Doing the S-10 spindle swap and replacing front end components on wifey's 75 Skyhawk.
Was cleaning up the area, getting ready to reinstall the control arms (new bushings and ball joints in place) and noticed some ugly welding work done around the rearward mount for the lower control arm.
Then I looked carefully at the forward mount for the same LCA and found what I think are small cracks in the surfaces around the hole where the cam bolt drives through.
I imagine this area is under a lot of stress…as evidenced by the ugly weld job on the rearward mount. Since this car wasn't raced, I'm assuming age and mileage have taken their toll on this area.
I can certainly do an "ugly" weld job on the small cracks, but wanted to get some input before I fired up the Mig and laid down some ugly beads of molten metal wire.
Any thoughts?
Pic 1 - Passenger side, LCA mount.
Pic 2 - Ugly repair weld on LCA, rearward mount
Pic 3 - Cracks on LCA, forward mount
Pic 4 - Close up of cracks