front diff support snapped.. help!
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- Redbull(Ranger)
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front diff support snapped.. help!
Front diff support to body is snapped do anyone of you know where i could take it in and get this part fixed? i have no welding skills. but welding i think is the only way to fix this support. this bar that is on the front diff goes to a bushing which is attached to the frame of the truck and the whole assembly is snapped from the body. ill post pictures soon.
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here is a video of the part that is broken. its nothing to do with the actual differential just the bushing to the frame.
i just put in a "new" transfer case in this weekend it went very well. got at pasco auto wrecking only has 45 thousnad miles on it. just need to find a body shop to fix this problem now with the bushing support
here is the broken bracket to the body.
This is the bushing without that bracket on you can see the hole in the body where the bracket is usually at
Just need to get the bracket for the bushing back on and itll be all good.
here is a video of the part that is broken. its nothing to do with the actual differential just the bushing to the frame.
i just put in a "new" transfer case in this weekend it went very well. got at pasco auto wrecking only has 45 thousnad miles on it. just need to find a body shop to fix this problem now with the bushing support
here is the broken bracket to the body.
This is the bushing without that bracket on you can see the hole in the body where the bracket is usually at
Just need to get the bracket for the bushing back on and itll be all good.
WATCH OUT!
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White trash wrote:bobracing wrote:do a search on brake clean and welding before using it.
Nothing readily available today will cause an issue that I'm aware of. Wasn't it something to do with the UV light from tig mixing with the argon and burning chlorinated brake cleaner?
I heard it was from the electrical current and didn't actually need to be a tig to cause problems. I just stick to carb cleaner and a wire brush on an angle grinder to be safe.
Various chlorinated hydrocarbons are used in degreasing or other cleaning operations. The vapors of these solvents are a concern in welding and cutting because the heat and ultraviolet radiation from the arc will decompose the vapors and form highly toxic and irritating phosgene gas. (See Phosgene.)
I stole that from some website that lists dangerous stuff that shouldn't be welded without precautions. I've been told all this before. Just can't ever remember it all.
I'd use a wire wheel on the parts and just weld it back in place.
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- Redbull(Ranger)
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well this truck was in a wreck before it was transformed into a off roading truck and i think that support was weak to begin with and it just snapped recently. i think. but yea it is a Ford. hahaha i like chevys way better myself anyway. i have a 1997 suburban 5.7l v8 and that thing will go forever it has 250,660 miles on it and has only needed a replaced intake maniflod its a beast
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Someday, in the not too distant future, today's NEW Fords will become Old Fords. . .and they will still be the BEST vehicles on the road.
I wasn't a Ford guy at all until I owned a couple. If you guys could even imagine what we put our trucks through you'd be sold too.
For example. . .I ran my completely stock Excursion through 80 miles of Trophy Truck Whoops (3 to 6' tall) at the half way point of a 3000 mile road trip and then drove it home with only an air filter change.
On the Ranger. . .well. . .you don't even want to know what that things been through. The only time it lost to a Toyota, the yotard cheated by cutting 35miles off of the course. . .oh, wait, we still passed him.
I wasn't a Ford guy at all until I owned a couple. If you guys could even imagine what we put our trucks through you'd be sold too.
For example. . .I ran my completely stock Excursion through 80 miles of Trophy Truck Whoops (3 to 6' tall) at the half way point of a 3000 mile road trip and then drove it home with only an air filter change.
On the Ranger. . .well. . .you don't even want to know what that things been through. The only time it lost to a Toyota, the yotard cheated by cutting 35miles off of the course. . .oh, wait, we still passed him.
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