Because it's Thanksgiving wknd in Canuckistan and I sleep fine without coddling you??

-Looks like your welds are a bit boogered up on the bracket, but should be fine.
-it is hard to start an arc in a tight spot, but any bead likely helps - you are getting both sides of the bracket, so it'll be fine
-I'd fill in that hole in the track bar - I would not purposely leave a flaw in a major safety component of your front end suspension - it's a weak spot in the welds.

You will get better with more practice. My biggest improvements came from a frame project I built for my parents business - lots of welds, I could weld flat on a bench or practice upside down, vertical etc. It took a lot of practice, but I can get the stack of dimes look and good looking welds that don't NEED grinding to be pretty now after a year of hobby work in the garage.

 

LoL...Happy Turkey Day!

Ok, that part of the pannhard wasn't shown in the earlier pics. You need to rectify that. It should have been completely filled before grinding it down. Easily rectified but you should keep an eye on those things so you don't have to go back at them later.

 

And the Panhard Bar kit is fully installed & road tested!!! Will post up the remaining build pics tomorrow, so heres a teaser...

 

Ok so first order of buisness was to fix the spot on the panhard bung weld that i missed, fill it, grind it down, inspect & paint...





Next was to fix the front of the bracket that was too far away to get a good weld & i came up with this piece of 1/4" steel that fit perfectly enough to get a good weld on the front of the bracket, a weld on the rear of the axle tube & 2 fish welds on the sides of it all & it worked out perfectly, grinded it down, inspected & painted...





Last piece of buisness was this piece that came with the kit...



...which i shoulda let someone else with more welding experience weld it in given the tight space, but i gave it a go & it turned out pretty ugly so NO pics! LoL! At this point, the bracket was welded in good enough for me to feel 100% that its a done deal, so i painted it & installed the dam panhard bar already!!!

 

Some odds & ends thru out the job that i had to deal with. One was the misalignment spacers similar to the gold ones in this pic...



...were not gonna fit in the Rock Krawler trac bracket i had on there as i had no intentions of using the bracket that came with the kit since the one i have in there is plenty beffy enough & is already in!! So, since those misalignments werent gonna fit, i grabbed the dremel & went to work...




I figured if i cut them right outside that lip, id have enough to slip into the heim for the bolt to slide thru & enough space to fit inside the RK trac bracket...






Will take pics of the brackets with the panhard installed in them tomorrow for a better view.