For some reason, you find a lot of hesitation when it comes to welding things to axle housings. People that do a lot of other fabrication are often scared to do this one. I understand, as people are afraid of warping the housing, but that’s not a big concern when welding on small things like link brackets. If you were welding a truss or something like that, you’d want to either put an alignment bar through the axle housing, fixture mount it, and brace it to your welding table, or both. But this is just brackets, so weld away.
With that said, making sure you keep your brackets straight so that whatever is going to mount to them will fit, is key. In this video you are going to get info on both scenarios from Ian, so check it out and learn stuff.
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Video Description:
Welding out the four link brackets on the Spidertrax Fabricated axle housings on the Bomber Fab car, and finishing up the front three link brackets on the Dana 60 front for the UA Colorado.
