I am looking for someone that can recommend a welder for me in Houston that can weld my track bar drop bracket for me. I have gotten a clunk that seems to have gotten worse, so I took a look under my truck and it looks like the track bar drop bracket has shifted a little. I want to get it back in place and weld it so this thing can't move any more.

Anyone got a shop they would recommend that can weld on my truck without screwing it up, or making it look like a hack job?

 

Also if anyone has a stock track bar they want to get rid of let me know. I want to see if the clunk goes away by putting a track bar with less of a bend over the diff. My Thuren gets hit by the ball joint on the pitman arm, and by the bolts on the sleeve to adjust my toe.

 

No one? I need to get this sucker looked at. I got a bad clunk!

 

Everyone I would let weld on my truck other than me is up in Marshall welding on the pipeline....

Sorry Bud!

 

Well shoot. I guess I am going to have to try my luck and just go to a local offroad shop. I can't keep driving this pig with it clunking everytime I hit a bump or turn my wheels.

Still need to give a stock track bar a shot to see if that's all it is.

 

O had a place tell me 150. Pfft, they must not be doing a lot of business.

 

Check the yellow pages for a Steel Fabrication Shop. They should know a qualified welder with a rig that either can come to you or you can go to him or to the Fab shop. Generally those guys with the trucks are either to good to work for a shop or not any good at all and can't work for a shop.

Ask if the welder has qualifications for 3G and 4G steel plate. Now how far you want to take that, is up to you. I would want to see it. The certification should be stamped with a Diamond like stamp with AWS on it and signed by an Certified AWS Inspector. Other Certs would be from ASME and ABS.

 

iam not sure how far this guy is from you, but i do know he can weld, when i worked in Bastrop i went to pick-up a cattle guard he made us and it was the most impressive welding work i had ever seen, clean as could be and flawless.

check him out


www.creppelenterprises.com

 

He isn't toooo terribly far from me. It's not a quick trip across town, but it's not like driving to Dallas either. If I can't find anything around town, I may have to give him a shout.

I about fell over laughing when the girl at the offroad shop sent me an email and said 150 just to run a bead on the drop bracket that is already mounted.

 

wow thats the highest paid welder i have heard of! $150 to weld a 5sec bead pffftt!


IF you drive to my shop i will run a bead on both sides with the mig for lunch money......

 

It would cost me less to drive to the guy you linked lol... Dallas and back is about 800 miles for me

 

I can look at it one afternoon after work, see what needs to be done, I'm on the southeast side of town, La Porte / Baytown area,,,, I've only been welding for 46 yrs.,,,,,, man that's a long time.

If your on the north side of town, my son might look at it for you, course he drives a Dura-stop, , so I don't know if he'll look at a goat.

 

I live down on the south side as well... Pearland to be exact.... I may be able to drop by in the morning on Saturday weather permitting of course.