What is this part called and is there a replacement available, or am I going to have to patch up the old one? I'm about to pressure wash and sandblast this overweight piece of garbage, so I already know that the rot will be worse when I'm done.
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Its done. By the time you blast it and clean it back to solid metal you have nothing left to weld to.
The perch isnt the worst part of it, though it is really bad.
The hole in the axle tube is rotted from the inside.
That tube keeps the wheel bearing in place and keeps the wheel and the brakes and everything else attached to the truck.
If that axle tube breaks while you are driving everything will shred off of the back of that truck.
Wheel, tire, brake caliper all of it.
It will pop the axle right out of thd diff and spin you while it tears the truck apart.
And dont forget about what happens to the innocent victim that gets hit by your random flying wheel, hub, brake ,axle assembly when it shreds itself and starts bouncing down the road.
All while you are pinballing through traffic on three wheels.
Dont **** around with something like this.
If we drive old vehicles we have a responsibily to make sure that they are not a danger to our famiies or to other people.
That is a part of what we do.
That is the very basis of car culture and the very basis of hot rodding and modding a car.
At least it used to be.
Anything else is dangerious hillbilly dont give a **** tractor welding.
Maybe you can hack that back together.
But are you readdy to deal with the life altering penalty if you are wrong?
That is the question.
In racing I know that I am pushing to go faster.
More prop, less wing, More air under the boat, too much air less wing different prop.
Think ill start smoking again.
That is a part of racing anything.
But That is a well thought out risk.
And nothing is half assed.
But these farmer weld knuclekheads
think its okay for you to crap weld that and run it down the freeway.
It is not.
In America we have tracks where you can just show up and pretty much run any piece of garbage you have.
Which is really fun.
Buy a helmet, buy a **** wagon and run it.
We play that game on the track.
Only morons who dont understand how ****** they will be if they wreck play that game on the public roads.