I've done this myself with my MIG welder, and it's held up fine. Shouldn't cost more than $20 to have someone do it, maybe less. Replace or weld any broken/missing braces while you are under there.
"Cooper, Jonathan R." wrote: > > First subject. > The three cornered Collar on our catalytic converter cracked off the body > of the converter the other day. It is a nice clean break and it looks like > the weld simply failed. I suspect that the brace failed first allowing it to > flex up and down. Is this something that I can take to a welding shop and > have them weld. The cat "looks good" on the inside and I don't want to spend > $100 that I don't have to. > -- Stuart MacMillan Seattle '84 Vanagon Westfalia w/2.1 '65 MGB (Daily driver since 1969) '74 MGB GT (Restoring sloooowly) Personal mechanic for: '70 MGB GT (Daughter's) Assisting on Restoration (and spending OPM): '72 MGB GT (Was daughter's, now son's) '64 MGB (Son's) Stripped and gone but their parts live on: '68 MGB, '73 MGB, '67 MGB GT |
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