K member broken, suggestions?

grumpuscreature said
Took a pretty serious hit to fold the driver's side wheel under like that, flatten a motor mount, and bend the lower control arm pin on the passenger's side. Before you spend up a bunch of money on purty parts for that car, it might be a good idea to have the front frame rails checked for straightness...

I know I said broken in my post too, but it looks to me like that engine mount was cut off. You can see what looks like saw marks in the larger picture.

The lower control arm pin looks straight to me, the LCA is just backed off of it because the bushing is shot. Of course, it also wouldn't be the first time the welds broke on the LCA pin mount either.

-Zach- said
I don't want a crap storm either lol. With the old CAP stuff having bad welds I wonder if the QA1 units now have those same issues?

I seriously doubt it. QA1 retooled a lot of the designs after they bought out CAP, and I don't think anyone from CAP is still involved with QA1. They were just bought out. QA1 is a good company with a good reputation.

-Zach- said
Just the engine mount is broken the rest is good from looking at it. I hope I can find a replacement tomorrow. As far as welding it I have done a few tach weld's here and there but never anything that was of importance like that. If I knew of a shop around here that I could trust I would be more than willing to have them do the work.

If you can source another engine mount the work isn't that hard. The biggest thing will be making sure its in the right spot, not the welding. If you take a close look at the factory welds on the K frame, you'll see what I mean. A few well placed and decently executed tack welds would probably be as strong as the factory bubblegum. Of course I would suggest fully welding it in, I'm just saying that the factory welds were pretty crappy in some cases.