Sway/ ARB rear mounts.

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Well,
Earlier this year I installed the Eibach ARB kit, very nice pieces, larger than the stockers by a fair margin. I knew from reading that the stock mounts were tissue paper grade and would rip off in short order. They did. I was under the car looking at something and noticed the passenger side looked like it had messed with a lawnmower, bits and chunks.
Oh well dragged out the die grinder, and the 4” disc grinder, notice a theme? Grinding, yuk. Well I had purchased a set of the WEVO RARB consoles, for this very occasion 4-5 years ago, very nice pieces. Cut all the remaining sheet metal mounts, yes, formed sheet metal. The engineering crew really dropped the ball on this call. Wire wheeled about 16 lbs of undercoat/rubber crap off around the area of the mount, they didn’t cheap out on that application, in areas it was 1/4” thick. Wadda mess. Broke out the old trusty Miller 175 wire squirter and melted them in place. After that side cooled I got my bucket of seam sealer out and slathered the stuff like it was going out of style, I think the dog even got a dose. Due to a lack of enthusiasm that ended day one.
Day 2, the other side was sitting there all pristine, so I attacked it with the grinder army and took everything to base metal. All of this was done using tape measures and eyeball placement. The WEVO instructions weren’t too detailed, now I know why. It doesn’t take 6 pages to say cut the old crap off and weld the new ones in about the same place.
The whole process was more and endurance exercise on how much undercoating and grind debris you can handle. After the driver side cooled I smeared a bunch of seam sealer and painted the whole mess with black paint to match the road grime and grease already there.
While I was removing the old welds and metal I was assessing the quality of the welding(mig). The passenger side was well done good penetration nice welds, too bad the mount disintegrated. The driver side was factory original, I could tell from the undercoating and color. Once I got the undercoating the welds looked like they were done by a drunk meth head. Cold welds, crappy penetration and the stitching was 2/3rds of the other side. What he lacked in technique, he made up on sheer application of wire, gobs. I would add pictures but the site keeps hiding my pictures, I upload them but they don’t show.
Oh well that was my couple days of fun.

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JWE makes a great kit and I have it installed on my race car:

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