Help Wanted
Come on guys, where is your sense of adventure. Thinking as a young man buying an affordable A Body, not everyone has 10 grand to throw out on a fixer upper, so you fix what you find.
Get her up on jack stands, back off the torsion adjusters 5 turns, support the tranny.
Drop the bolt in center trans cross member. Now cut off the end of that rusted torsion boxing off clean at the torsion bar casting and the bottom rust, leaving the torsion assembly in.
Now floor Jack and a block of wood, easily jack that torsion assembly back up in place with the tension off the torsion bars. Now weld in the clean replacement crossmember tip to the torsion assembly, and bolt in the trans cross member to support the trans again. He has access to parts car at pick and pull and batt power sawsall.
Worse case senario just rebuild the crossmember tip with 1/8" flat mild steel pieces and weld that back in. Can make some carboard templates off the other side for the pattern pieces.
Down on her wheels driving again.
Come on guys, where is your sense of adventure. Thinking as a young man buying an affordable A Body, not everyone has 10 grand to throw out on a fixer upper, so you fix what you find.
Get her up on jack stands, back off the torsion adjusters 5 turns, support the tranny.
Drop the bolt in center trans cross member. Now cut off the end of that rusted torsion boxing off clean at the torsion bar casting and the bottom rust, leaving the torsion assembly in.
Now floor Jack and a block of wood, easily jack that torsion assembly back up in place with the tension off the torsion bars. Now weld in the clean replacement crossmember tip to the torsion assembly, and bolt in the trans cross member to support the trans again. He has access to parts car at pick and pull and batt power sawsall.
Worse case senario just rebuild the crossmember tip with 1/8" flat mild steel pieces and weld that back in. Can make some carboard templates off the other side for the pattern pieces.
Down on her wheels driving again.
