doc_honda

84 Trans Am. The rear upper strut mount has broken off or poked through the unibody. Web searches have not reviled any useful fixes. I was hoping to find a brace to have welded on. Any ideas on how to repair this?

sofakingdom

iTrader: (1)

There's no struts back there; only shocks.

That aside, it happens all the time. No telling how many of these cars are actually driving around like that. It's basically inevitable; and the better you maintain the shocks, the more likely it is to happen. After all, if the shocks are the usual wore-out stock limp-d*** crap that most cars have, they don't ever put any force on anything anyway.

The cure is acoupla big thick washers welded on, one inside the car and one on the underside. Fender washers with a hole the same dia as the hole in the original sheet metal which if memory serves is about 5/8" or ¾", and near about 2" in dia, work great. Extreme precision is not required.

doc_honda

Thanx for that. It had poked through some year ago and I did the washer thing. So it looks like I'll need some local fabrication help to bolster that area up!

mrontime

spohn sells a qa1 coil over kit that has a plate that welds in the stock spring location to hold it in, that is what im doing and would do if i were you... just my two cents

TylerSteez

iTrader: (3)

just get some flat stock, 3/16 thick would be fine. drill the correct size hole for the shock to go through, cut to fit, weld prep, and weld in place.

mrontime

just patching it doesnt fix the issue. if your going to patch it you should spread the load out on the area some and actually repair the problem, otherwise it just happens again at the least oportune time. seems like a combination of the two washers and the sheet would work best to keep it from happening again if you were just gonna patch it