MkI conversion to PS - problem found, link to pics

[txrocco at sbcglobal.net (Patrick Bureau)]

bent frame eh?... hummm that spot is going to be a hard part to staighten out,
because the A-Arm assembly is part of that, whcih probably indicates somewhat
damage (percentage off angle) on the A-Arm structure as well..

the only thing I can thin i get it to a shop and get them to straighten the
body out back in place in thos special machine...

if it was me... Ill strip the car and get another one. cause teh straighteneing
of a frame cost mucho dineros now-a-days..

--- Ron Pieper <rapieper@yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://scirocco.dhs.org/cheapassron/misc/bent_firewall/
> 
> OK, with much thanks to those who replied, esp. Dan Bubb for the photos,
> above is what I found.
> 
> The car must have been in some sort of wreck at some time, or somebody jumped
> a tree stump or
> something.  That'd explain the bent pass motor mount ears, and the damaged
> firewall.
> 
> After I pulled the rack, I found the rack and bushings looked OK.  Then I saw
> that the lower
> u-joint had been rubbing on the horizontal seam in the firewall.  Darn. 
> Sooo...looking for
> obvious wreck damage, I happened to catch the light just right in the paint
> and saw the kink in
> the firewall (between the mounts in the see_the_kink photo).  To give you an
> idea of how far out
> the rack is, see the drivers_side and pass_side photos (looking in from the
> wheelwell) and the
> straightedge photos, where I laid a piece of stock across the mounting
> surfaces and you can see
> how far out of whack it is.
> 
> Sorry for the poor photos, all I have is the still photo feature on our Sony
> DigiCam.  
> 
> Question is, what to do now???  Beat it out from the inside???
> 
> Sh!t!
> 
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ATS - Patrick Bureau - txrocco@sbcglobal.net
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