DISCONNECT TO WELD QUESTION

A story: Back in the late 70's the striker post was cracking out of the sheet metal on my 68 340 GTS, 4 speed. My brother welded it with an arc welder-that's all we had available. It fried the mainshaft bearings in my 4 speed. After cleaning the bearings you could see where each ball fried into race, both inner and outer. That sucked!