Cast iron (ear) welding repair attempt on engine

[sd455dan]

Yes, The further you dig, The more you find on specialty rods. There are a ton of cool ones out there. I used to sell MG and JW Harris / Welco filler metals in the old days.. When Lincoln bought JW Harris back in the early 2000's Most of us bailed and went on to other things. Some of the old JW Harris guys started up the same type of company called Weldcote Metals and they sold / sell a lot of the old specialty rods. I like Super 120 and 83/88 to name a few. MG I like MG500 and 80TAC. MG used to have a hard surface rod that you could run a bead with one hand and feed another rod with the other. Seems like it was 6065? 1990's memory so may be off a bit.

Wow- feeding another rod in while running a regular SMAW bead with the other hand.?

So arc with quasi-TIG at the same time- Was it possible to get a good looking bead doing this and must have had to run on the high side of amps,? was a footpedal to adjust amps needed?


ps- gave the weld a light stress test and moved the engine stand mount up to the new built up ear.

the bolt did have to pull the top of the block back when lightly snugging it down- although I only put about 15lb on the bolt
Will have to do some final contouring when a transmission gets bolted up.

i was knocking off some of the BBs that were on the block after welding and 1 had stuck to a ring gear tooth.
tried chipping it off and even a punch with a hammer -no dice finally got out a couple different files and contoured it back to original shape. can't believe that little piece stuck to un-prepped metal after flying thru the air like that.

Thanks for the help, info and encouragement it is appreciated

 

[yomax4]

Wow- feeding another rod in while running a regular SMAW bead with the other hand.?

So arc with quasi-TIG at the same time- Was it possible to get a good looking bead doing this and must have had to run on the high side of amps,? was a footpedal to adjust amps needed?


ps- gave the weld a light stress test and moved the engine stand mount up to the new built up ear.

the bolt did have to pull the top of the block back when lightly snugging it down- although I only put about 15lb on the bolt
Will have to do some final contouring when a transmission gets bolted up.

i was knocking off some of the BBs that were on the block after welding and 1 had stuck to a ring gear tooth.
tried chipping it off and even a punch with a hammer -no dice finally got out a couple different files and contoured it back to original shape. can't believe that little piece stuck to un-prepped metal after flying thru the air like that.

Thanks for the help, info and encouragement it is appreciated

You're scaring me with the fit up issue. It will need to be very close to perfect. I think you've got ths though. Good luck !!