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Regardless of your explanation, the Ford truck took the same abuse, and MORE abuse. A Tesla is not built Ford Tough.

What types or code the electrode do you use

Yeah and then he did much worse to the ford back end and it did not give out. The Cybertruck back end is not well made for shock loads.

Will these rods work vertical?

Beautifully explained. Even i understand.

Doesn’t matter a steel frame hitch would still not of snapped off just making excuses for a poorly design soon to be disaster

Nope, I trust the video Whistling Diesel did. You are bolting a steel piece onto an aluminum frame and I think if people tow a lot with the CT you will see more failures.

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new to the channel, thought you were going to JBWeld the hole for a minute...

Wait, you are not using spool gun ?

Cybercrap.

Stainless brush only for aluminum weld no contamination

Well now I wonder, what happens when your trailer is getting swayed in the wind? That cant be good lol, brittle material getting wiggled, thats how you break stuff off.

FORD fix or repair daily 😅

even jut that hit alone shouldent break the frame , this really is not a truck

Tesla doesn't heat treat those castings. They adjust the alloy to a proprietary alloy that doesn't require heat treating after casting.

The whole hitch is suppose to be steel. Shouldn't break off, bend maybe but breaking off is crazy. You cant cut corners on the foundation of a vehicle but it seems Tesla did

A steel frame breaks off from that kind of drop is bad design. I understand the cybertruck weighs a ton but it then should be able to take additional strain over standard vehicles. Frame may be too small. Regardless an issue.

Whistling diesel just disproved this

Watch WD’s latest video. The Ford took far more abuse and did not fail. There are no excuses.

When ordering a new sprinter, there is an option to add a 280A alternator and the price was only a couple hundred bucks. What's the difference? Is the one you installed OEM or after market?

Frames are never supposed to break. Bend maybe, but not break

Dude turned it into a junk yard transmission

Take it apart and clean it up bevel the weld area weld it clean it all up reassemble

It's a German Transmission..it should be Metric ..Yahh? 🇨🇦🤓✌️

10 dollar fix? What's your hourly rate? Sorry, 10 bucks don't buy much today, not even B.S. Ya get what you pay for. Zero prep

I see a commenter below said use JB weld. DO NOT USE JB WELD. That stuff is for amateurs and does not last. If you want a proper repair do it like this guy!

I have the same welder and you are just missing the c-clip that holds the drive wheel in place. You can see the groove that the c-clip slides into at 1:29.

300,000 pounds pulled by a Toyota Tundra is more impressive

While they might not want to spend too much money handling such a scenario, a few questions are raised: 1. What would have happened to a conventional truck? Yes the steel would bend, but would it bend to such a degree that it would total the car? 2. Could some low-cost changes allow the CT to handle such a scenario? Maybe a few adjustments to ensure there are sacrificial elements taking the force first? It seems noteworthy that the hitch seemed to be intact while the frame was compromised. Ideally you would want this reversed.

If a “truck” can’t handle people doing truck stuff then it’s not a truck. Now throw an old square body Chevy 4x4 against the Tesla cyber truck in the same test that broke the “hitch” and watch it blow the doors off that Tesla. The Tesla isn’t a real truck. There is no modern manufacture that produces a traditional truck anymore. If you want a traditional truck, then you have to go with something made in the 1980s and older.

And hitches see shock loads....thats why steel frames are better. They tend to give and take shock loads far better than any cast metal...especially aluminum!

For some reference, it got hit with 7000lbs of shock force from underneath the hitch. That is about 7 times its rated tongue weight capacity of 1,100lbs (from above). For reference, the gross weight of a trailer that would apply 7000lbs of tongue weight to the top of the hitch would be a 70,000lb trailer, when loaded correctly, not all that far off from a fully loaded semi truck). What is the big surprise here? Is it because it's the cybertruck that people have absolutely insane expectations? It seems like people will use any excuse possible to make fun of it, even if it's something as meaningless and ludicrous as this. I love WD but this is a huge disservice.

How much would it cost to build our own Cybertruk if we just weld stainless to a cheap used Model S?

