offroadordnance
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- Florida
Does anyone use one of these on a regular basis when welding or cutting rather than disconnecting the Batt, PCM, BCM, etc?? The unit I'm looking at is Goodall / Matson
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welding surge protector?
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boots4
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- california
Your supposed to unhook all that stuff before welding on your jeep? Oops....
RockMonkey
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- Salt Lake City
I never have, and have never had an issue, in many years.
- Location
- Rainy side of Washington
Keep your ground clamp as close to the area being welded as possible, make sure there is never a harness between the ground clamp and the weld, avoid using hf start on a tig rig without disconnecting and grounding nearby stuff, and you will be fine.
If you are using hf start - I would unplug the ecu, tcu, abs module, maybe instrument cluster and airbag controller on a 97+ if I was welding inside the body, and icm on a renix.
If you are using hf start - I would unplug the ecu, tcu, abs module, maybe instrument cluster and airbag controller on a 97+ if I was welding inside the body, and icm on a renix.
GrimmJeeper
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- Gardena, CA
I usually disconnect the battery, pcm, and alternator wiring. I don't know about the XJs but older chryslers used to like to fry the diodes in the alternator when you welded on the bodies :dunno: better safe than sorry.
MoparManiac
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- Amherst, NH
Since the battery has been hooked up on my MJ, I've yet to disconnect it for welding.
WebDog
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- Center City, MN
Same here, I always just put the ground close to the are I am welding... I have never had an issue and I have welded on at least 5 jeeps that way.
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