TFS: Custom 4 Links Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- Continuing on with an upper link for the '61 Caddy. In this episode, Justin runs throught the jig making procedures and welding of a custom tubular upper control arm style 4 link (sometimes known as a trianglulated, or triangle link)
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So I goofed... err... the software goofed.... all that fancy animation was supposed to be on the pic of the control arm on the chassis, but it somehow popped up on the pic of me welding. Bummer. Too many people have seen the vid for me to change it at this point, so, enjoy. I'm just gonna kick back and wait for the "you suck at editing" comments. Thanks for all the continued support! -Justin
Wait, This isn't the editication series ? Darn I watched the wrong video.....again
Are you going to add the bag mount to this arm?
You suck at editing.
👍HEY IT’SYOUR SHOW MAN🐓🐓🐓
You suck at editing, but not for the reason you think.
You need to shut the mic off and get the meth head motor mouth under control.
That's called voice over. It's not editing.
Justin if all my teachers / instructors / professors were clear, precise, cared, & knowledgeable as you are I would have ACED all of my classes / education. I will be using every lesson learned from you. Again thank you, you're AMAZING, skilled fabricator & teacher. Another awesome video.
You should consider being a professional teacher / instructor.
You are not a fabricator, You are A Artist
I am by no means a fabricator (just beginning and living vicariously through your channel). However, I am absolutely blown away by your skill and ability to talk through your processes. When I make it out to your city I would be honored to stop in your shop.
This channel is pure gold for new people starting in fab work
I think we've all forgotten that we took the hood off at least once! There were a lot of great tips in this one, thanks for retaining all the detail, Justin!
Auto-darkening helmet... I’ve flashed my eyes a few times just expecting it to dim but it’s off or up and I forgot...
That’s right, build it right, build it tight. Amazing skills my brotha, when the hood drops the bullshit stops. For me, the world silences as the sound of the gas flow rolls, being mesmerized by the puddle. It’s really the only time I’m truly free. Keeping up the great working AMAZING BLAZE.
Great job! These look like the ones I bought from the Mopar guys for my 69 Dart Drag car. It is really nice to watch you make up parts that I end up going out to buy these days. In the past, we had to make everything from scratch as you do. Only the quality we produced wasn't even close to yours. You really do good work! Like a guy below said "I learn so much from watching your videos"
Mark Moore
I’m no where near his level and don’t even TiG but his vids have raised my fab quality big time.
You can add another piece of tubing over the bending machine lever for added leverage thus making it somewhat easier to bend. Great work answers all the questions one might have , well at least for me .
Justin, love watching your videos. You have a simple yet methodical approach to all your projects. Very educational for people wanting to fabricate their own projects. Keep up the great work you are doing.
Machine a brass slug to press into the uniball cup while you weld it up, helps to keep it from distorting
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I love your work. Finally someone who has high standards.
I really like the way you present what you are doing. Easy to learn watching you work. Great job. I've also narrowed my 8.8 for my ranger from your video as well. I'm working on the four links now and you are not kidding about the math involved to get it right. Anyway I like your series of videos that you have I've been going through several from awhile back and I learn something from every one I watch. Have a good day and Merry Christmas to you and yours. Thanks again.
A wonderful piece of iron. It's nice to watch the process of creating such structures!
your “thinking outside the box” fab skills are sick! 👍👍👍👊👊👊👊👊
You do good work man. Hell the jig I made for arms looked pitiful but they were stout enough to hold everything in place and get the job done. Rode them on my bagged blazer for 5 years as a daily and she rode like a caddy. Your approach at jigs is like mine. It’s not the actual piece you’re showing off, it’s just holding it. As long as it’s solid it’s fine. Nice video.
Justin,
As always, you make it look easy! I learn something new every time I watch and mostly listen to you intently. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and experience. Cheers, Matt
Friend, I am assembling a tricycle chassis with a WRV Honda automatic engine. I am trying to learn a bit about your welding technique with TIG. I intend to make the rear suspension in Double A as I have seen in your videos. Thank you for posting your knowledge with people like me who are not professionals in the area to learn a little.
