Pity7700 Build thread, why not? pic heavy!

Self shielded? Or are you running gas? We use a 75/25 mix at work and it still puts out spatter and buckshot. Annoying as can be

 

its self-shielding wire.

 

Well yeah that's what flux core Is but you can still run gas with it if you wanted.

 

what is the purpose of the gas?

 

forgot to post this up the other day, the last of the welding. looking a hell of a lot better than when i first tried.

 

Bed project has begun, time for pics.

Took the bumper, lights and bed liner out whole I was waiting for my buddy.



We took the tires off and lowered the truck down. It would have been a pain in the ass to lift the bed over the tires.






Got the bed off with no problem. The underbody looks pretty damn good. I may paint it.



The underside of the bed is another story. The support beams were so thin. They crumbled in my hand.


Got everything grinded and cut off. Ended up having a couple spots of the bed rusting through so I cut them out and picked up a sheet of steel from Lowes to patch the holes.
what's the beat way to go about patching the holes? Should I weld a piece on both the top and bottom of the bed?



Driving like this for the rest of the week.




Welded up a temp. Light bar for brake lights and turn signals.

 

Sweet plan man

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for sheet metal, best Ive seen is cut out the rusted piece, use it as a template for the new, then tack it in solid, grind flush and clean, some people bondo it to get perfectly flat/smooth, for the bed....meh dont worry about it, then primer and paint.

for the supports...get either square tube or U shaped stuff and weld it in. then drill holes where needed. prep and paint.

 

Wow those beams were gone.

The holes best filled by cutting a filler piece the same size as the hole
the hole must have clean metal no rust and welding it flush. Few spot welds around the filler edges
so as to not get it to hot.
Then wait for it to cool and fill in the unwelded areas slowly
waiting for the surrounding metal to cool between spot welds
so the heat doesn't warp the larger sheet metal area around the hole being filled.