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Better late then never Ftoy 2008 rebuild
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<blockquote data-quote="Pook" data-source="post: 1066605" data-attributes="member: 16813"><p>So one of the things that held me up. I bought a summit racing generic small aluminum rad, I needed to change the radiator tubes, because they were in the opposite corners of where I needed them, plus I need to clear the winch and steering box. I cut the tube and drilled/dremel'd the rad for the new tubes.</p><p></p><p>I'm not setup for tig welding at my shop, so I went to a friends shop who tig welds all the time. He had just sold his old tig setup and bought a new Miller inverter style welder, no biggee he's been tig welding aluminum for years. He put on a brand new bottle of Argon on, and we get to it. Well the damn thing wouldn't weld, and when it did it was dirty as hell. We mess around and grind out, and re clean the tubes and radiator. Try again, still nasty and not taking. He doesn't know why its not working, so we call up a friend who's welding instructor at BCIT. He calls me when he's from work and I head on over. He had run out of Argon and brought home a new bottle. So we get setup, reclean and grind out the crap welds. Damn thing welds a bit better but still dirty and porous. So he's pissed off. We try a bunch of other scraps of aluminum and they are better but still not right. He thinks its the gas. Sure enough my other friend and him both buy gas from the same supplier. He wants to make sure thats what it is, and I need to get it welded so we head off to BCIT, Its after 10:00pm now and all the students have gone home so we got the shop to ourselves. Regrind out the old welds, clean it all up and sure enough welds right up. I get back home around 12:30 am. Pretty much took my whole afternoon and night. At least they are welded now.</p><p></p><p>Its a tight fit.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pook, post: 1066605, member: 16813"] So one of the things that held me up. I bought a summit racing generic small aluminum rad, I needed to change the radiator tubes, because they were in the opposite corners of where I needed them, plus I need to clear the winch and steering box. I cut the tube and drilled/dremel'd the rad for the new tubes. I'm not setup for tig welding at my shop, so I went to a friends shop who tig welds all the time. He had just sold his old tig setup and bought a new Miller inverter style welder, no biggee he's been tig welding aluminum for years. He put on a brand new bottle of Argon on, and we get to it. Well the damn thing wouldn't weld, and when it did it was dirty as hell. We mess around and grind out, and re clean the tubes and radiator. Try again, still nasty and not taking. He doesn't know why its not working, so we call up a friend who's welding instructor at BCIT. He calls me when he's from work and I head on over. He had run out of Argon and brought home a new bottle. So we get setup, reclean and grind out the crap welds. Damn thing welds a bit better but still dirty and porous. So he's pissed off. We try a bunch of other scraps of aluminum and they are better but still not right. He thinks its the gas. Sure enough my other friend and him both buy gas from the same supplier. He wants to make sure thats what it is, and I need to get it welded so we head off to BCIT, Its after 10:00pm now and all the students have gone home so we got the shop to ourselves. Regrind out the old welds, clean it all up and sure enough welds right up. I get back home around 12:30 am. Pretty much took my whole afternoon and night. At least they are welded now. Its a tight fit. [/QUOTE]
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