This is possibly my favorite fab video on youtube. Great job!
I am so jealous of your weld, clean as a riverflow 👌
Love the videos. Your comments on distortion are a great addition. It should also be noted that the TIG process you're using minimizes the heat affected zone relative to other common welding processes and results in a better end product. Also, manually bending your tubing instead of throwing torch heat at it also makes for a better, stronger piece. Lot of great info and good fabrication practices here.
Awesome video as always! man watching you bend that made me sooo glad that we made our jd2 bender hydraulic!! It only cost a few hundred bucks but it will bend that 1-1/2 like butter. It was because of watching you and your tips, that is how we bend our material and the tig welding helped a lot as well! Love this channel.....
Looking forward to part 3!
Nice work there Justin!
Thanks, Jimbo! Ready to celebrate your 100k, buddy!
It would save a lot of wear and tear on your cut off lathe tooling if you back the tail stock off when finishing up the cut . It is putting a slight bind and squeezing the parts against the tool .
excellent video, well put together & lots of "why" not just "how". Just wanted to reiterate stuff like, quickly chucking up a slug of brass for the uni-ball cup. Most places that sell uni balls sell them already made up as a tool and usually they are reasonably inexpensive. A reamer can be used to, "clean up" the cup as well if the cup distorts. Not picking work apart, just pointing out for the folks on here and help others of course.
Distortion in a weld results from the expansion and contraction of the weld metal and adjacent base metal during the heating and cooling cycle of the welding process. Doing all welding on one side of a part will cause much more distortion than if the welds are alternated from one side to the other
I sure hope the mystery machinist is none other than Abom79
The SNS from Abom last night confirmed just that :)
Nice distortion control! I have built mtn bikes, and I check them the same way.
Pro tip: after using the 1 1/2 hole saw to cut the notch for the ball joint just use a fly cutter set at 1 5/8 to cut the last bit for a nice fit. Faster than grinding especially if you're already set up in the mill.
Well worth the Watch. Tig welding is Something that i would love to learn. So i will be following you from now on . Cheers Dave from Australia
love the "Idiocracy" reference!
Second one for this series...I think he said "I like money" on the first video. Glad I'm not the only one who likes that movie.
Welcome to Costco I love you.
Think we convince him to say, "welcome to the fabrication series, I love you"? LOL
"Your floors are now clean" Whack "Your floors are now clean"
One of my favs
"I'm not much of a machinist" -- I'll say! the way you faced that bar with 2 miles of stick out from the chuck! I love your fabrication work though!
Sorta hurt a little haha but he makes fab fab videos none the less! 🤣
i watched this twice its such a cool video .. love the craftmanship
I like your common sense and appreciate the great value of your talent GREAT JOB keep it coming I like your channel thanks you Justin
Haha, I see you have your Ingersol Rand compressor still bolted to the pallet which they say is a no no. I have the same compressor I left bolted to the pallet and after a couple years I vibrated a hole on one of the motor capacitors and had to go all over looking for new ones. Fixed it and padded them up a little better and about a year later still working fine. I still haven't gotten it off the pallet and bolted to the floor though...
haha im glad i am not the only one that flips his head with out his helmet on like you did at 20:55 i do that
all the time .
haha me too
Your welding is ART !
Love the nod without the shield I've done that a few times
All that lovely work is going on a patched rusty frame!!!
Hey Justin, Great video. just a thought.. after 20 years of Tig welding I developed a neck problem from nodding my head to drop the helmet. so I started to lower it down by hand, much better, the pain went away.. so give it a try before you have neck problems..
I actually set my hood up to drop with a faint nod normally. When I was younger I used to flip it back up with my neck but now I just do it to show off until I learn that my neck will get tweaked haha. Its humbling....
This is the kinda vids I subbed for. Love the series Justin! Keep an comin
20:56 was hilarious, thank you for that.
No plug welds on the bungs? Coming from the more off-road side of fab work maybe drilling the tubing for plug welds on those bungs is just overkill on a caddy. Beautiful work thanks for sharing your knowledge helps us younger guys learn the tricks
The sleeves are so thin that it might damage the threads.
