Welding Broken Transmission Bellhousing - Aluminum (Not Steel, woops 🤣)

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[@BlaserBuilds]

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[@jamestyndall529]

Cast aluminum can be hard too well because of the porosity but welding steel to aluminum is a trick

[@Nostradamus_Order33]

You welded steel to Aluminum? What type of Harry Potter sorcery is that?

[@BlaserBuilds]

@@Nostradamus_Order33 it's aluminum, misspoke on the voice over.

[@LegendJ0e4]

hi how reliable is a welded gearbox? i have a hyundai veloster 2013 1.6L. and how much should i be charged for it? overall they've replaced the flywheel, clutch and welding the gearbox, which they're charging £800, is that a good price?

[@MikeY-nh2we]

Still that's good work dude, cast anything is a bitch to weld let alone aluminum A+ 😁

[@mcfero1]

The motion raceworks cast stainless wastegate merge welds like butter. Made me look like I knew what I was doing.

[@Tap_rack5.56]

@@mcfero1 that’s prolly cuz Ty (Cletus’s welder) helped design it or someone

[@stacygoff8930]

No idea what y'all are talking about cast aluminum is just as easy to weld as any aluminum

[@machineman8388]

@@stacygoff8930 because it depends on the quality of the casting, most cast aluminum is junk thats filled with impurities and sand from the casting process and as soon as you really open it up these huge pores start showing up. I dont have that much experience welding aluminum but im assuming if you get some plate and try that, you won't have nearly as much junk in it

[@stacygoff8930]

@@machineman8388 I have Recycling yard down the street from me that had a fairly careless worker that used to remove Engines & Transmissions it was pretty much job security for me welding transmission housing in Bell housings and so on back together. You said it yourself you don't have much experience with this. I do. About 40 years worth. Not saying everyone's experience is going to be the same

[@jeffallen6754]

Thirty years welder here, you did a hell of a good job.

[@bobbywalter5320]

This guy is lucky to have you working on that ride ....

[@googleuser6440]

Cast dose not weld,its just filling up the hole

[@fuhkoffandie]

tell the guy the next time you pull the transmission off, make sure you take all the bolts out, so that way your mechanic doesn't have to weld anymore ears on your transmission. this happened to my friend, back when I was a kid in high school. he was taking the transmission out of a 72 Camaro, and he left one bolt still in, and literally broke the thing off, while prying it apart. that's how you break one ear off. 😁👍🏻

[@BlaserBuilds]

🤣🤣

[@mysoap23]

This can also happen if you try using a bolt to pull the transmission in when it isn’t exactly lined up

[@myadhdSquirel]

​@@mysoap23 Big oof moment, I've never had that problem, if it doesn't slap together by hand don't force it, I've seen my dumb ex brother in-law rip his transmission out with a skid steer. Then when he put it back in I think he put the clutch in backwards, it was super stiff and grinded gears when shifting after he put it back together, and he's certified in rebuilding transmissions lmao

[@rileywhite5091]

sometimes that top bolt doesnt wanna be found so theres only once choice left and u know what were about to do

[@repairdroid77]

Or be sure you tighten all of the bell housing bolts to spec before going off-road in your 4x4. All but one loose caused not only a broken ear but cracked flex plate too. It did sound cool for about a second. A V8 powered machine gun. I got lucky in that it made it the 45 miles back home. As a high school student and mechanic in training it was a painful lesson. As the saying goes, It's all in the details. I took the broken off ear and glued it to the dash (beater truck lol) and when a girlfriend asked what the hell it was I told her it was a reminder. I did tell my instructor about my screw up and he said that it was a good teaching moment. we wound up swapping all of the broken parts at the school with wrecking yard replacements and it was good. the transmission input shaft was luckily fine. I got lucky in that there was no other damage and we put the cracked flex plate up on the bay wall with a sign saying FIX IT ONCE!! I drove it for another 160,000 plus miles before selling it. 1977 K10 series Scottsdale step side.

[@hilljack5764]

dont sell yourself short man thats a nice weld

[@TastyLiberalTears]

one of the things that I always admired about my old Mustang is that it had a removable bell housing

[@BPattB]

I went to your channel hoping to see an old Mustang. Well at any rate you can check my channel out for a nice 65 Mustang, I also currently have a 71 Corvette with a 454 Big block in my garage that I have made a couple videos of this car. There will be more content from this car upcoming so if this is your type of thing check it out.

[@b.c4066]

Yeah, why gm made so many th200, th350,th400, 700r4 without a removable bell housing don't make sense, especially when you realize they made them in buick-olds-pontiac bolt pattern, a common trans with removable bell would've made more sense

[@TastyLiberalTears]

@@b.c4066 i thought my sn-95 had a removable one because the T-5 manuals are notorious for blowing synchro's 😂😂😂

[@nickbeaucage4711]

You sir have actual skills

[@jacobmcdonald4218]

That scrap steel did pretty good on that aluminum 😂 But good fix man

[@Brakemann1]

Great job! I’ve welded hundreds of aluminum bell housing on hummers. Exactly how I did them twenty years ago.

