I did that to my 'B back in '88 and it held up well. My new(to me) 'B
doesn't have the crack or the weld, but I was thinking of being proactive
when I replace the inner door skins.
Joanna
'79 MGB LE
"Murch, Paul" wrote:
> Trevor,
>
> Below is your treatment of the crack of doom from a while back, How
> about a progress report? Has this worked out? Any reapearance? Things
> that you would do differently?
>
> I am in the process of reskining my doors and have welded in plates much
> in hopes to avoid future problems.
>
> Thanks
> Paul Murch
> 64B
>
> Quote from long e-mail
>
> "What I did was to put a plate of steel behind the crack. I drilled
> a half dozen holes in the doorskin on both sides of the crack, and
> plug welded through them to attach the plate. Then weld up the crack,
> also welding it to the plate in the process. The welded up crack will
> hold, because the plate takes the "design defect" stress off the area.
>
> --
> Trevor Boicey, Ottawa, Canada.
> tboicey@brit.ca, http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/";
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