Well, I pretty much bought a 89 maro for $85, I have a problem though, its rather rusty underneath.

I was curious if there was a way to fix the arm on the driver side, that leads from the rear axle to the frame i believe. Where it was rusted through at the end of the arm that mounts to the frame/body. If you run it hard it makes a hell of a racket and hops underneath and beats, and I was wondering if there is anything i can do about this. Help Please? I'll be able to take some photos of this tomorrow and load them up.

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Chrisman622

Thanks!

 

Welcome to TGO. If the problem is with the lower control arm itself, you can simply replace it with a junk yard piece or with an after market version.

JamesC

 

Took it to a shop today, it is indeed the lower control arm, but it seperated from the body. (I can see carpet) They said take it to a body shop. Any type of DIY I can help this with? Heres a couple pics



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Just crazy glue it dude!




















j/k

But it looks like your $85 car just turned into an additional $2000 body work project

 

yea that's a LOT of rust...get a whole sh!tload of POR-15 while you're at it. what does the rest of the car look like?

 

holy crap, i dont think i've ever seen rot that bad.

the car is unsafe to drive, it could literally fall apart at any time, if the rest of the underbody looks like that, get rid of it and move on.

 

 

Your best bet would be use that one for any good parts and find a much less rusty car.

 

eh, I was more or less hoping to find a partial rear driver side floor pan torque box, if anyone has a decent site for that? A lot of the rust underneath is surface, some not so much. We just replaced the sway bar linkages & bushings (helped the ride a LOT)

any other suggestions than junking it? Runs real good. Can't say i have the money to find another f body lol

attached a few pics, it sat outside for 5+ months without going anywhere, finally fixed it and gave it a well deserved bath, looks much better now

(Plus the ignition key for my white one starts up the red one, haha)

 

Hard to tell from the second pic, but it looks like your rear "frame" rail partially missing. If you do start driving this more watch for fuel leaks due to vibration shaking your rusty fuel lines apart.

 

alright, thanks bm, anyone else have some ideas or websites for floor pans/ torque boxes that i can weld back in there?

 

classic industries has replacenemt pans, but they are expensive, so does hawks i believe. I dont know, however, if that mount in question is part of the floor pan. You will most likely have to cut the parts from a doner can in a junkyard.

You are look at a LOT of work to fix that part. Its not as easy as just welding a new LCA mount on.