Four wheeler gearbox repair

[monkers]

I did this a while back, it is a gear box or transfer case or something like that for an ATV of a friend of mine, who is rough on things lol. You can see the lug cracked, and a chunk missing.


So I decided to make a new lug and cut the remains of the old one off. I had to fabricate a fixture to hold the lug in the right place to weld it.



Made the lug.


Put a radius on the lug to fit the gear box

[monkers]

Then had to cut the old crap off and clean up the gear box and fit the lug.

This is how I held it in the vise to do the lug removal surgery

Then I threw some bird ***** at it with the spool gun, and added a pad in a weak area



After welding I started cleaning up and blending with a flap wheel.


Another good before shot

It came out ok, he was happy with it and its still holding lol
Thanks for looking. My TIG is a Squarewave 175 and I wasnt sure if it had the oomph to do it so I used a spool gun I have at work, and did it on my lunch breaks.
Craig

[doubleboost]

Nice repair
It would have taken a big TIG set to weld that up
The wire feed is not as prity as a Tig but the welds look plenty strong enough
John

[monkers]

Thank you! Its still holding, think its been a year or so lol

[doubleboost]

(12-01-2012, 05:04 PM)monkers Wrote: Thank you! Its still holding, think its been a year or so lol

The time and care you have shown in the jig to set it all up is the impresive part
John

[sasquatch]

Good repair, thanks for posting this.

(Nice "YOST" vise!!)

[monkers]

Quote:The time and care you have shown in the jig to set it all up is the impresive part
John

Thank you! Yes, getting it right is important;) better to spend an extra few moments with the set up then trying to figure out how to make it fit when its wrong :)

[monkers]

(12-01-2012, 05:40 PM)sasquatch Wrote: Good repair, thanks for posting this.

(Nice "YOST" vise!!)

Thank you for the kind words. The vice is very nice, use it all the time :)

[ETC57]

Fantastic repair Craig,
Thanks for the post.
Jerry.

[monkers]

(12-01-2012, 10:52 PM)ETC57 Wrote: Fantastic repair Craig,
Thanks for the post.
Jerry.

Thank you Jerry, glad I could share a little bit. I really enjoy reading everyones posts and checking out their work.