Aluminium doesn't distort anywhere near as much as mild or stainless if at all, coupled with there being a bush in there I can't see a problem with that .Reckon you could weld them...but then you probably get into remachining the insert seats from heat distortion, and is it really all worth it...!?!
Aluminium doesn't distort anywhere near as much as mild or stainless if at all, coupled with there being a bush in there I can't see a problem with that .
As for Italian alloy being ****, if you abuse a component it will fail, this has absolutely nothing to do with the original material, just the Neanderthals who hit them with hammers because they don’t know any better.
Definitely not, replacement one winging its way to me now. Don’t want to come off the road on mountain section of TT track while giving it the beans.Has some sledge-hammer mechanic pounded on it? Hammering was the old method of changing ball joints. If it looks like someone has hammered on it you have your answer (hard to tell from the pictures). The ridge is not a weld it's part of the casting process. The cracks look consistent with hammering on the ridge. I would not drive the car with cracks like that.
i would tend to agree, its not worth taking a risk just rpelace it and move onGot in a bit closer, you can definitely see a hairline crack running all the way down the right hand side
oh no! already need wishbones on my old 3200 - now it might need hub carriers? Need to run a spreadsheet to see if it is worth saving.