Ox Body bed hinge

bed hinge replacement and crack repair on an Ox body rock bed for Kenworth triaxle dump truck

[@williamthomas9463]

I noticed your ground clamp! Believe it or not, I’ve been making my own for the last 15 or so years. Same design, only I use what I call the vise-grip “duckbill” style clamps. Works great on pipe. I came up with it out of necessity when I used to install a lot of pipe handrails for a fabricator.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Here I thought I was the 1st one to make them. Lol. I got the idea after I broke 1 of the Tweco spring action clamps. I prefer the vise grip style beause it gives a tighter connection and chews through paint with no trouble

[@johnmcgowan9903]

Again NICE work, very formative. LOVE IT

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you and thank you for watching

[@gillihansmobilewelding]

Awesome job, great info, and nice looking welds! Keep em coming.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you. And Thank you for watching. I'm working on more right now. Lost a bunch of footage when I switched phones, so kinda starting over again, but that's ok

[@robstuckey]

Excellent video, thanks

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you and thanks for watching

[@FarmingFixingFabricating]

Good work

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you and thanks for watching

[@EdwinReyes10]

Nice job.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you. Thank you for watching too

[@tonym109]

Seems to me if the operator had been inspecting the unit from time to time that wouldn't have happened 🤔 Nice work 💪🏾

[@NAWeldingandFab]

I agree with that statement, but literally nobody in the US bothers to check that pin. Thank you for watching

[@506curtis]

Nice work sir

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you and thanks for watching

[@hubertrobinson8825]

Good job

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you and thanks for watching

[@cab8188]

Great video John, It seams like the manufacturers just weld enough to get there product out the door anymore.!

[@NAWeldingandFab]

I fully agree. I find it disgusting honestly. Made in USA used to be a good thing

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you for the compliment on the video and thank you for watching. I hope I didn't make it too long, but I had a bunch of ground to cover and I don't like 2 part videos.

[@cab8188]

@@NAWeldingandFab People that are into repair work like to see the work and most of all the thought process ,hell I've watched it twice already !

[@NAWeldingandFab]

@@cab8188 that makes sense. I too enjoy the details. Thank you again for watching

[@arthomasintegrateddesigns402]

I use Techniweld 7018. They weld almost identically as the old Atom Arc did before Esab bought them out. I highly recommend them.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

I've run some of their 3/32" 7018 before and I liked them. Problem is, I only have 1 LWS in my area that even carries them, so I just went back to Excalibur

[@arthomasintegrateddesigns402]

@@NAWeldingandFab I'll weld with the Excalibur, but I hate them. They are the stickiest 7018 I've ever put in my holder. I've repaired some of the Ox Bodies myself. I had to replace that piece of 11/2" x 3" x 1/8" tubing under the bed behind the dog box with a piece of 2"×4"×1/4" tubing. I don't know what engineer had the bright idea to make those main runners from 2"×8"×1/8" tubing either. That's the main reason for the cracking around those crossover pipes under the bed too.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

@@arthomasintegrateddesigns402 big construction company I used to work at had about 200 ox body dump trucks in the fleet and I agree with you. Ox body engineers are about useless. Can't blame it all on them though because I've been able to get their designs to last a good long time just by fixing the bad welds and welding all the way around the joints instead of leaving the garbage downhill porosity filled MIG beads in place with none of the flat or overhead even touched like they come from the factory. Lol

[@PatriotWeldFab]

OX Bodies has a recall on these hinge plates. Give them a call. They have a kit that they'll provide for the repair.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you. That's probably why they sent the different "old style" hinge system I installed.

[@jsschwartztube]

Hey Brother hope you're doing well. I'm on my 3rd Ox Bodies repair. Looks like some things could be improved in the engineering side. One question: those round cross pipes underneath are only welded to the doubler plates but not the actual shell. I've been removing the fillet weld around the pipe (air arc) and welding all 3 parts tying them together, requiring less reinforcement such as your example here. I wonder what your thoughts are here. Strange thing is I haven't found any discussion on these issues. Sorry for the long message. Thanks for the videos Man I love this stuff! Jody S. Schwartz Columbia, Tn

[@NAWeldingandFab]

I second the need for engineering improvements and I also weld all 3 parts together in some cases. This 1 was just bad enough to require extra. Ox body used to be a top notch bed in the 80s and 90s, but just like every other American manufacturer, they dropped quality into the toilet and flushed

[@McNeillWelding]

Nice looking repairs. I have replaced those hinges before, they’re a lot of work! Do you have a helper or anyone that works with you or by yourself? Thanks for the video.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you. To answer your question, it's just me all alone except when I need a spotter or an operator so I can spot. In that case, I can usually find someone to help. In this case, the company mechanics returned from lunch, so I got 1 of them to operate the excavator while the other one watched the passenger side and I watched the driver's side. It went pretty smoothly. Thank you for watching

[@McNeillWelding]

@@NAWeldingandFab thanks for the reply look forward to your next video

[@endall6783]

I loved your post thanks. First thing I thought of when you said you went home was Forest Gump and Bubba "I want to go home". Was the driver of the truck Rosie?

