Been testing the neighbor’s good will the past few days, been working on fixing the rally FX. Here’s the failure. Drew up plans for plates to repair those flanges. My thought was to cut them out and weld the plates in. Took the plans to Universal on thursday and they had them donr friday, but with work and traffic I could get there in time to pick them up. In the meantime I thought about the repair some more. I decided that my initial plan put too much at stake on my skills at welding and fabricating to line everything up and make it strong. The plan now was to weld the plates on the side of the existing flanges. There’s no clearance issues and I’d just have to source longer bolts.
In the time before I could get the new plates, I ground out the damaged holes and welded in some washers to fill in the gaps that would have been under the new plates. Picked up the plates this morning and here they are, simple pieces. Took the cutting disc and grinder to them to mod them for the new plan.
Here’s my modified plates and one of the prepped strut casings. Bolted them up to spare hub to ensure fit and zapped some tacks to hold it together, then went to town with the welder. I have to say, welding is pretty neat.
Hopefully my welds don’t suck. As long as they hold good, this end product looks solid.
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