After wondering what the next piece of the chassis that might benefit from some attention was, i decided to have a play with the rear lower control arms. to make it easier to get to the mount on the chassis i started but cutting the body mount off, marking it accordingly of course, then i cut the control arm mount off, used a hole saw to cut out the crush tube in the rail
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after a fair bit of measuring, double checking, then checking again i re-drilled the hole for the crush tube and welded it in, tacked the mount back on in it's new home and gave it another measure to make sure it would all work out then zapped it all up properly.
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i just tacked the body mount back on in place until i make the arms and do the other side so i can run them through their travel arc's and make sure i don't have to modify it any further then i'll weld it up. I'll cut a couple of tubes and weld them in to fill in the holes i left and give the chassis back it's strength.
I cleaned up and painted the control arm mount on the passenger side, but didn't get a photo, i'll grab one tomorrow. I cut the driver side control arm and body mount off and cleaned up the rail, i'll weld the mount in place tomorrow so it matches the passenger side. hopefully i can find some steel tomorrow that i'm happy with to make the control arms out of and i'll get them made and see how it all works
i also had a little delivery in the post
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now i can finish the bracing i started making and there is no way the rear coil towers will move crack or bend like they are well known to. After a bit of research online I decided that the brackets alone wouldn't be enough but would probably only move the point that cracks and the only real solution is a solid link between the two coil towers. because i have already made the brackets and the fact that the towers are slightly bent up i think the brackets might give back the strength so i'll use them as well as the brace plate
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