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you for watching. The truck driver is a 50 something year old guy who could destroy an anvil in a sand pile, but this 1 wasn't completely his fault. Lol

[@johnw4590]

Yikes! What does the scope look like? I never saw hinge damage like that unless it hit a bridge

[@NAWeldingandFab]

By scope, I'm guessing you're talking about the hydraulic cylinder that lifts the bed. If I'm correct in my guess, then the cylinder was fine. What happened was the pin that secures that cylinder to the bed fell out, so when the driver dumped the bed, he literally dumped the whole bed.

[@ls2005019227]

Nice repair! Had me cracking up....."swaying like Rosie's chair" & crack with Hunter Biden..... So you don't like the ESAB 7018's; are you back to using Excaliburs? I need to try the Excaliburs, but have only used the Hobart H4R 7018's so far (just bc that's all the LWS has in stock).

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you and thank you for watching. Esab does make another 7018 that folks seem to like, but none of my local suppliers have them in stock, so I've never tried them. I've run those Hobarts before and they're ok, but I did go back to Excalibur this last time I bought another 50lb can because they're still better than anything else I've burned.

[@jojocono4887]

We always called that a scarfing tip...

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Wash tip, scarfing tip, gouging tip, all the same thing. Just depends on where you are in the world when you learn it. Kinda like folks in the southeastern United States call pretty much all carbonated soft drinks "cokes", while northeasterners call them "pops" and midwesterners call them "sodas".

[@jojocono4887]

@@NAWeldingandFab my dad used to tell helpers that tip is for cutting around corners ......I have ran miles of that cheap esab...a rod oven will help a little...it's my belief that it swets in the black plastic container if left in the sun.. I noticed you didn't preheat ....that rod burns better for me when I preheat....happy burning

[@NAWeldingandFab]

@@jojocono4887 shouldn't have to preheat 1/4" material to run 1/8" 7018 at 120 amps without trouble, so those rods aint for me. Funny joke your dad said on the wash tip though. I like that 1. Lol

[@jojocono4887]

@@NAWeldingandFab I agree with that statement...you shouldn't have to..but.that rod sucks so bad it's almost required...and I'm betting if you think back ...about the 3rd rod she kinda smooths out and runs a little better.. weld prep is everything with that crap...next time you have to run it..try cooking the rust out with a rose bud...happy burning

[@NAWeldingandFab]

@@jojocono4887 no, they pretty much sucked the entire time regardless of surface prep. That's why I went back to Excalibur. Lol

[@josephsantoresr897]

You cut the whole angle iron off, when all you had to do was remove the four broken ears

[@NAWeldingandFab]

I also put the whole new angle iron on because the old one was damaged and the ox body hinge replacement kit came pre-assembled

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Customer supplied parts ordered straight from ox body. Sure, I could have just replaced the plates and left the angle, but the angle was bent where the bed part of the hinges made contact as the bed flipped off backwards and ox body doesn't offer just those plates, so I would've had to custom fabricate 4 identical plates in the field, remove the old ones, install my new ones, and then the parts of the hinge that were attached to the bed would still have been too damaged to use, so I would've had to fabricate those new too. Quickest, cheapest, and best overall option was to order the whole hinge assembly from ox body, cut the old one off, clean up the frame, and install the new assembly. So, that's what happened. Aint my first dump truck and hasn't been my last. These folks call me and pay me to fix their equipment properly, so I aim to give them the highest quality, longest lasting repairs possible

[@josephsantoresr897]

@@NAWeldingandFab would it been to much fabrication to make those parts with all the material I see in your shop? Because the part from Ox is junk, just like the original , too light of material . When jobs like that come in use you're head and make it better? That's advertisement for you when people look to see what you've done! Worked for me never even had a name or number on my welding truck but always kept busy. Just wish they had these go pro cameras when I was working. Makes it nice to document what you do. And don't think I'm critiquing your work, I just asked a question. And after you answered it I realized who was the dummy there ! But no problem there with customers like that, they help towards your kids college funds. Lol.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

@@josephsantoresr897 I don't have a shop. Sometimes, I have the luxury of being inside someone else's shop, but I'm strictly mobile. The new hinge system that ox makes is plenty strong enough to handle the load and they can build that cheaper than I can build a much stronger version, so it'll be fine.

[@rbrown264]

why not carbon ark it

[@NAWeldingandFab]

I do on some things, but that wash tip makes it real easy to spot a crack that I might not have seen using the arc gouger. Sometimes, I'll be cutting an old weld out and happen across a crack in the base metal that I didn't see without the wash tip turning the area red.

[@joshmurray4427]

Not Ukraine bidens not gonna show,I like the vise grip ground!

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Lol. You're right. And thank you. I got tired of buying the ones from the stores. These hang on tight and they last. That's why I made them.

[@luke-bookbear]

Good work. I hope Hunter didn't show up.

[@NAWeldingandFab]

Thank you. He didn't. Lol

[@louispulice9360]

Lose the music

[@NAWeldingandFab]

So you'd rather hear a bunch of wind and other random, wierd, sped-up noises?