1:52 pm
January 12, 2007
I wanted to give a thumbs up to IH Only in Loomis again. I had them weld my sway bar brackets on last week. He quoted me a half hour labor and ended up spending an hour on it and adding some nice gussets (which he had in stock) for reinforcements, and he stuck to his original quote.
He also gave me a bunch of DOM in the right size for building a drive line if I need to at the Hammers.
If you need welding or fab work done, they do AWESOME work.
6:00 am
The Rubicon Express track-bar mounting bracket you see was cracked in half on the drivers side. Here are pictures after IH Only rewelded, reinforced, and gusetted it. I also had him add a little metal to the lower mounting point as see in the last couple of pics.
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4:15 pm
Looks beefy, but do they typically only crack at the frame? Why not beef up the whole bracket instead of only the top couple of inches? There's less mechanical advantage as you move away from the frame, but it looks like you may have just moved the weak point. Of course, I haven't spent much time looking at the connection so I may be picturing it wrong in my mind. :dunno:
12:50 am
July 15, 2005
See all that rust in you bottom picture. That is where cracks and weak spots start. People laugh when I paint my underside, but that helps stop corrosion. The only time I have broken brackets, I could trace the break back to an unpainted area that was rusted.
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1:51 am
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July 10, 2003
"RobD" wrote: People laugh when I paint my underside, but that helps stop corrosion. The only time I have broken brackets, I could trace the break back to an unpainted area that was rusted.
I just stopped washing my Jeep all together. Dirt is a better protectant than paint. I break less than you
I used to wheel a lot. . .
3:05 am
July 15, 2005
"1tom2go" wrote: what kind of paint? Do you prep it first?
I just use a semi flat black Rust-Oleum...No prep other then making sure it is clean first and not painting over dirt.
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