So last night I took my old braces, stripped the paint off and cleaned up for repaint.
The brace on my left side (which we really think was crashed at some point in the car’s life) has a funny bend in the flat end that bolts to the chassis. It also has a prominent weld. I’m a bit surprised someone tried to repair a 15” piece of 1/2” tubing rather than just replace.
But at this point that’s what I’m going to do. I believe the original tubing has a wall thickness of about 0.075”. At least when I measure the flat ends I get 0.14 to 0.15.
I’m going to try some OD 0.75”, 0.065” thick Docol and compare it to Chrome moly 0.083”. I need to be able to squeeze the ends, and that’ll be arm-hydraulics with a jig in a vise.
I’ll let you know how it goes.