[@BlaserBuilds]

Right on

[@Louis-qi1gz]

Rebuilding automatic transmissions 44 years , good job 👌

[@user-rn3rn6nl3h]

Beautiful work! Humble too. 👍👌

[@nicksandoval9147]

We need more people like this.

[@machobunny1]

That is way more perfect than almost anyone could do.

[@spelunkerd]

Having done this myself, I can attest to how difficult it is to weld oil saturated aluminum. Great work.

[@Danielbright1978]

Could have used you when I broke my bell housing! Nice work sir!

[@skookapalooza2016]

Nice work!!! 👍 You saved that customer A LOT of money.

[@tom-vs3lf]

Years ago I worked in a shop in Salt Lake city we did a lot of repairs on aluminum motor parts that were subjected to the salt in the Great Salt Lake. Definitely helps a lot to preheat and keepTIG welding back-and-forth you'll boil all the crap out of the Aluminum

[@gasNmudtv]

Awesome. Glad to see ppl fix this, most won't or worse they think u can't weld cast

[@tuckerdogglass5383]

A true artist in metal! Bravo!

[@riverrat8647]

FYI: when the batteries die in that HF welding helmet, you can’t change them.

[@timstone5112]

Nice to see that some welders can actually repair things like this. Retired now, but still have burns from oxy/acet welding an allu sump in position on an exercise in Germany.

[@BlaserBuilds]

I'm not a Welder, just hobby stuff working on cars.

[@nFlames2]

I have had to weld the whole bellhousing back on that broke from the left side to right side. It's not that hard just takes a lot of heat I used the cutting torch becauise that's what I had. As you see it soften to the point it's going to drop off take the heat off apply the aluminum welding rod as one reheats it. Later that year guy totaled the truck jumping a ditch bent the frame like a U front to back. I was sure the weld must of broke in the accident I looked under the truck & weld was fine. Best way to fix that trans is cut a junk trans ear fit & weld.

[@tadyoshi3610]

We use to do this style of fix all the time. Great work man. I’d be happy with that job. $$$.

[@downtoearthconstruction7768]

Shattered my turbo 350 housing in 3 hand size pieces so a case of beer and a welding buddy helped repair the carnage. We arc welded it with aluminum rod and I believe he did so by reversing the polarity. That was 7 years ago and it’s still in one piece today.

[@williamowings6857]

Clean, Clean, Clean. 😊👍 Welder-Machinist....I like to use the TiG torch to preheat heat and float contamination to the surface to hit with a wire wheel. Laser themometer gets you to ideal temperature and grab a filler rod and sew it up. Hope that's helpful for other projects and people.

[@davidt5200]

Considering how dirty and difficult that actually is. You did just fine

[@amd65ak47]

When it's broke and you can fix it and it works. Then it's not stupid

[@Anderslam2]

Excellent job man! Love seeing fixes

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks! 👍

[@marvinaguilera8243]

I was already holding on without it you’re just made it prettier

[@saltyballs1041]

Impressive prep work and final product, thanks for sharing

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks for watching!

[@Stahodad]

Wow, Nice Work Man!

[@Carstuff111]

I have seen things like this thrown away because people think you can't possibly fix something like that. It was not unheard of in WW2 for planes to be flying with bullet holes patched on the engine blocks, and if the engine was bad enough, it was still repaired and then put into a tank.

[@donbrecker8982]

Great job , very professional!!

[@confuse9]

That actually looks like a GOOD weld on an aluminum bellhousing. I have used a pulsed MIG in the past - I think I just covered the dirt.... I had all the pieces from the crack (someone tightened down when the torque converter wasn't fully seated) I would say, there are some racing bellhousing that could have been fitted to the trans. Not sure on the cost difference.

[@gilj5347]

Hell yea nice work dude

[@nonameavailable7914]

Nice work!

[@Acme-Logistics]

Beautiful work

[@leonardsantana9722]

sir you must be Jesus because no one I know can weld aluminum. awesome job

[@jeff10049]

Nice work, Have repaired a few usually we were lucky enough to have the broken piece. I saw a few comments saying to take all the bolts out that may have been what happened but most of the time it's someone trying to pull it up with the bolts. What's really fun is welding up a broken hydraulic passage porous cast aluminum that's been in hot high-pressure oil its whole life.

[@jimmyj2563]

Check the dowel holes in the bel housing .. loose transmission will wear them and the alignment issues. Solution is longer dowels or sleeve the dowel holes in the trans case.

[@Mad.Man.Marine]

Nicely done man!!

[@BlaserBuilds]

Appreciate it!

