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Old 05-08-2009, 05:20 PM
Chas H Chas H is offline
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Originally Posted by Diesel911 View Post
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.
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.
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