Got busy welding up the tubing, using the fixture we created in the previous post to keep all of the tubes located correctly. Started by going around the outside perimeter with series of tack welds in order to help minimize distortion, then allowing it to cool, and then worked on tacking the inner tubes.
After tacking up two complete sub assemblies (left and right), mocked them up against the rear cross-member and proceeded to weld the entire assembly together.
Tacked a short piece of tubing temporarily across the front to maintain square while going back over the entire assembly with finish welds.
Once the welds cooled down, took some of the higher weld beads down with the grinder and then proceeded to use a flap disk to finish up the joints.
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