I do know that I drive torque, while listening to my friends prattle on about horsepower.
Your metal is too thin. The vibrations are work hardening it also, you are welding too hot and too fast. All these small things are combining to make it fail. After you weld a piece going to a high vibration area, you need to heat the part, then let it slowly cool. In our shop we have an annealing oven, and we heat the part up (if wifey doesn't mind I'd max it out in the oven) then shut the oven off and let it cool overnight in the oven. This will relieve the molecular stress and it shouldn't work harden.
...BTW your Bieber avatar is awesome.-Malone
for our late model dirt track stuff we have taken it to 1600...I don't know if it would work with less, but it works there so we keep doing it.
sounds like a shifter fork issue
I missed this thread and I wanted to see how the CV are holding up?
Last night I finished installing the half shafts with the replaced CV. When I removed the CV, in the boot there was a spacer ring for the spline. I was guessing it was below the CV, but I could not get it to properly go there, so I put it on top. Anyone have experience with this?
Quote from: arb on October 08, 2009, 12:54:12 pmLast night I finished installing the half shafts with the replaced CV. When I removed the CV, in the boot there was a spacer ring for the spline. I was guessing it was below the CV, but I could not get it to properly go there, so I put it on top. Anyone have experience with this?I had this happen only when using new washers. I always end up reusing the old ones. With the CV on the shaft I couldn't get the circlip on even by hammering on with a flathead screwdriver (the circlip not the CV).