Amazing as always, great detail,great information and as usual a fantastic outcome to the part I’m sure your customer will be happy with it
Its all good. I do the hoodless nod also.
Nice work and explanation as always. Seems like you would benefit from making a few simple "machinist's jacks" to bypass the scrap stacking for leveling and part positioning.
Jezz, I'm learning so much stuff from your channel 😂
Dig the video. Next time you use a spot drill to make a hole for your center- use minimum stick out from the chuck. You had about a ft which is why your spot drill didn’t nail the center.
No choice. The through hole is too small.
I love the custom fabrication content!
I’ve totally done that phantom helmet nod.... lol glad it’s not just me...😆
Helluva stickout! I need to practice more!
Haha, I cant tell you how many times over the years that I've been in that "zone" and dropped an imaginary hood that was not on my head... The best one though was the time I had on my clear grinding shield and flipped it down and mashed the pedal... Yeah, my eyes didn't like that one to say the least.
Speaking of using a smaller wire to control the weld, saw that last week on some 1/16th aluminum, I was trying to use a larger wire to keep it from blowing out, and kept having problems, when I went to the small wire it almost entirely eliminated my blow outs
That's because it takes more heat to melt the larger wire while you're teetering on enough heat to not blow the metal out. Small diameter can be worked in easier with less heat.
What about plug welding the bungs into the tube along with Weld on the joint ? Just curious some people do and some don't
Awesome videos mate, you really go in depth on fabricating, it's so helpful!
1 thing you need though is what i call an "ARNY" bar....it consists of a bigger bar to go over the smaller bar you start with to bend
and turns you into Arnold Schwarzenegger lol
Very good job on that and excellent narration. I’ve got to see you do that a arm
Hola amigo,me gusta bastante la forma de reproduccir las piezas que has de sustituir,buenosmateriales y sobre todo la soldadura,me entretengo bastatante ovservando tu trabajo,un cordial saludo.
great reference at the beginning. just watched that classic a few weeks ago!
Best channel on youtube
Love it. Keep them coming, lots of good pointers helping me along with my project.
I saw a video where the weldor put a plug in the uni-ball housing to keep distortion down. That might work for ya.
Learnt a lot from your series, cheers man.
Looks good Justin, cheers
Awesome work bro.
These sent just welds their your legasy. Nice job.
You did a great job
Very good Work.
Placeholder is a very dumbed down term but a very good one!!! Yes people go absolutely overboard with jigs. The jigs end up being a project in themselves instead of just going in the scrap bin at the end of the day. Great vids though.
"Its has electrolytes"... From the best underrated movie ever!!!
Damn, you're good. Wish I could fabricate like you.
Wish I could come to Vegas so you could teach me to weld man. I like the way you tig weld.
Heck I lived in vegas and never even thought about it!?!? What was I thinking???
Well doesn't this channel just make a perfect "ying" to my ThisOldTony's "yang"
**subscribed**
That's a great piece of work. That's great.👍👍👍
You do amazing work!!!
Bloody legend. Keep up the good work!!
Great work!!
Question, could you put something into the bung home to prevent distortion when welding? Your mock up bushings? You know they are round and the correct size.put them inside while walking the outside.
G James I did also have this thought, since they’re aluminium they would help pull heat out of the material too
Very entertaining! Didnt notice it was a 25 minute video until it was finished. After this series can you do a welding helmed video, I’m thinking the sentinel a50. But maybe there is a beter alternative?
Optrel. E684.
Love your RUclips channel with a lots of advice were i can learn a lot from
Well done, sir.
Ok you are the best master in the world
BRONDO it’s got what plants crave!
New drinking game. Take a shot every time he says "distortion. "
Very instructive! Thanks for making the generous effort to educate people like me. Do you or any of your viewers have an opinion on a Miller 330A A/BP TIG machine? One has come up for sale for an affordable price. I am a beginner aiming to to do aluminum, steel, SS, chomolly.
