CRX Rear Mount Progress
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CRX Rear Mount Progress
I haven't been posting lately, but it's not because I've been idle--I've been welding instead of writing. I'm home sick from work today, though, so I finally have a few moments to detail my progress on the broken rear mount and torn rear crossmember that I discovered on my '89 CRX Si B16A hybrid.
The first photo shows the broken Place Racing mount. I'd heard that Place Racing has a lifetime guarantee, but I guess not; I contacted them, but never got a response. Their web site is under construction, and that's never a good sign. And so I just punched the polyurethane bushing out of the broken mount and started welding.
The second photo shows the initial repair. This corrected the original break, but it left the mount vulnerable to concentration of stress in the area of the bend. The third and fourth show my solution: To add another section of flat stock on one side to engage the second set of threaded inserts in the crossmember, and welded bolsters connecting the flat bracket to the bushing housing. It's not my place to tell Place Racing their business, but I think they should have done these things from the beginning. Anyway, the final photo is the finished mount, with the bushing reinserted and paint applied.
Thus spake Zarathrustra: Break now, motherfvcker.
Troy
1989 CRX Si B16A
Squalor, Austin, Texas
"Let the dead bury their dead." -- Jesus of Nazareth
The first photo shows the broken Place Racing mount. I'd heard that Place Racing has a lifetime guarantee, but I guess not; I contacted them, but never got a response. Their web site is under construction, and that's never a good sign. And so I just punched the polyurethane bushing out of the broken mount and started welding.
The second photo shows the initial repair. This corrected the original break, but it left the mount vulnerable to concentration of stress in the area of the bend. The third and fourth show my solution: To add another section of flat stock on one side to engage the second set of threaded inserts in the crossmember, and welded bolsters connecting the flat bracket to the bushing housing. It's not my place to tell Place Racing their business, but I think they should have done these things from the beginning. Anyway, the final photo is the finished mount, with the bushing reinserted and paint applied.
Thus spake Zarathrustra: Break now, motherfvcker.
Troy
1989 CRX Si B16A
Squalor, Austin, Texas
"Let the dead bury their dead." -- Jesus of Nazareth
