[Project] Living up to my username

[Wicked Mayhem]

Quote: Originally Posted by Slammed03

how come the notch sticks below the frame a little??? i thought the sd s10 notch was suppost to match the bottom of the frame rails....or is it cause you had to move it back a inch? those welds are nice tho!

you dont have to use the full notch when you put it in.. lol

[NickZigaitis]

Not bad at all. Seams like you're putting some good thought into this thing. Welds on the notch came out great.

Bust out a angle grinder and flap disk and grind those welds on the top cap of the notch smooth. Strength in the notch is from the side and bottom pieces, not the top filler piece. Go ahead and nail it while you can.

[mister880]

looks very nice!! can't wait to see it complete. i'm gonna hopefully lay my front out this winter.

[xtucking22s]

Quote: Originally Posted by Slammed03

how come the notch sticks below the frame a little??? i thought the sd s10 notch was suppost to match the bottom of the frame rails....or is it cause you had to move it back a inch? those welds are nice tho!

its partially because I moved it back 1 or 1 1/4" and also because nothing is ever perfect haha. But we wanted the notch level, that was the main priority so thats what we were going off of. that bottom piece will get trimmed off tonight

Quote: Originally Posted by NickZigaitis

Not bad at all. Seams like you're putting some good thought into this thing. Welds on the notch came out great.

Bust out a angle grinder and flap disk and grind those welds on the top cap of the notch smooth. Strength in the notch is from the side and bottom pieces, not the top filler piece. Go ahead and nail it while you can.

yup, thanks. And I was planning on using my flap disk on it allready

And thanks everyone for the compliments! its going at a nice slow and steady pace, and going exactly as I want it to so Im happy.

[LOPHAT]

Looking good man!...ahhh you still haven't covered that nice powdercoated stuff with anything....i'm waiting!

DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER TONIGHT YOUNG MAN!

[xtucking22s]

Quote: Originally Posted by LOPHAT

Looking good man!...ahhh you still haven't covered that nice powdercoated stuff with anything....i'm waiting!

DON'T MAKE ME COME OVER TONIGHT YOUNG MAN!

this doesnt look covered to you? lol

[LOPHAT]

...lol, not the truck the nice shiny powdercoated stuff from SD. Wrap it up with something, tape, anything, so you don't scratch it.

I posted my consern a while back, you probably missed it, no worries, i'm only clownin'. I just don't want to see it gettin scratched on you. I have done it before, by mistake by dropping a wrench, or something stupid like that.

Keep up the good fight!

[xtucking22s]

lol, dude im so confused...in the picture 2 posts above, do you see any blue at all?!?! cuz i dont...its all covered. tell me what i didnt cover? lol

[mister880]

i think he meant taping up all your link bars til the time of completion. so you don't accidently scratch them putting everything back on.

[mister880]

Quote: Originally Posted by xtucking22s

this doesnt look covered to you? lol

oh but yes i see one tiny little blue spot that's not covered in the middle..

[xtucking22s]

oh ok, i gotcha now. well ill just be very carefull (and maybe ill tape them up when i get home )

[mister880]

you can never be TO careful!

[LOPHAT]

There you go man!!!

I'm not the best with the wordage, mister880 said it better than I did. Too much handlng and the stuff eventually gets scuffed.

[LOPHAT]

keep it all wrapped up till you are done, done , done.

[Slammed83Mazda]

Quote: Originally Posted by LOPHAT

keep it all wrapped up till you are done, done , done.

did you ever put a crossmember in after this pic so the bag plates wont push up and eventually break? Im not trying to start anything but I had the same problem.

[LOPHAT]

ya, that was just a pic from when I was mocking up the bag plates, the notch wasn't even welded up fully then.

This was a pic from when I started priming everything...it's a SD bridge kit, I had to put it in like that or the dif cover bracket would hit the crossmember when it layed out...thx for looking out though...that's why I like this forum.

