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Re: roll cage question

A little confused what's the questiin

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For some reason im not able to delete . It doesn't matter now anyway . It is back at the house strike 2 on chassis builders .

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OK , I have this truck , 1976 chevy luv . I have a ton of Chromemoly and no one to bend or weld it . The ladder bars and rear axle ate built . Thinking of just ordering frame rails and 12 point cage mail order and mig welding it in myself . Tired of promises. A lot of you know I drag race . I have a big portion of this truck in a pile and a good mig welder . Like $1200 worth of materials and a week we could be scaling it . Just about to do it myself . What would ya'll do in my situation . I am not opposed to buying a bender and learning to tig weld , but it would delay racing .

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Oh and this big tire deal would be 415 ci dart block E85 AFR heade sbc with ne 1,80 ATI glide and 9 inch with aluminum bolt through case . Good parts .....

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Tube bending and TIG welding are not something you are going to learn in a short time. Especially if you are working with 4130.

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I didn't think you were allowed to cert a Chromoly cage with MIG welds. Could be wrong but MIG was ok only in regular steel cages/bars.

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I think that tig welding tube is going to take you a bit longer than you hope. I took a 90 hour welding course and only did tig (and tig welded at home). I felt pretty confident by the end of the time. Then you'd still have to learn the bending and coping...

I am all for taking time to learn a new skill but not sure how long you want to wait to race.

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Originally Posted by Captainfab (Post 8217514)

Tube bending and TIG welding are not something you are going to learn in a short time. Especially if you are working with 4130.

This is what I'm worried about and the tubing is 4130 .

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Originally Posted by BR3W CITY (Post 8217771)

I didn't think you were allowed to cert a Chromoly cage with MIG welds. Could be wrong but MIG was ok only in regular steel cages/bars.

You are correct Chromoly cannot be mig welded . I t must be tig welded . If I did it myself I would have to buy a tig machine or build it in mild steel .

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Originally Posted by tinydb84 (Post 8217916)

Well I will still be racing the yellow truck . I don't think I could get this done this year . Be lucky to have it rough assembled by Dec . and testing by January.

Monday I am going to talk to a well know builder Monday to talk about the project . He is 10-12 weeks out .