heavy85 Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 I've noticed that nobody I can find pictures of who welded a tube between the rear strut towers used a backing plate to weld them to (poor wording but oh well). Is there a reason for this or rather lack of this? Thanks Cameron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nat0_240_chevZ Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 yes poor wording, yes it is recommende to use a doubling plate. weld the bar to the doubler heavily and the plate to the body taking care not to burn through and make holes/craters. nato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted January 31, 2007 Share Posted January 31, 2007 The strut tower has a thick plate just inside of the sheet metal which is probably .100" or so thick. I just turned the welder up and burned through to the thicker plate, so I didn't feel the extra piece was necessary. I had also screwed it up several times before I got it right, so I was about done screwing with it when I welded mine in. I had tried to weld the bar in without cleaning off the mill scale once and it just came out terrible, so I cut that off then tried again and cut the angles on the bar the same way on both sides... DUH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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