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Topic Started: Oct 7 2010, 01:09 PM (827 Views)
jeff


Now that U notice this, tell me if this repair is new.
I bought another Metro that someone tried 2un-sucessfully weld.
Considered making my newbie 4 parts then got an idea: using Two 22mm sockets located on the front of each lower control arm,I cut & placed half " breaker bars on the VIRGIN frame area in front & above / & in front of the axle shaft. Then I welded on my Mullet's Possum Pusher (small diameter black pipe) @ a slight angle connecting each side 2each other. I'm pumped!! This Metro handles so much better, & my "new" sway bar is angled for oil & other service items.
Yes I know a photo would be nice; but I'm ignorant in that area.....feel free 2pm me .......this repair really easily garners new ground regarding Metro suspension repair imo. :rocker
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superduty5.9
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So you used a cheap set of tools to create a frame brace? You welded on 2 22mm sockets to the front nut on the control arm and you cut up some breaker bars to connect these sockets? My eyes don't always read what is in front of me. Is this what you did?
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jeff


Something like that. Think of a sister joist in carpentry.....was able to gain MUCH strength.
Rimbender Road gave no flex to the Metro; un-like before.
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cdmccul
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^^^^Ditto?
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mcmancuso
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That's an expensive brace in materials, plus now to get to the control arm you have to cut welds, wouldn't it have been easier and cheaper to make one that looks like this:
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jeff


Mcmancuso I dis-agree & here is why. My materials were gotten over years of salvage/translate $0.00.
My repair (including fab time) was just under 4hours, along with a couple of coffee breaks.
Not worried about cutting for service on control arms, I'll just re-install some sleeves.
Ask any here who have had breakage on a Metro while driving - I haven't - hence my discourse.
To me this gains MUCH strength due 2 added new location on SOLID material. I feel this is a SOLID safe addition to a tender zone.
(They don't like my disposable razor sharpener when I showed it either).
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superduty5.9
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Jeff you saw a weakness and solved it as you saw fit so what's wrong with that?
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Bad Bent
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If you have pictures - I'm a visual learner - could you upload them to any free picture site like http://imageshack.us/ or http://www.tinypic.com/ and just paste the URL (http address) here as a URL link? Basically any address not yours or a home PC computer can be made to work.

For fun, I like to use my computer mouse and put the arrow over a picture, like the ones above, and click the right button to get the location, copy it, view it, save it send it or make it my desktop pic. Depends on my mood. :-/
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mcmancuso
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Sorry I guess I'm not visualizing what you did...sleeves? I think that destroying 2 rather expensive tools and sockets to make something that can be made with <$5 in metal is a waste, whether they were free or not. you could have sold 1 breaker bar for more than the materials would have cost, and it wouldn't have joints in it.
Edited by mcmancuso, Oct 7 2010, 07:16 PM.
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mwebb
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FOG

so you have installed the rear mount for your
BELLY PAN

when do you plan on installing the belly pan and what are you going to use to make it ?
maybe some aluminum sheet hiding in your parts bin ?
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Rooy


jeff
Oct 7 2010, 01:09 PM
my "new" sway bar is angled for oil & other service items.
Just thought I'd point out that it's not a sway bar, nor does it function like one. A brace would be a better word.
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Johnny Mullet
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Adding the brace to my 1992 Metro made a huge difference in stability and steering jounce. When cornering and hitting bumps while cornering, the steering has more control.
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