Very nice work. How come you didn't need to drill any holes in anything to stop hot gas popping out at the end?
The pressure will leak past the threads.
Keep theses without music! (so i can put my own background music in another tab) Awesome work keep it up!
Thanks for your video. I have a question: The pipe thickness how is it?
You need you a rotisserie my friend..... You weld a lot and it takes the standing on your head weld out....
I have a lot of fixture welding experience and just wanted to mention if you change your tack welds from 12,3 ,6 & 9 to say.... Around 1:30- 4:30- 7:30- & 10:30 you don't have to fight so much with a 6 o'clock tack.... Just saying... Great Job by the way.
Would you recommend using a flat steel plate cut to shape on a flame-table as your control arm then welded to your bushings and uniball in the jig?
Wow dude, get the die for your Rouge Fab bender. It's cheaper than a hernia. I bend 2" x 1/4" DOM all the time with mine. I've had it a couple of years now and will never use anything else. Is this control arm for an Eldorado? It's an IFS, and you mentioned a diff. I think you even mentioned it is off a Caddy. That adds up to a Cadillac. Those are cool cars. I had one that I used to drag race . The engine had forged internals, I ported the heads, intake, bigger carb, headers, ignition, and a 300 shot of nitrous. It was really striped out. For a barge it would really go. Had a blast with it.
Looks great man
You are the man maybe machine some aluminum slugs to go in the cup to help with the out of round problem
While I've never tried it, I think the aluminum would probably get soft and get stuck if it went out of round. I feel safer to rely on technique on this one.
And that's why I'm the Ford master tech and he is the master fabricator I dont no near what he does my fab skills are limited to small projects exhaust engine mounts simple stuff
@@jeremyhanna3852 We use exactly what you suggested in drill couplers and adapters, the aluminum also acts as a heat sink and pulls the heat out of the material being welded really quick. I employ them when doing pin bushings in fixtures too, after they cool the aluminum slides right out!!
@ I might try it then. Heat is rarely the issue. I learned how to keep it cool afterwarping a cup the first time haha.
@@TheFabricatorSeries Use a piece of bar stock, spin it down to a few thou under the i.d.of what your welding. I put a center hole in it and some flutes to aid in heat dissipation. I warped the shit out of some expensive stuff myself!!! Thankfully a few older, wiser fellas took pity on me and showed me what i was doing wrong. You control distortion with multiple passes and cool down now i'm guessing? Patience is hard virtue to get quickly!!
Nice job
I like your workshop mate
Justin is the welding and fabrication version of Bob Ross lol.
So when can we expect a video on extending the lever on your tube bender? Nice videos thanks for sharing!
I don't have enough shop space to extend yhe JD2 far enough to bend 3/16 🤣
He should just make it hydraulic. Its simple and pretty cheap to do.We did with ours.
@@TheFabricatorSeries Its obvious you need a bigger shop then it is the only solution.
Dammmm thats badasss....enjoying your work....how much to build a wishbone for a 68 impala.....hit me up.....
God i love your channel! i will be in touch soon, i want to come out there from MI and improve my welding
Ready when you are! 👍
I feel ya on the bender. I used .120 wall moly for the cage in my Z. My.brother thought it was DOM until he gave his first yank on the bar. He cussed at me for the whole week we had that car on the lift.
@ yes and no. I was always taught to overbuild. And its an 85 z31 its not really that heavy to begin with. Everything from the firewall back is tubed and myself and my brother can pick it up and move it fairly easily when the engine and trans is out.
@ the nhra specs the thinner wall because the hardest thing the car is going to his is a jersey barrier with give. The hardest thing i have a potential of hitting are telephone poles and texas oak trees. Significantly more stout than a jersey barrier set to give. I see your point had my intent been for track use but its more for street application. I weighed both options. The thicker tubing is what made the wife feel better about the safety part of it. The weight part i found as an advantage as i got to choose where the new weight was set without adding weights.
@@brandona4618 I never seen a jersey barrier "give" but if it makes your wife happy that keeps you in good graces with her and that's worth its weight in gold!!