Lug, I have a question about if there is any clearance issues in the area of where you welded the new ball end on? I realize that you already cleaned up the weld (and it looks nice, BTW), but if there were no clearance issues, you could have skipped the cleanup of the protruding bead, leaving more meat for more strength. Not picking at you, just thinking about the next one that someone might need to do.
Carl
