Front crossmember

Any of ya'll ever look at your crossmember close enough to study the welds? Just blasted the crossmember from my 71BGT and, for the first time I examined the welds closely. Some of the welds were spot welded, some looked like stick welding and some looked like mig or wire feed welding. Also had some spatter and pits in the welds, not enough to threaten the crossmembers strength, but enough to dissappoint me in the factory's welding abilities. Just wondering if any of you noticed the same thing. On mine, it does not look like a Bubba repair, things are just too consistant, rather a lack of qaulity control at the factory

so are you gonna reweld 'em?

and did you get the email I sent you today? or did AOHELL reject me

having lived in England for a few years and knowing the work ethic of the blokes....take a look at the plate on the driver's door...it will tell you when the car was made...and just like the USA if the thing was made near a holiday/bank holiday/ or the factory shut down year change holiday for retooling then you may have a bad one or a the least a hurry up one. But on the good side it lasted this long, smack it a few times with a hammer and if the weld does not break forget it.

First of all you not looking at a Bently part. Remember our cars were kind of the working class sports car. Second the date your car was put together doesn't reflect the date the crossmember or any other part was made.

That is what I was thinking!!! Jerry, good to hear from you again!!!

i would think the welds from the factory are mig using solid core wire wether its done by hand or a robut i dont know.the holes you see are porisity in the weld, generaly speaking it takes a lot of porisity for a weld to fail the problem is over time with the stress and abuse a front end would take you could get a weld that fails.due to excessive porisity i would not reweld any mig welded joint using the mig prosess unless i ground out all the porisity first. mig will not burn through porisity

I've got no intention of rewelding it, although I could do a much better job than someone did during it's construction. The porosity I see is from bad welding technique, but not bad enough for me to grind everything back out reweld. If I was making a showcar where the crossmsmber was visable I might consider it, though. I was just interested if any of you had seen the same thing on your cars.

no problem gerry ,i didnt mean to imply you should reweld it,just trying to be of some help,i think when i get up to the front-end on my car i'll check how it looks

My crossmember has decent welds, but it does have some perforations ... quite intentional. Hope the image works.

And the other side

Holy swiss cheese! Does it whistle as you go down the street?