welding on car??
 

i need to touch up a weld on my manifild and i want to do it on my car if posible

what do i need to do to weld on my car without ------ anything up?? disconect the bbattery, ecu or teh radio???

Re: welding on car??
 

I just leave everything attached. Just make sure you have no gas leaks or lots of oil buildup on your block. Otherwise weld away! Just watch out for sparks landing on ---- and just burn ---- thats plastic.

Re: welding on car??
 

disconnect the battery, don't weld with it connected.

Re: welding on car??
 

I would disconnect the battery to be safe. Make sure you get a good solid ground to your machine as well. Last week, where I work, someone did some welding on a piece of a ship we were building while the crane had it suspended. They forgot to attach a ground cable... current ran all through the unit being lifted, up the cable, through the entire crane, and fried all of the instruments in the cabin.

Re: welding on car??
 

I weld on cars all the time at work with no problems but they do recomend to disconect the battery( I dont) :P whoever they are ???

Re: welding on car??
 

I've seen first hand what happens when you don't.

Pure unadulterated electrical mayhem.

Re: welding on car??
 

lol i think basically what there sayin is dont hook the ground to anywhere but the manifold otherwise you may fry your electronics.



sean

Re: welding on car??
 

ive done exhaust welding on cars without taking the battery cable off, but i dont think id weld a manifold or anything else underhood without taking the cable off... sounds sketchy to me. Just be safe with it, it takes 20 sec to take off the cable...

Re: welding on car??
 

its definitely one of those one in a million instances.