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Spring plate mount area
So After 12+ years of working on my car for an hour here and there, I finally got the rust I could find fixed, added sc flares and got the shell painted. I thought I would freshen up the rear wheel wells by scraping them down and recoating and decided to pull the torsion bars and freshen up the spring plates as well and surprise. The section of the torsion tube inside the longitudinal area is rusted through on the bottom. Now I repaired the bottom of the longitudinals and I assume this is why that area rusted out but I'm not sure what to do about this. The area the bushings press against is worthless also. Anyone dealt with this?
I'm thinking about grinding the area out and adding some 18 gauge sheet metal but is there a better fix? |
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09-23-2009, 05:11 PM
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You can't just weld in new metal. You will have to cut out the torsion tubes and weld in replacements. I think there are a couple of threads about how to do this, including a post by John Walker. Not an easy task.
Post some pictures of the rust. That will help to make it easier to see what needs to be done.
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09-23-2009, 05:16 PM
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I'll try an get some pictures this morning.
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09-24-2009, 01:30 AM
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Here's apicture of the area. I didn't have a good way to gring the whole thing but the rest seems pretty solid. The tube itself has some surface rust around the area but looks fine.
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09-24-2009, 02:34 AM
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Well I did some more research and have found this has been posted before....sorry should have looked first. I'm going to go with the sleeve idea since that seems to be what others have done with similar amounts of damage. Thanks for the looks.
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