickys fault... if he had never been rear ended his hitch wouldnt have broken so you really need to back off and learn your facts before you talk crap about someone who is really good and what he does and if he does mess up ( no one is prefect) he learns and becomes even better...

so really i mean this with out a smile :flipoff2:
 
jrraw23 said:
i think everybody's missing the part where I said the driveshaft had been done as a quick patch and we were gonna redo it but forgot about it and went to the big daddy thing and it broke just like i thought it would.
New driveshafts already done, 1/4 tube welded directly to the yoke on both sides grinded smooth then welded up with a hobart 175 all the way up on the highest level -> 4
I will be extremly surprised if it breaks again.
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Dude, I am not gonna beat you up for the mistake. I will make the suggestion to take your driveshafts to a professional and have them taken care of. If the shaft is not balanced properly you will eventually beat a pinion bearing or t-case bearing to death with the vibration. I have had a driveshaft break on me because of incorrect pinion angle and a weak driveshaft on a drag car. It took out the right rear tire at 105 mph. Getting a handle on that was not fun. I could have easily taken it into a guard rail. Don't mess around with a rear driveshaft. Its worth paying a pro to do it properly. :)
 
bladelazerblazer said:
if he had never been rear ended his hitch wouldnt have broken so you really need to back off and learn your facts before you talk crap about someone who is really good and what he does and if he does mess up ( no one is prefect) he learns and becomes even better...
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Yes, but what YOU'RE forgetting is that had he NOT made the horrible mistake of allowing someone towing a trailer without trailer brakes to follow him, he would NOT have gotten rear-ended in the first place (and had they both had trailer brakes, the incident would not have been an incident at all). And as was said many, many times, it had a high probability of being MUCH worse.

The DS was poor welding, period. Whether or not it was "temporary", if you're gonna do it, do it right. This is just my opinion, but from the photos, it wasn't a temporary job that failed, it was just a bad weld..

I mean, if something was just "welded on there temporarily to get it off the trailer", why would he have taken the time to grind the weld smooth? I don't polish up temporary/tack welds that I've done for mock-up, nor does ANYONE I've ever met..

This is not bagging on him, he's learning... Just like we used to bag on Taco747 for doing work and CHARGING for it before he should have.. It's just not a good idea to learn on vital parts (like frames, and parts that can easily damage other parts if they break)
 
Rich said:
Yes, but what YOU'RE forgetting is that had he NOT made the horrible mistake of allowing someone towing a trailer without trailer brakes to follow him, he would NOT have gotten rear-ended in the first place (and had they both had trailer brakes, the incident would not have been an incident at all). And as was said many, many times, it had a high probability of being MUCH worse.
The DS was poor welding, period. Whether or not it was "temporary", if you're gonna do it, do it right. This is just my opinion, but from the photos, it wasn't a temporary job that failed, it was just a bad weld..
I mean, if something was just "welded on there temporarily to get it off the trailer", why would he have taken the time to grind the weld smooth? I don't polish up temporary/tack welds that I've done for mock-up, nor does ANYONE I've ever met..
This is not bagging on him, he's learning... Just like we used to bag on Taco747 for doing work and CHARGING for it before he should have.. It's just not a good idea to learn on vital parts (like frames, and parts that can easily damage other parts if they break)
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thats exactly what i was talking about. you should never pull a trailer with a 1/2 ton truck, never use a huge drop hitch, never not use a trailer brake, never let your buddy tail gate you while both of you have trailers etc etc.

i understand learning, but do it on something that wont endanger other people. weld on your little 5 horsepower gocart frame, or make a rake to hold firewood etc. dont weld on a driveshaft or anything like that when you dont know what your doing.
 
hey man, your weld broke, no one got hurt and you learned from it...everyone has to start somewhere but a bit of advise

if you ever have to weld metal a little to thick for the welder, just grind the two butt joints and fourty-five degree angles to make the metal a little thiner

then when u weld it, it won't need as much heat to get your bead deep in the the metal and your weld will feel up the gap created and be just as strong as new...if not better

advise from one redneck engineer to another...guess i've learned to make due with the eqipment i have on hand
 
Ricky from what I have seen is a stand up guy who will not think twice before helping some one out. Bash him all you want, but I will be the first to say he takes it much better than most would on this board. Many times Rick has transfered stuff for one guy or another, including for me. As a matter of fact that day at the BDOR event, he got some stuff from me to take to someone else. I have not seen too many people here that has as much desire to learn something. His mind is always spinning about one thing or another. Reminds me a lot of my own son. Full of ideas, full of wants, full of energy, and a lot of the time full of shit, but what he lacks most is experience. And from what I have seen he is working on that. Remember when you bash back to the days when you were not so smart yourself. I know as I grew up I made a lot of mistakes, and learned from them. I think he is too. I mean, the Z71 does sit lower now. That tells me he has learned something. And from what I have seen he does use some of the stuff he is told about here. As far as towing with a half ton, many do it, There are more reasons to not do it than there is to do it. I did. I had to, if I wanted to get my rig to the trail. I have trailer brakes because I learned how hard it is to stop without them. I have them on both axles. I towed with my J truck for many years without incident. You do have to adjust your driving style. Not everyone has or can afford a big tow rig.
ah heck it's Thanksgiving. Hope all have had a good one.
 
jrraw23 said:
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good icon man, good thoughts.

and about the tow rig, im not saying go out and buy a F-350 with a 7.3 powerstroke chipped to put out 850 ft-lbs. a decent 3/4 ton would do just fine, with maybe a trailer package and stiffer rear springs. i know my old F-250 would pull just about anything you wanted, and i didnt buy or sell it for over a thousand.
 
Hey I dont know if that is the driveshaft that was on it when you guys bought it from me, but if it is that is a driveshaft off a pickup that I had shortened at Fleetpride. It looked like a good weld to me when I looked at it but I guess it wasn't. :/
 
nah the weld that broke was mine, not the origional welds, however I do think that the driveshaft was the cause of the tranny cracking back when you had it. The driveshaft was way to long the way it was and I think everytime you would hit a bump or something it was bottoming out in the slip part of the transfer case and causing shock over and over again to that t/case and tranny. I don't know if I told you but we ended up having to replace both the tcase as well as the tranny because both were grenaded.
 
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