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91talonts1
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- Dec 29, 2008
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Spencer,
North_Carolina
It had been awhile since I did anything with the car. Spent most of my free time for the last 2 years riding off road and the car pretty much sat for 18 months. Finally decided to get back into it.
I had a little rust in the driver's side strut tower that was always bugging me. It wasn't eating through the metal yet but I wanted to go ahead and get it out of there before it got worse. Wish I would've got more pics of the process but I wasn't thinking. We took out pretty much the entire underside of the tower to be sure there wasn't any more hiding in there.
This is just a cut I made to see what I was gonna be working with.
Strut tower with all the bottom pieces removed. We left the top in place to make it easier to get everything lined up properly underneath then did the top last.
The few pics I thought to get of the donor tower.
You can see most of my metal looks fine but you can also see the rust that was lurking in there that would've taken years to show up on the outside.
SEM copper weld-thru primer on the donor piece.
I had a little rust in the driver's side strut tower that was always bugging me. It wasn't eating through the metal yet but I wanted to go ahead and get it out of there before it got worse. Wish I would've got more pics of the process but I wasn't thinking. We took out pretty much the entire underside of the tower to be sure there wasn't any more hiding in there.
This is just a cut I made to see what I was gonna be working with.
Strut tower with all the bottom pieces removed. We left the top in place to make it easier to get everything lined up properly underneath then did the top last.
The few pics I thought to get of the donor tower.
You can see most of my metal looks fine but you can also see the rust that was lurking in there that would've taken years to show up on the outside.
SEM copper weld-thru primer on the donor piece.
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