Need help and advice!

[Midnightsecurity]

So this control arm bracket has been bent for awhile, and it finally broke today:-( can I weld it back on or am I up shit creek ...

Any help or advice would be great! Thanks all

 

[Jester32]

Been there you can get axle mounts from rustys. Or build your own to be stronger. Can be welded. How's the weather up your way. Gunna be up there on Monday.

 

[xjmarc]

You could try to weld it but it would just break again. It's just sheet metal anyway. Find some aftermarket ones, most are 1/4" and much stronger. Rusty's is what I run but plenty of others are out there.

 

[Midnightsecurity]

Been there you can get axle mounts from rustys. Or build your own to be stronger. Can be welded. How's the weather up your way. Gunna be up there on Monday.

Ok awesome, so far it's been a great winter, hardly any snow(knock on wood) and fairly warm, how bout with you?

 

[Jester32]

Ok awesome, so far it's been a great winter, hardly any snow(knock on wood) and fairly warm, how bout with you?

Warm. Scared for camping season. Not enough snow. Gunna be a ton of fire bans

 

[Midnightsecurity]

Warm. Scared for camping season. Not enough snow. Gunna be a ton of fire bans

Ya not much moisture at all!

 

[Midnightsecurity]

So took it to a welding shop, $250 later he had it buttoned up solid was hard to find a shop that would touch it though!

 

[xjmarc]

Wow that's a lot for a couple of small welds that would take less than 10 minutes. I'm hoping you replaced the brackets and didn't pay them that much to reweld the factory sheet metal brackets.

 

[Midnightsecurity]

They had to straighten out the old one, do some grinding and re-weld

 

[xjmarc]

Hope it holds. I tried that with mine and it broke the first trip out. The factory mount is basically sheet metal and once bent won't ever be right and it's hard to get a good bead on it. That's why most replace them with aftermarket ones that are usually around 1/4" plate.

 

[Midnightsecurity]

So far so good, had it out a couple times, the welder reinforced it pretty well, so don't think it'll go anywhere

 

[Jester32]

Good to hear