HAYNES OFFROAD
aka Wreckless
Haha yes I know
Yea it's a long story, but here's what happened... Had the ABS and a set of deaver +3 shipped, UPS lost one of the deavers, I'm going on a trip his weekend to play so no time to get another deaver, so stock leafs it is this time around, stock leafs require some additional hardware from SVC to attach striker plate, which I didn't have, because deavers were ordered. So because I'm short on time, and to save time, I installed the ABS and waited while Jeff overnighted the rest of the hardware that I now needed because stock leafs. So in-between that time I reinstalled the OEM's bump stop by cutting the "fingers" off, putting some duct tape on the mount so as not to scratch powder coat, and bolting it back on through the ABS hole.
The bolts on the bump can are just standard 12 point sockets/wrenches.
Tig vs. Mig..... That's a whole nother discussion that could take an hour. Main advantage of tig is cleaner, more precise welds. TIG welds generally are more ductile (less brittle) than MIG. This is because TIG creates a larger HAZ (heat affected zone) than MIG (that's the blued area going away from the weld joint). TIG also tends to mix the filler material with the base material better than MIG. It's also ALOT more time consuming, hence why higher costs in having parts tig'd. Overall strength between two good Mig vs. Tig welds would be very close.
I believe my shipped weight for my ABS was like 70-80 pounds, I think, I can't remember.
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I wouldn't recommend it. Not at the torque ratings required.
