You always post such good content, but you gave me flashbacks to welding new rockers on my own 99 XJ. Rust repair can be frustrating. Thank you for putting the torque specs as well, always a big help
I'm really impressed with you being so young, but yet so much patience. Keep on jeeping. My 99 WJ isn't quite as rusty, but still quite a few projects. Installed a new Mellon Cam for torque. My new Banks Header is installed. My Denso 12 port injectors are installed. New brakes, rotors and hardware are done. New shocks and lift complete. Probably gonna go with K Suspension coil pack, and snorkel for cold air intake. Probably also gonna install a couple vents in my hood for heat transfer. #neverending #jeepproject
Looking for an opinion. What are your thoughts on using self tappers to hold the stiffness in place before welding? I do not know how to weld, but im contemplating buying a mig and starting to practice before i touch the xj. Ive always wanted to, but ive never had the funds or need. The thought behind self tapper would be. If i was going to lay to have it done. I would do all the prep work, them use the tappers to line everything up before having someone there. Im extremely picky with alignments, so that way i could take my time get everything perfect, them let someone just focus on the welds to save on cost.
Really good content. As someone else pointed out, .023 will help. Investing in a gas bottle even more. Using flux core requires the polarity setting that hits the work harder than if you’re using gas. It’s a huge thing when welding thin. You could also start fully on the 3/16 then tease the puddle over to the body’s sheet metal. Bottom line is you’re doing some pretty complicated welding there and these are just little tweaks that will help. Good job and thanks for the content
Good advice, I think I dialed it into having bad welding wire which made things difficult. I have been using Blue Demon welding wire which seemed to melt at a lower temp and spattered fairly bad. I switched to a Hobart wire and it was a day and night difference.
Well looks like I'm not doing that lol my Xj flex's fine as the whole thing moves lol what's the advantage of doing this if I'm only running 31" tires 🤷 but I do go on extreme trails on Glade top trail
I'm a noob but good job explaining differences welding stuff ... I'm looking to buy a welder but can't afford the beasts . Was wondering If 120v can weld chasis stuff as from what I googled they say its just for body sheet metal stuff :( ... but hoping flux could do misc stuff like brackets to steer suspension stuff or even if i decide to do wj knuckle mod spacer to cast ? What makes a beast welder different when doing what your doing here ?
Great Job Austin! I need to do this and do 2x6 rockers also. Looking forward to your future videos! Austin can you please make a video giving your feedback. As to how the Jeep drives now with the frame stiffeners. Do you notice it? Is it like night and day better etc? Get the Jeep articulated and see if the doors open and close better after this modification. Cheers
I probably wont make a video dedicated to the feedback. But I can give updates on how it's doing in future videos. So far it's made an improvement to how solid it feels going down the road. But when I had the jeep on the lift doing the lift kit install before stuffiners, I noticed the doors were hard to open and close, so that was the main driver to getting these installed.
I wouldn't be too concerned with the 3/6" of a drop, it didn't seem to affect the jeep at all. A worn out trans mount will give the transmission more play than that. But you could always space out the mount to make up for the difference if you wanted too.
Holy shit! You sure got your moneys worth outta that wire cup. The ones I get always toss all the wire before they get noticeably shorter. It seems like after it tosses a few, it just starts tossing more wires faster the more you use it. Maybe that's just the harbor freight ones?
I'm curious if frame stiffeners can be installed without welding. My idea would be to drill up from the bottom of the stiffener though the frame and through the floor then using long 3/8" bolts with large washers put the bolts down through the floor and finally nuts with washers on the under side of the frame stiffener. This of course provided your floor was either in excellent condition or replaced and not totally rusty. Additional bolts could be installed horizontally through the stiffener and frame to keep the stiffener tight against the frame side to side. This would work I think for those who do not own a welder or have welding experience.
Leave the undercoating simple math and then only clean them areas needed for weld, buff out the rust. Leave the rest of the undercoating for protection. Same on your stiffeners do the math tape the areas to be welded paint the rest with cold galv when you have galvanized in the way of Your Weld requires more heat which increases your chances of burn through .025 flux core wire you have to clean the wells but it's much easier and forgiving to weld with I call it the cheat weld the man who invented it needs to be slapped because it's so easy anybody can buy a little buzz box and think they're a welder lincoln .025 nr211 wire
You always post such good content, but you gave me flashbacks to welding new rockers on my own 99 XJ. Rust repair can be frustrating. Thank you for putting the torque specs as well, always a big help
If you can try moving down to .23 wire, it's extremely forgiving when welding thin metal.
I'm really impressed with you being so young, but yet so much patience. Keep on jeeping. My 99 WJ isn't quite as rusty, but still quite a few projects. Installed a new Mellon Cam for torque.
My new Banks Header is installed. My Denso 12 port injectors are installed. New brakes, rotors and hardware are done. New shocks and lift complete.
Probably gonna go with K Suspension coil pack, and snorkel for cold air intake.
Probably also gonna install a couple vents in my hood for heat transfer.
#neverending
#jeepproject
This is a great video! Wish I could weld... can’t wait to see the floors and rockers!
im planning on my XJ getting these rails too.. thanks for the explaining
Thank you for the part where you described the welding challenges, I’m about to do this and I appreciate you sharing your lessons learned.
Absolutely looking forward to the rust fixing. It is so satisfying cleaning up all the rust. The new floor and rockers is something I need to do also.
Always glad to see a new video from you.
Great detail about the installation!
Awesome to see you still making content probably your longest time follower brotha I've been around since the iFunny days.
Damn that was awhile ago.
@@OutJeeping haha definitely
Looking for an opinion. What are your thoughts on using self tappers to hold the stiffness in place before welding?
I do not know how to weld, but im contemplating buying a mig and starting to practice before i touch the xj. Ive always wanted to, but ive never had the funds or need.
