Rupunzell
Bernice Loui
Happens. Previously owner decided those holes are a MUCH better place to route the exhaust then under the rear suspension crossmember.
Heh... simply grind out the hole, pass the exhaust pipe and it's all good.. Except the sharp edges from grinding and heat cycling on a structural area of the body resulted in serious cracking. There has been so many post about, "break all sharp edges"... "deburr holes"...."fully understand why the engineers-designers did what they did before trying to alter it"... and all that.
Close up.
The back side is worst. The stress cracking was bad enough to cause one section of the OEM sheetmetal
to completely bust off.
I'll design a fix for this structural area of the rear structure. And no, there will be NO welding involved
as that kinda fix will make it this structural disaster worst than it already is. I'll deal with it when
the power train is out allowing better access.
Bernice
Heh... simply grind out the hole, pass the exhaust pipe and it's all good.. Except the sharp edges from grinding and heat cycling on a structural area of the body resulted in serious cracking. There has been so many post about, "break all sharp edges"... "deburr holes"...."fully understand why the engineers-designers did what they did before trying to alter it"... and all that.
Close up.
The back side is worst. The stress cracking was bad enough to cause one section of the OEM sheetmetal
to completely bust off.
I'll design a fix for this structural area of the rear structure. And no, there will be NO welding involved
as that kinda fix will make it this structural disaster worst than it already is. I'll deal with it when
the power train is out allowing better access.
Bernice