I went to an actual speed shop that works on Mustangs to get my quote. My trust level for who I hand my car off to is extremely low, so that one shop was selected after months of research and in-person interviews of former customers and employees.
I bought a MIG from Eastwood and practiced A LOT. I did have some very limited exposure to welding years ago, so it wasn’t completely new to me.Can an amateur do it with a cheap Harbor Freight welder. Somebody that has never welded
Upside down welding is supposed to be the hardest... Maybe that was more of a stick weld problem?? I have seen the exhaust guys buzz around the pipe with a mig and they make it look awfully easy .......Can an amateur do it with a cheap Harbor Freight welder. Somebody that has never welded
all good! i appreciate the discussion!I bought a MIG from Eastwood and practiced A LOT. I did have some very limited exposure to welding years ago, so it wasn’t completely new to me.
My first project was rear sections of floor pans. Then I tackled the SFC. I’m pretty confident that they are one there good, although the welds are not the prettiest!
Sorry @derek1993 for getting off track! Back to you!
Hey guys.....I have been trying to find someone to weld on my MM full length connectors here in McDonough, GA. I can't find anybody willing to do the welding. Is it normally a muffler shop that will do it? I need to find somebody but have been rejected a bunch of times now. I didn't think it would be this hard to find someone. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ken
Thank you Kurt. I will check them out! I am fairly new to the area so still getting used to things. Won't be living here too much longer though. Trying to head south toward the beaches!!! I am totally stripping this car down but have tried to leave enough to be driveable. I might be past that point now though. Will have to see if it will still start and enough stuff to work to avoid a ticket. The dash is gone already but I could toss a instrument cluster in.
Thanks again for the info,
Ken
IMO, structural is NOT where you start welding. I have a welder and i've done some welding, maybe some people pick up the skill fairly easy, but you still need to be able to assess what is a quality weld and what is not. Just because it sticks together doesn't mean it's right. I'm surely no expert and i don't personally feel like i'm the guy at this point to do subs (i do have others to do it free of cost, which may hinder my learning).
And while i've seen people set the carpet on fire doing jacking rails, i've never seen it on subs.
100% on all that!I‘d say that it’s not as easy as everybody thinks it is. And no overhead welding job on galvanized steel that is intended as a structural reinforcement should be a first time welding experiment.
And if sht-Welding in a SF connector just to get it stuck in place is the standard, you may as well bolt it in.
Firstly You’re laying on your side or back having to brace the welding gun with the hand/arm that that you need to help hold you up, and the higher you get the car in the air, the more you need to hold yourself up. It’s dirty, galvanized metal, which pops, and spatters, with occasional blobs of molten metal that “drip”, then hit either you laying directly underneath, or hit the ground, and then pop up and hit you.
You will get burned.
Regardless of how empty the interior is, the factory sound deadening is also just as likely to light up. Or at the very least, smoke the interior up real good.
A weld doesn’t have to be pretty to have good integrity, but i’ve seen plenty of pictures of welded in SF connectors that are not only Not pretty, but are also highly suspect.
id think that a gutted interior project with a full exhaust in the way, a transmission hanging down in the middle ( cause you have to get on both sides of the SF) and 30 years worth of grease and crud to clean off wold be worth at least 200 bucks if somebody was paying to have it done.