Best way to repair?

[69bronzeT5]

My car has rotten torsion bars and the rear frame rails right by the rear valance are rotten. Whats the best way to repair them...buy caps and cap them or cut them out and find replacments? And also, possibly the cheapest way

[bull]

The best way is always the right way and to do it right the rust needs to be gone, not covered.

[terrible one]

Caps will be cheaper of course, but the right way, as Bull said, would be to cut out the rusty areas and replace them. Are your torsion bars themselves rotten or is the the torsion bar crossmemeber?

[Lurker]

My car has rotten torsion bars and the rear frame rails right by the rear valance are rotten. Whats the best way to repair them...buy caps and cap them or cut them out and find replacments? And also, possibly the cheapest way

i cut and patched my rear frame rails, easy to do if the rear crossmember and valance are off the car i wouldn't do caps my self unless i was 100% sure all the rust underneath was dead.

[69bronzeT5]

Caps will be cheaper of course, but the right way, as Bull said, would be to cut out the rusty areas and replace them. Are your torsion bars themselves rotten or is the the torsion bar crossmemeber?

Im pretty sure its the crossmember but Im not sure....whatever it is, its almost completley gone on the right side...

Heres a pic of the left side...I circled the part that is rotten and even more rotten on the right side..I also circled something Im not really sure what it is...

[lilwendal]

The forward piece you have circled is just a lower section of the cowl. Extension of the splash gaurd area.  Its not hard to replace.
You definetly have a rusty torsion mount cross member.  I suspect you will find more problems when you get the rest of the floor up.
Sand blast it and you'll really see how bad it is.
If you have to replace floors on both side and this is the "better" side of your cross member then I would say replace the whole cross member. Theres not too much to it once the floors are out.  Each forward frame has 7 or 8 spots that attach it. Then on each rocker there are 6 or seven more.
If you can wait till AMD releases thier full floor pans that would really speed up the process. No more stich welding the tunnel.

[daytonalo]

Does anyone make a full Crossmember  ? Please , not that cap bullshit !!!!!!!

[lilwendal]

I dug one out and gave it a quick blasting.  Very nice with no rust.  Heres a couple pics.    First come first served.
150.00 plus 30.00 shipping lower 48.

[lilwendal]

Sorry wrong pics.   :-\theses were before it was blasted.  I'll post the after pics  tomorrow.

[terrible one]

I dug one out and gave it a quick blasting.  Very nice with no rust.  Heres a couple pics.    First come first served.
150.00 plus 30.00 shipping lower 48.

Now that's a deal!

[Truebelieverone]

I dug one out and gave it a quick blasting.  Very nice with no rust.  Heres a couple pics.    First come first served.
150.00 plus 30.00 shipping lower 48.

I realize this is almost a year old thread but is there any chance you still have this piece?