Hi guys,
Just wondering if there is anything that needs to be done to a vehicle if welding directly on it? what I mean is the part I want to weld is fitted to the Jeep and I want to know if the current from the welder will kill my elecs or not, or is there something that I can do to prevent that.
I've seen in the past that exhaust shops seem to place something on the batt when they weld up the exhausts etc..
What I'm considering doing:
Out wheeling the other day and my front right shocky's top nut decided to strip its threads and come off leaving my shocky loose in the wheel well.
I tried to just remove it on the trail by removing the 2 bottom nuts and bolts as well. I got one of them off but the other was so rusted that the nut turned the bolt free - its one of those bolts that has a round head but teeth on the shaft that are supposed to lock into whatever they're holding onto, in this case the bar pin of the shocky (sorry if I explained that really badly). So what I ended up with is a free spinning bolt that I can't hold onto with a rusted/ceased nut on it..
So my dilemma is how to remove the bottom bolt on the shocky so that I can remove the shock completely. Thinking that I could tack weld the round head bolt in place on the bar pin so that I can undo the nut (with lots of WD40 of course) with fingers crossed the bolt doesn't snap.
OR for the interim, because I don't have a replacement shock (and I need to be able to drive my Jeep safely), just get a nut back on the top stem and tack weld it to keep it there (as the threads are stripped and will just come right off again) until I get a new pair of shocks.
Thanks for any suggestions you can give