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Originally Posted by Diesel911
You would think that the welding heat itself and the stress of the metal solidifying after the weld would do something undesirable to the metal; harden or soften it. Niether of which is good for Spring Steel.
Yet the repair seems to work.
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I mig welded a bolt to the rusted/broken off end of one of these bars. The car was then driven the 500 miles or so back home and sold a few years later. If the bar were made of a spring steel it likely would have cracked at the weld. On the other hand it's really not a heavily stressed part.