Who's done front end collision repair? (NB)
While I had the nose off my car I pondered doing some of this myself since I bashed a civic when my car was still virginal. There's a cross beam that goes between the frame rails that's spot welded on and two bumper mounts that are bolted on. The latter are cake, but I'm curious if it's a big PITA to do the cross beam.
It's gonna require some welding and probably not spot welding since I don't have a spot welder. Thoughts? Here's the parts I'm talkin bout. They're behind the big plastic banana thing. https://www.miataturbo.net/forums/at...1&d=1175469341 |
take lots of measurements. i'd experiment on a friends car first lol
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shouldn't be difficult to do. drill out the spot welds, tack in the new one, spend the extra$ and let a shop check your cars alignment (if you think you hit that hard), finish the welds. wipe hands on pants.
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i've had the alignment done like a dozen times since then.. it's probably due anyway so i'll get it checked eventualy. it all looks straight beyond the cross beam.
I guess I should paint it all too since it only comes primed? |
what kind of welder you using?
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miggity mig
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Originally Posted by y8s
(Post 97982)
i've had the alignment done like a dozen times since then.. it's probably due anyway so i'll get it checked eventualy. it all looks straight beyond the cross beam.
I guess I should paint it all too since it only comes primed? |
well hopefully it's not going to move. it's sitting on jackstands at the moment and it wasn't hit hard enough to deform anything behind that (no airbag deployment). I suppose I can measure before and after from a known datum and jack it into place as needed.
a tweaked frame would suck. |
just take lost of measurements to make sure your square, but you should be fine
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