Re: Rear diagonal needed?
Ok a few beers and a 4.5" cutter, a few more beers and I got the one side short brace cut out, and now a full length diagonal up to the driver's head tack welded in. I also switched from .035 wire which is the wire I bought when I got my Mig years ago, and finally figured out a smaller wire might work better for my small Miller 140 gas unit. I got a roll of .030 at Harbor Freight, hopefully the gook stuff works as good as what I had before. Seems to work pretty good. What are others using for wire? Just curious. When doing this cage and a previous team's, I was having a lot of trouble with my welds (wire was not feeding fast enough or enough power, I did not know what) and finally figured out my very old tip needed changing as it was hanging up when it got hot - I thought it was my welder! LOL Of course I still suck at welding but.....
The brace I cut out was smaller dia and I figured out I could use that inside the other larger tubing as an adjustable back brace sort of thing, so I guess I'm making lemonaid out of Lemons! (pun intended)
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Scott
Speed Racer Mach5 Mustang
Houston TX