[@stephenviggiano1610]

Amazing work

[@anthonyray2872]

Good fix👍

[@timg3584]

Looks great

[@leifnilsen6107]

Good job 👏🏼

[@MiBurnout]

Slick fix! 😤😤

[@fuhkoffandie]

I wish I had a picture of my buddy's 6.4l ZF transmission bellhousing out of his F-450 Super Duty. he couldn't get something bolted in, so he called me up, I went over there, and I was dumbfounded at what I saw. his transmission bellhousing literally exploded in about seven or eight pieces, and he had everything welded back together and put back in the truck! I was there to do some shit in the front of the motor, and he just got done putting that mess of a transmission back in. would you believe you drove the wheels off that truck after that? probably was stronger than that Chinese shit was to begin with.. 🤪

[@jonathanderbidge598]

I read the description and boy as a welder I almost shit bricks laughing thinking of you welding steel to aluminum haha

[@BlaserBuilds]

Yep, misspoke on the voice over didn't realize it... Im thinking about making a follow up actually trying to weld cast alumunum to a steel chunk just for sh*ts.

[@bradley3549]

One thing worth trying next time that I've had good luck with - weld some beads on that break BEFORE cutting and fitting the filler pieces. You can get all the smut burnt out and ground back and you'll get a lot less porosity deep in that joint.

[@cryptoking7093]

Great work actually!

[@derekv275]

Good stuff

[@BlaserBuilds]

Appreciate it

[@alanreynolds2287]

Impressive work!

[@micktepolt6276]

right on!

[@dredennis113]

By far the best cast aluminum welder I have ever seen. I thought I was good, but welding cast to steel is very impressive. And it actually bolted up. Just kidding. Nice job without cracking.

[@andrewmurphy8724]

Looks good.

[@nickmartinez7163]

Great job

[@xfhnhhgjbvcfg]

Just weld the transmission to the engine and it will be fine

[@stacygoff8930]

The problem with that you need a hickory / Teakwood blend of filler rod. And there isn't much of it around anymore

[@jackschneider4897]

Great job man

[@bradhawkins8546]

Good job bro!!

[@LuisRamirez-ts3rp]

Great efin job 🔥🔥🔥🔥👍🏽

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks 💯

[@LumpyFPV]

Hell yeah dude

[@joshsfanatics6083]

Good job man looks good

[@Iknowaboutroaches3350]

Dude Nice!

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks!

[@rudyramirez9577]

Nice!

[@Nothintoseehere88]

damn, ryan you have been busy doing all types of stuff nice.

[@BlaserBuilds]

Definitely doing stuff...

[@sean.379]

beautiful man

[@hunter19709]

Nice work

[@Wreckedekcoupe]

Nice job dude

[@davidwasicek9869]

One day welder here, you did a hell of a job. You should be proud

[@MarkoMygun]

Good job man

[@zacharybenes9743]

Makin' it work.......love it

[@unclejoe6811]

Nice job bro, looks real good

[@BlaserBuilds]

Appreciate it

[@jasonhancock5867]

Nice work 👍

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks 👍

[@Talk-_-Sick]

Nice job man!

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks!

[@BRD379]

Awesome nice work.

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@Waikatotek]

Yeah looks pretty good. Welding to that cast stuff is a challenge in itself.

[@BlaserBuilds]

It sure is

[@FSAUDIOGUY]

Good Fix Man! Not easy at all!

[@williamoneill100]

Great job.

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks!

[@irome2241]

Master of the craft.

[@RiverSLV]

Good work!

[@douglasstewart7164]

man that is a great job dude I was always told you cannot weld that cast aluminum but you sure did prove that shit wrong nice-looking job man good job

[@paulvillano8625]

Nice job !

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks!

[@harmonpatch6858]

Awesome

[@jklololol9691]

You can also run your tig torch over it to clean too really helps me when I do cast aluminum

[@tonycroteau9264]

Nice job 👍

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks 👍

[@Luna-dt1nt]

Nice job

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks!

[@Vuhjayjay68]

Nice !!!!!

[@kennethsmith3260]

That's pretty nice, definitely looks better than it would if I done it... and your right, it only has to work....

[@fuq6939]

Looks good works good that says a lot good job 👍👍

[@BlaserBuilds]

Thanks 👍

[@machineman8388]

Nice work man great job

[@michellecarew7778]

Likemur work great job!!!!

[@teddyspaghetti9317]

good work

[@BuildBreakFix]

Will crack off week later. 110% positive lol

[@samrosenthal6362]

You killed it …

[@Jake39019]

What helps is going over the cast with the tig where you plan on welding. Just go over it until you get that shine on the aluminum and it'll make welding it 10x easier.

[@Mike-zk4vg]

Repair don't replace ! Good job

[@jaredbasque5908]

Really happy to see a positive comment section. Can’t weld dick but I know that’s more than perfect for this job. Good work!

[@joeford2127]

good fix

[@Darkhorse393]

Good job