Ya but they make lousy wall art.Still on my original 1988 pump. At this point, even the pump is antique and I kinda want to keep it
Ya but they make lousy wall art.Still on my original 1988 pump. At this point, even the pump is antique and I kinda want to keep it
I figured as muchPffft..
Did the pump fit the stock bracket he asks,.....Every bracket on my engine is custom..
Everything on that car is custom built, sometimes more than twice.I figured as much
Everything on that car is custom built, sometimes more than twice.
Even the owner has some custom parts now!
I ain't watch'n that crap, I get light headed pulling a silver outta my skin. Ya, kinda wussy I know.Hopefully, they only had to do my custom built stuff once though..
I can't watch this,..( it'll make me faint) but you guys can
What you're talking about doing I did to my convertible. Four years later it was a real crater in my frame rail. The car I had was driven all year round, in salt and snow, in the rain, and wasn't parked in a garage for 3 of those years. It hadn't collapsed but was all the way through by then. I would've fixed it but had other chassis issues.
A friend of mine found rust in his in the same area at the same time. He ground the spot out down to clean metal. Then he welded in a 2x3 patch over the hole. He didn't replace the hole section. Now, ( after about 9 years ) he's just starting to get a little rust in that seam above where your spot is.
Nick, you have a problem.
I'm betting that isn't surface rust, rather the rust has gone through from the inside. I might be wrong.
Take a medium size hammer directly to the center of the rust and see how it sounds when you strike it. Smack it fairly hard. Hit the other frame rail in the same spot and compare how it sounds. Plus, if it's solid, the hammer should spring back from the strike. If it doesn't, the hammer is just compressing the layers of rust and absorbing the shock.
Drop the k-member and look underneath too. As soon as i'm done plucking my engine that'll be the first thing I'll do.
I would hate to be in a bodyshop up north again for this reason. Simple repairs end up having incidental damage (rust) that can't be left unfixed.
Denial is a river in Cedar Rapids it seems.......Clearly I am in denial here Dave, but I do know its a problem. Im am just hopeful its not rotten inside. If it were from the inside, the shock tower would have rotted through before the frame rail. It is the other way around though. I will do the hammer test after work today. Damn it, who's idea was this engine swap anyway?
Edit: I should mention that while wire wheeling, I was able to get that strut tower metal down to clean metal before I sprayed it with rust converter. I just wasnt smart enough to take a pic until after I sprayed it. Anyway, we will see how it feels when the hammer hits.
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