The thought behind self tapper would be. If i was going to lay to have it done. I would do all the prep work, them use the tappers to line everything up before having someone there. Im extremely picky with alignments, so that way i could take my time get everything perfect, them let someone just focus on the welds to save on cost.
Always amazing content
Great job! Notice you don’t get too frustrated about weldin that thin metal. I gota do mine and I don’t think I can as calm as you🤦♂️
There was some cuss words thrown at my Jeep, TH-cam isn't too forgiving on that so it's all edited out lol.
Great work Austin
Great video
Nice job Austin 👍👍
Great video 👍👍🤠
Really good content. As someone else pointed out, .023 will help. Investing in a gas bottle even more. Using flux core requires the polarity setting that hits the work harder than if you’re using gas.
It’s a huge thing when welding thin. You could also start fully on the 3/16 then tease the puddle over to the body’s sheet metal. Bottom line is you’re doing some pretty complicated welding there and these are just little tweaks that will help. Good job and thanks for the content
Good advice, I think I dialed it into having bad welding wire which made things difficult. I have been using Blue Demon welding wire which seemed to melt at a lower temp and spattered fairly bad. I switched to a Hobart wire and it was a day and night difference.
Nice.
Well looks like I'm not doing that lol my Xj flex's fine as the whole thing moves lol what's the advantage of doing this if I'm only running 31" tires 🤷 but I do go on extreme trails on Glade top trail
The “lip” (I have it on a RuffStuff set) welds to the underside of the frame lip. Burn thru not an issue.
I'm a noob but good job explaining differences welding stuff ... I'm looking to buy a welder but can't afford the beasts . Was wondering If 120v can weld chasis stuff as from what I googled they say its just for body sheet metal stuff :( ... but hoping flux could do misc stuff like brackets to steer suspension stuff or even if i decide to do wj knuckle mod spacer to cast ? What makes a beast welder different when doing what your doing here ?
My 120v Lincoln 140 can handle up to 5/16" but other 240v machines can weld thicker with gas.
Great Job Austin!
I need to do this and do 2x6 rockers also. Looking forward to your future videos!
Austin can you please make a video giving your feedback. As to how the Jeep drives now with the frame stiffeners.
Do you notice it? Is it like night and day better etc? Get the Jeep articulated and see if the doors open and close better after this modification.
Cheers
I probably wont make a video dedicated to the feedback. But I can give updates on how it's doing in future videos. So far it's made an improvement to how solid it feels going down the road. But when I had the jeep on the lift doing the lift kit install before stuffiners, I noticed the doors were hard to open and close, so that was the main driver to getting these installed.
Good video. I would consider doing this but the guy who did my rock rails welded them to the frame. I figure that makes it pretty stiff.
Is there an issue with the change in height of the transmission brace? You now have the extra thickness from the frame stiffeners..
I wouldn't be too concerned with the 3/6" of a drop, it didn't seem to affect the jeep at all. A worn out trans mount will give the transmission more play than that. But you could always space out the mount to make up for the difference if you wanted too.
good job!
Definitely a rodent, not a birds nest. Great video though!
I'm not too sure, we got some small birds that could probably fit in the rear drain hole. Plus there was some bird feathers in there.
Holy shit! You sure got your moneys worth outta that wire cup. The ones I get always toss all the wire before they get noticeably shorter. It seems like after it tosses a few, it just starts tossing more wires faster the more you use it. Maybe that's just the harbor freight ones?
I'm not sure what brand this one was but I tossed it and got a new one after this video.
I'm fixin to try out one of the Milwaukee wires next, wheel or cup.
how big of a difference does this make in every day driving and highway?
It made a difference for me, hard to explain the feeling but it felt more solid and less like riding in a rattly sheet metal box.
@@OutJeeping I see, thanks for the reply I appreciate it.
Can you do the XJ to WJ power steering swap?
Like should I make a video on it or can it be done?
@@OutJeeping can you make a video on it lol. You seem to explain things better. I’m a noob.
I'd rather TIG for these kinds of welds. Mainly because I suck at wire feed welding
As long as you got the time and welder
Is that a walker front exhaust pipe?
It is, though not a big fan of Walker products.
@@OutJeeping o ok does it run 2.5in through the whole pipe?
I love how the rusted out rockers are ignored and fresh metal is welded elsewhere.
It has been repaired in following videos.
@@OutJeeping now I'm jealous. Time to go buy a welder 🤑
I'm curious if frame stiffeners can be installed without welding. My idea would be to drill up from the bottom of the stiffener though the frame and through the floor then using long 3/8" bolts with large washers put the bolts down through the floor and finally nuts with washers on the under side of the frame stiffener. This of course provided your floor was either in excellent condition or replaced and not totally rusty. Additional bolts could be installed horizontally through the stiffener and frame to keep the stiffener tight against the frame side to side. This would work I think for those who do not own a welder or have welding experience.
Leave the undercoating simple math and then only clean them areas needed for weld, buff out the rust. Leave the rest of the undercoating for protection. Same on your stiffeners do the math tape the areas to be welded paint the rest with cold galv when you have galvanized in the way of Your Weld requires more heat which increases your chances of burn through .025 flux core wire you have to clean the wells but it's much easier and forgiving to weld with I call it the cheat weld the man who invented it needs to be slapped because it's so easy anybody can buy a little buzz box and think they're a welder lincoln .025 nr211 wire
Where’d you get that United States flag with the xj grill it’s badass!
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@@OutJeeping thanks do you know if I could get one with a red grill
@@LuisLopez-jg6gx I think they still make them in a variety of colors.
Is that flag in reference to the thin blue line flags?
@@PatIrwin It can be, they make them in a variety of colors.
My rockers are gone just like that 😭