What is this horribly crude thing? It’s a brace for the 35″ spare on Ryan’s YJ. The point being: welding practice.
Welding is not hard. This is the second thing that Ryan has welded. The fourth that I have welded. The results are pretty much identical. Beads still aren’t amazing, but I think you’ll agree they are good enough. This is still with flux-cored wire and no gas. Ryan said the same thing last night that I’ve been saying for the past month… “Why did it take us so long to buy a welder?”
REALLY… how did we ever survive without 3″ wide flat bar welded to 1.5″ square tubing?
Thankfully, on a big nasty crude truck, such things are already commonplace. Will definitely have to step it up a notch before attacking the Corolla or the Legacy… or even the ZJ.