Big Rig Axle Spring Perches 

Well as far as the internet inspectors go. They remind me a lot of the sales folks at the parts house. There's a reason they're selling parts. Most of the time it's because they didn't or couldn't make it as a mechanic. The mechanic I apprenticed under told me that many MANY years ago. Wouldn't ya know it, it's proven to be true again and again. So I wouldn't take the internet inspectors to seriously. Amazing work as always!! Although no cutting torch work in this video. You have the best torch work I've ever seen, by far!! Thank You Sir for bringing us along. It's greatly appreciated!! Have a good one and be safe out there!

Personal story watching this channel… Dad ran equipment building roads in Texas, tearing up exactly what he fixes here. He got cancer and I brought him home to take care of him. Anyway, he asked me everyday what IC Weld had uploaded and we watched every damn video. It’s good stuff man, people just love learning how to fix old tractors and things. It means a lot to some folks.

Filler and paint makes a welder what he ain’t!

You can tell if the machine is set correctly by the sound. Love that mig bug.

That's the best camera shot I've seen of a welder laying down a bead... You could see ever little movement you made. Thanks to the attention to detail you made sitting up the camera position. I always make sure you get a thumbs up!!

Anyone who negatively comments on your welding abilities and welds obviously has zero professional welding experience backing their motormouths.motor mouths. I was a OJT then collage trained Ironworked union welder for almost 3 years before I went off to Coast Guard boot camp and I've yet to see you make a mistake on any of your vids. A minor amount of paint is absolutely not cause an issue on a weld as long as the welder is in the proper settings and the correct wire or stick is used. I enjoy watching your vids. They bring back pleasant memories of my time welding with a great bunch of guys.

I love the comment “Internet Inspectors”. There is always someone out there that will alway type what is on their mind.

My father started his welding career off working in the shipyards Bremerton, Washington. After WW11 you took what work was available. If I remember correctly the decks of the aircraft carrier was somewhere between 2.5 and 4.0 inches thick. They heated the deck plates up and you would "burn rod" all day long. Each welder had a "fire watch" it was their job to keep you from running out of rod, and of course put the fire out if you were on fire. Dad moved up to Boiler welder. As a machinist and welder, he did whatever they needed. If you ever wondered "who" designed the air hose couplers that had the ball bearing and spring in them, that was my father. They had air hose couplers, but if they came loose, they would beat you to death before they got the air turned off. When {Government Contract} they reviewed his invention. They told him it would restrict air flow too much. Less than a year later they were installing them on every air hose on the base! My father knew who invented it, he did. At 94 years old this old machinist and welder passed away 5 years ago. I enjoy watching your videos because just like Delmer Ross you do a lot more than welding. When "Dad" passed away he had more than 9 welders, no auto-darkening for him.

Good looking welds. You’re hired.

Nothing a little paint can’t fix🤣🤣. Great job!! Looking forward to watching a new video.

It is always humbling just how much knowledge fellas like you have amassed over the years. I truly love your videos.

your always gunna be better than factory , you look at the problem & take into account the stresses & loads in which the part will undertake , factory boys just weld & thats about it !!! watching you working is equally as good as watching your videos !! , well done IC regards from a big fan of yours , from the UK

"Internet Inspectors" 🤣 Love your work 👍

You know you've reached RU-vid fame when the internet inspectors critique your work. Another great job that will last a very long time.

Hi Isaac😊 nice job, they ain't falling off that's for sure, neat welds. Thanks for the video mate, stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.

Modest as ever Isaac.

I don't know Isaac, I think I would have done it with my 110V home depot welder on heat C and feed 4!! LOL Great work as usual, pay no attention to the internet welding inspectors, there are plenty of us who know a true craftsman when we see it, and we see it every time we watch you work.

Don't worry about the internet critics. Most of them can't run a bead half as good as yours. They just want to tell you how to do it based on what they learned on some other RU-vid video.