These 'rigs' are NOT tough... I've seen minivans take more abuse than these.

V-Knurled drive roll is what you need to feed stainless wire. Same drive roll you use with flux cord wire. The drive roll used with solid Mig wire will crush the wire and it won’t feed through your gun properly you’ll hear it snap. That’s just from my experience and imo, correct me if I’m wrong and/or if you got more info on different SS wires and such. Thanks.

The trailer at the end 🤣 ...needless to say that guy probably lost his CDL that day.

Cast Aluminium has no sense of humour - very brittle. Steel may bend but won't crack unless you fatigue it.

Tesla does not perform any heat treatment after casting. :)

I caught the exact same thing. Hit it 1st. Still the jerk destroying the rear frame is NO good. I mean I hit kinetic rope pulls FAR harder than that repeatedly. Never had a frame just disintegrate. It's a problem for anyone intending to really USE the cybertruck as a truck. And the towing capacity tells me that alot of.people are going to be pushing it😂

So with a conventional frame it will bend vs sheer?

The whistlin diesel break is not that bad of a hit. I can do that all day in a normal pickup and not break it

From what you have said, welding to repair a "mega casting" is probably not a viable procedure, I guess. You certainly can't re heat treat an entire vehicle.

WD can be a meat head...over the top..but The vertical drop onto the trailer hitch, followed by the jerky towing, and breakage, are very realistic. If you like off road fun, but also use your truck, a trailer hitch is a necessary evil. I sometimes remove mine, but not always. Leaving a drop where I know it will hit, I will NOT be gentle- some forward speed is needed to prevent getting stuck when the hitch unloads the rear tires. I have slightly bent my frame doing this. Ductile steel is forgiving. Watching the WD video, I also thought that the vertical smack was the start of the problem. After it was broken, I was surprised at how fragile 8t looked. Towing that pulling sled? Repeat "30,000 lb!!" all you want...that was actually very gentle and controlled. Not much of a test. When that thin casting has had 4 or 5 northeast winters with salted roads, it will be completely untrustworthy- its shape looked like it would hold brine well. Maybe other mechanical or electrical problems will preclude these ever towing after many winters. Brittle materials do not belong between a tow vehicle and trailer. Ductility and an excess of material are needed- the instantaneous loads are way too unpredictable, but are certain to happen sooner or later...a pothole unseen while towing on a rainy night... ....or how about when a steel trailer hitch on a real truck is backed into the cybertruck in the grocery parking lot, cracking it...unseen..while you are inside squeezing melons or something? The same hit would not matter, if it were steel.

That's the gigacasting, no heat treating here look it up. That's a 9k ton press.

The things that truck went through were so beyond what any truck is put through in normal life. If you’re smacking the hitch on your truck the way it was shown in the video on the daily you probably are going to have your truck in the shop undergoing expensive repairs all the time no matter the brand. To say that the casting is weak and not suitable for everyday use is absolutely asinine. It’s simply just the typical Tesla/musk slander that is ever so popular today and has no real foundation or merit. Regardless, the WD video did show some other weak points of the truck as well such as the tonneau cover and door panels. It would be in teslas best interests to aliviare some of these issues with design changes in the coming years which is something they are more than capable of and have proven in the past.

Great video man I am still going to blame tesla because truck frames should be able to bend twist and even break and crack but still not rip off as easy as whistle dicks truck did I've punished my steel truck frames to no end my last ford diesel had the job of pulling out a stuck 1 ton dump from a back yard and couldn't get the traction to pull so we hooked another truck to the back of mine and gave it all hell. My por truck was twisted and pulled in ways it was never designed for but not one bit of damage or even alignment issue came of it

It's very simple, every time you plan to tow, just disassemble your Cybertruck and inspect the casting for cracks. It's so easy.

Looks totaled to me. What are the chances you are going to be able to buy that big piece of die cast from tesla?

I went to engineering school and we briefly discussed manufacturing processes like injection molding. I didn’t realize they could injection mold frames. I think of small plastic parts when I hear of IM. Thanks for the information! You are a metallurgical genius!