derekf
03-14-2008, 03:19 AM
My El Camino has over 500,000 miles on it (what can I say, for many years it was my only car and everything was hundreds of miles away).
Over the past 20 years, the rear mount for the front LCAs has torn free on both sides. In both cases, I've taken the car up to a frame shop and they've welded the mount back where it should be.. but I can't help but think that grippy tires and improved handling will do nothing but put even more stress on those brackets.
The thought that I was having was to use 1/8" plate to create gussets to connect the mounts to the frame both ahead and behind the mount on the bottom, and maybe some on the top as well.
However, I am not an engineer; some things that seem to make perfect sense to me probably don't actually work that way. So... good idea? Bad idea?
Over the past 20 years, the rear mount for the front LCAs has torn free on both sides. In both cases, I've taken the car up to a frame shop and they've welded the mount back where it should be.. but I can't help but think that grippy tires and improved handling will do nothing but put even more stress on those brackets.
The thought that I was having was to use 1/8" plate to create gussets to connect the mounts to the frame both ahead and behind the mount on the bottom, and maybe some on the top as well.
However, I am not an engineer; some things that seem to make perfect sense to me probably don't actually work that way. So... good idea? Bad idea?