Robliepse
Well-Known Member
Well, here we go. What started as an alignment on my 72 GTX turned into an entire front end rebuild. Since I'm in not in a big hurry I slightly lifted the engine and removed the K member to clean it up. That's where the fun started. I broke out my wire wheel tonight to clean up the frame rails around the shock towers and found some serious rust. It appears that someone in the past had welded a patch on the inside of the rail but the rail is in pretty bad shape. Over the past hour or so and a couple of cold beers I removed enough dirt and rust chunks from the frame drain holes to fill a couple of quart jars. Before posting this I searched the prior post and found a link to autorust.com and they appear to have patch parts to fix this without totally replacing the rails. Does anyone have any experience with autorust? Please send me your thought and advice on the best way to fix this. It's a real numbers matching 1972 440 GTX and I'm working towards a very nice driver car and I don't have crazy dreams of building a TV auction lottery car.
I'll post some pictures tomorrow
I'll post some pictures tomorrow