A corroded front member that is!!!!

 

Despite the worse that Britains weather had thrown at this front section our mighty welder won the day.

 

Really is worth inspecting your zed in this area as it is not just a section that hold the radiator in place, the tension rod arm brackets are secured here and the whole front suspension is reliant on there been no movement here.

 

The cost of a new front member and the two side brackets is more than £250 and then the cutting out and welding back in place is a massively labour intentive job.

 

So with afm air box, air con, rad and fan removed the work began, so bad was this one the rad supporting brackets had come away and these had to be re-fabricated, the section was cut back to its front edge that was still good metal and a new box section let in and seam welded.

 

The new member had to be drilled and nuts welded inside for the tension rod bracket fixings and a top plate welded over to secure the rad brackets.

 

When all done it still came out cheaper than a new member so all in a nice job, with acknowledgement to our tame welder Guy.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 28, 201015 yr by JeffTT

Nice work Jeff...!!

 

Once again, another ZX saved by Zedworld!

 

Richard:cool3:

Sorry but I would have just put a new/used one in!!:blink:

Sorry but I would have just put a new/used one in!!:blink:

 

Valid point but we work with owners budgets and in this particular case a lot of other work was done else where on the car and this issue had never been part of the original plan, we discovered the problem when we started the other work.

 

Jeff TT

Valid point but we work with owners budgets and in this particular case a lot of other work was done else where on the car and this issue had never been part of the original plan, we discovered the problem when we started the other work.

 

Jeff TT

 

Aye, I suppose it all comes down to cutomers budget mate.