Very impressive Isaac, I am envious of the work you do every day and am really impressed with your quality 👍👍

Hello from Alabama love to watch your videos

A nice easy number to make up for all the times you've been gouging and piecing things together for a change 👍

Your welding is awesome and you make it look so easy. Love your videos! I usually don't comment, but I always do give a thumbs up!

Great Job Isaac ,you know what I like the Most about your Video is ,you never try to sell product ,and never complain about the Job your going to do next ,you always give 110 % every time and and take great pride in your Work ,always looking forward to your next Videos thank you Sir .

As always - you take the time to do it right!! The way you ground each attachment plate and the axle to fit flat with each other!! I like how you said - It's not falling off!! Knowing how many blows with a 20 pound sledge it would take to even move one of those plates!! Your welds are always beautiful and most of all STRONG!! Thanks for showing us how to do things the right way!

Internet inspectors, Issac you got a good sense of humor! Good to see the Miller Equipment in the shop, sent twenty years with Miller.

It quite hypnotic watching you lay the bead, nice work as always.

Purchased the Ellis band saw one size down from what you have. I love it.

You killed me with the internet inspector’s 😆

Isaac,it’s soo good to watch a skilled welder weld with mig as you do with stick😀 Can see how a stick welding is your preference 🤔 Incredible craftsmanship 👍thanks

I love it, “internet inspectors”

Gotta love metal core wire. Great video 👍

Nice job Isaac!

Another great video Isaac!

Awesome welds really hot without undercutting.

Good stuff. You are definitely a master of the craft.

great work as usual

Isaac, I worked with a man with abilities similar to yours. He could weld underwater, huge gas supply lines, you name it! I appreciate your ability and your humble spirit about it. He taught me how to weld some. I could never achieve his or your level of excellence but I tried. Great job I always learn something from you! Thanks 😊

Back in 2000 when Spicer switched from bolt on rear cover to welded on cover for Peterbilt air leaf suspension. They all cracked at the top, had to grind crack out, weld it and put support plate for tracking rod mount on top of housing. Spicer never had us pre-heat housing but it was also still in chassis and with everything still in housing. Never drained oil out either per Spicer you wasn't going to get paid for it

I learn a new tip or method from every video. Thank you.

thanks for sharing

Your more confident than me; I normally make a overly engineered jig off the pumpkin. Nice work as always 👏

Great job as usual Isaac. I'm a retired truck driver, I spent 37 years driving. Those housings looked awful familiar. When you mentioned Paccar of course, either Kenworth or Peterbilt. I doubly enjoy your videos, when I retired I took up welding. I've learned a lot from watching you. I don't consider myself a welder, but I'm working on it.

Love watching. I always had to crawl under the truck to do all that. Keeping the airlines from melting was a big problem. Burned many a hole in my shorts.

Nice easy job for you

Impressive watching your welding skills most definitely years of experience a man that takes pride in his work takes pride in himself nice

great work

Nice fit-up Isaac....And, you always give great explanations....

cool to see

I noted you started off wearing sneakers and finished wearing boots...LOL. Nicely done, Isaac.

Nice work

*I C Weld* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. God Bless.

ALWAYS GREAT WELDING and ENGINEERING !!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~

I saw that smoke going back into the weld and knew what you did

We watch every day, like to see the beautiful welding and all the thought that you put into the job

Love ur videos.

Nice up close welding viewing with the camera!

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟Revers video LOL-knew something was up ?? , 5 stars

Very nice!

That welding sound is music to my ears,

Awesome welding!, I love watching your videos 👍👍

Very 😎

I love to watch an expert tradesman at work !

This is my favourite welding program. Thank you Isaac.

I would like to see the internet inspectors lay down a bead as pretty as yours lol. Good job I C keep them coming.

