4speedfunk
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Tell me about it. I snapped a sway-bar bolt off in the hole and had to use an easy-out extractor on it.
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New Axle
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MTUH3
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I broke 3 of the 4 sway bar bolts, Had to cut out all the spring bolts, hard to replace the frame bushing because the bolts rusted in it, cut off the shock bolts because they were rusted and bent, drillout out all 4 shock bolts cause the speed nuts snapped....
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Im glad I dont deal with rust...I just deal with a ton of other problems being in CA. lol...
I ran mine under the U bolt plates my concern was the bumpstop catching one. Once you throw bumpstop plates on there that should take care of that issue though.
Clean welds by the way! I welded my perches on under the truck...I want to pull the axle and reweld everything on it. I have my brothers JK dana44 on stands and the quality of welds is so much better when its on stands compared to being under the truck with all the other factors of bad position crap in the way like u bolts etc.
I ran mine under the U bolt plates my concern was the bumpstop catching one. Once you throw bumpstop plates on there that should take care of that issue though.
Clean welds by the way! I welded my perches on under the truck...I want to pull the axle and reweld everything on it. I have my brothers JK dana44 on stands and the quality of welds is so much better when its on stands compared to being under the truck with all the other factors of bad position crap in the way like u bolts etc.
MTUH3
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Thanks, I am learning my lessons and made sure I ran some practice welds on some old hanger pieces and 1/4" scrap I had laying around. I didn't have good leather sleeves, and it was too warm for my jacket. I have a few red dots on my arms and stomach from welding on the hangers. One slag spark managed to go past my helmet, hit the frame behind me and bounce into my ear. THAT HURT!
4speedfunk
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Glad I'm not the only one! - LOL. You can actually see my welding improve over the course of my project! My early welds were just awful...but by the time I was done with the SAS, I was laying down some sweet ones. I got some coaching from a few of the THORparts production welders, and that helped me quite a bit. I'm still along way from that caliber, and I don't think its possible for me to get that good unless I weld for eight hours a day...EVERY day, like they do.
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Im kinda pist I did the SOA before the I did my brothers JK D44 build up...My welds are 10000x better on the JK axle welds then on mine. Its all practice though, as projects go along I can see improvements. If only I could 8 hrs a day for a month Im sure I would be set then.