[xtucking22s]

allright, unfortunatly the tank of gas ran out in the middle of welding stuff....so we are delayed again until thursday night. The next two days eric and myself are both busy and he needs to get a refill on his tank, so ya...Thursday night we should be finally done with this welding. so here are abunch of pics....the more pics i post the more work it looks like we actually got done lol, but in reality we worked 2 hours....and then ran out of gas
frame finally cut


proud owner right there...hackin away at the frame




the bottom piece was crazy wider then the top piece, i dont really understand why this is done, and I think it looks like shit when the pieces make a little hat to the notch, eric felt the same way so he trimmed it down to make this notch look real good and strong




I used a flap disk wheel on my grinder and cleaned up the welds a little. Eric warned me not to do to much cuz then your grinding away the strenght of the weld, so i only did what was needed to smooth it out




I put a "pull string" in the notches so i can later run whatever i want threw the notches. Its just some 16 gauge wire, i used this because i figured when welding in the last piece of the notch it wouldnt melt like actual string would, i figured the red jacket would melt and i would still have the copper conductor to pull but somehow the insulating didnt melt, i was suprised


I trimmed down the shock bar, cut off 2.5" on each end to make it fit between the notches. We thought about drilling a hole in the notch and sticking it in there then welding it up but since its only a shock bar we felt it would be plenty strong just welded to the outsides of the notches. if it was a BOA setup we might have done it the other way, but this is fine. so ya this is what was cut off

[s10cyncrvr]

They have those bottom caps wider so that you can do a vertical up fillet weld on them. It's an easier weld then doing the vertical-up/overhead weld like you have there. As long as the welder is skilled, they will work either way. It does look cleaner with them trimmed flush.

Also hang onto one those pieces of tubing you cut off, they are excellant for pressing out the superpivots if you would ever need to.

[xtucking22s]

ya, i figured the notch is like that to give people a certain welding point, but i dunno it looks so dumb haha, and ya, my welder has his shit together, hes got skills

[optikal]

yea the notches def aren't goin anywhere. i really don't like the 8 piece step notches that much as it is, and it looks even worse when nothing is trimmed. i don't love welding overhead but i can do it and this is gonna be a show truck (so adam tells me, haha) so i'm tryin to do it as clean as i can.

[xtucking22s]

Quote: Originally Posted by optikal

this is gonna be a show truck (so adam tells me, haha) so i'm tryin to do it as clean as i can.

gonna be a show truck? excuse me? lol, it has been a show truck...for about 2 years now...i dont have all the goofy shit like 8 tvs in there for my practical cinematic viewing pleasure.

And the notch is turning out very very pretty. just as good as the best work ive ever seen done with these 8 piece notches.

[optikal]

sorry, i meant to say "feature truck" lol

[xtucking22s]

hahaha, there ya go

[optikal]

i'd really like to see the notches and the rest of the frame and all the welds smoothed out like this s10 i did awhile back....

[optikal]

maybe when i get adams truck done i can get back on the rocker layin nissan

[kaczarollision]

i see a titty calendar

[optikal]

haha yea courtesy of my paint supplier my wife isn't crazy about it but hey it's my shop

[xtucking22s]

haha eric picture whoring lol, its cool. and hey man ill smooth them welds down perfectly smooth if ya let me...u said not to do it too much...but hey i got no problem smoothing em out some more. I remember seeing that truck u did a while back on ur site(when u had a website)

And no....u dont need to work on your daily driver, your fine without a single working driveable car of your own lol. (the point of a daily driver is to drive it and leave it stock eric....not be working on both your cars at the same time haha)

[kaczarollision]

yea, i own a bodyshop too, hence my username minus a letter 'cause i'm an idiot. we have those calendars in the most random places

[Slammed83Mazda]

Quote: Originally Posted by LOPHAT

ya, that was just a pic from when I was mocking up the bag plates, the notch wasn't even welded up fully then.

This was a pic from when I started priming everything...it's a SD bridge kit, I had to put it in like that or the dif cover bracket would hit the crossmember when it layed out...thx for looking out though...that's why I like this forum.

ya sorry to whore the thread, but its nice to see people reply back with class and not get all e-pimp and shit about looks good man.

[kovz34]

lookin real good adam. nice progress.

ps- good idea putting the pull through wire in the notch to run your taillight wires and stuff. takes a real EE to come up with good ideas like that (not melting the conductor, haha)