Hey Isaac. Beautiful job as always. I’d like to share something with you. I’ve been a custom furniture manufacturer for a little over 23 years. 10 years into my journey I made some pieces for a very nice couple. The wife was dying from mesothelioma. She asked me to please wear a respirator EVERY time a sanded or used a grinder. Something I’d never done. Like you I was very safety oriented. Obsessively so. But I never took care of my lungs. I promised her that I would and to be honest, she saved my life. To this day my oxygenation level never gets above 94%. But I can assure you, had I not made the promise to this lovely lady, I’d be on a ventilator or worse. I’d think of her every time I’d grab my sander and my conscience would make me take the time to look for the mask that I thought was inconsequential. Brother, please take care of those lungs. One more tip. Your skillet should allow you to charge more for your work. With that extra money, please think about a hood system for your workshop. Tons of heavy metals and carcinogens in weld fumes. I’m sure you know.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on prep and layout; running nice beads is one thing but the setup is the hard part.

Always like watching these videos. Very good to see different processes.

Somehow, I think its not going to fall off! Paint is only there to hide a multitude of sins ! That must have been a hot job.

I love your videos. I am about to graduate for Welding Technology. I enjoy watching a true master at our trade work. An try to learn from your videos so that I may become a better welder.

It's almost always a smoked spindle that retires an axle housing. Can usually find a good used unit for cheap. Up to them though. Top shelf work as always.

You make it look easy! Good job!

nice work

I ran pallets and pallets of wire at a shop I worked at and we pretty much always pushed not pulled, can't complain with results like that! Thank you for sharing!

As always. Learning from your videos. Thank you.

I have watched from the beginning of your channel and man you have really improved the camera angles and video quality!!! Bravo sir exceptional work.

Good man wiping off the serial number plate after painting. I seen the paint hit it and as a mechanic I thought “nooooo” but then realized that you are better than that! Good work

Have welded for 50 years and only wish I could weld like that.

Love watching you work , please more videos , Alan Thomas

Awesome job bud love your vids

"A grinder and paint makes me the welder I ain't " 😂 Good video, nice setup on the stands. Thanks for sharing

Oh ! look , he's unwelding ! Nice work , as usual !

Love your humility .

Send It !!!

Another great video, thanks for taking the time to produce it!

Love it!!!!!

Sweet job. Beautiful welds, Isaac. Cheers! Whipple

Apparently, from this fellows comments, I am just too damned easy to please because I don't see anything wrong or less than perfect that this fellow does. His on the fly engineering is perfect for every situation and he is obviously working steadily with the best production rate rather than the super fast haphazard work ethic. I am no troll and I think those that don't like his work may need to stick to their own work instead of criticizing a man that works for a living instead of watching youtube videos on their mom's couch.

A decent knotted wire brush I find pretty good for stripping off paint and light rust, then I go at it with disks, damn things are getting more expensive for quality disks, cut-offs and grinder disks now a days. Then cleaning with acetone or brake clean might get the contaminants in the metal pores. Maybe the weldments had some kind of treatment on them to keep from rusting on the parts shelf than the rear housing. I hate making BB's. Looks good Issac and enjoyed the welding tour and catching the gun arc patterns. Thank you for your time Issac.

Thanks for sharing this video. It was very interesting

A can of black paint covers a multitude of sins! Great welding as always.

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Issac I would love to hear some more about why you decided to preheat and any tips you can give as far as knowing it is hot enough but not too hot. Great work as always. Thanks a million!

Back when I was at MHC, we had a guy called the axle dr. Awesome guy, he’d travel from WY to CO, NM, NE, etc I’m a little sprinter and he specialized in arcing the spindles off and welding new ones on to the housings while it was still on the truck. Guy did amazing work, and I’m guessing it was pretty lucrative given the distances we’d call him for some quick work.

very nice work, great video with the arc shots too.. nice, thanks for the lesson.

His welds are like art to me....

The Ice Man knocks another out of the park. Regards from Scotland.

Just a quick tip, the drain plug is usually in the bottom, just playing around a wee bit.🇨🇦

Nice job!!👍🇺🇸

This video is the best representation of puddle control I have seen. You should make another edit for that purpose. Excellent as always.

old fella with a family history of being hard on things tore the torque rod holder on er right off the rear end stuck it back on ready to go nexed morning as you would say man o man !!😉