Alloy Wheel Welding / Cracked Alloy Wheel Repair (Aluminium TIG Welding)

Quick step by step guide of welding an alloy wheel. Sorry no proper welding footage. (Using cheap Chineese single phase TIG)

A weld on an alloy is always gonna be a weak spot due to the way aluminium behaves with heat, but I do a lot of these and I’ve never had one come back cracked again apart from rare occasions where it’s obviously been physically hit hard again. What I didn’t show on this video is that I do multiple passes, before adding any material I have the wheel preheated with the torch and welded with parent metal only to make sure of no inclusions. I’ve got my own techniques to stop the weld being a stress point as much as possible, but it is what it is. I do like to think that I do them to a better standard than 99% of other people out there welding rims, some that I’ve seen are horrendous and I’d never have let them out the door if I did them.