Hi, there. Neat problem. What kind of car is it? Any pictures?
If you look at this company's page:
http://www.flamespraydenver.com/Flame_Spray.aspx
you will see that they explicitly list this claim: "Flame Spraying does not
produce distortion or affect temper of heat treated parts that other repair
methods cause." Since brazing requires that you get the base metal cherry
red hot you would certainly be affecting the temper of the stabilizer bar.
I have a similar problem that I need to address. The steering column groove
for my car has some pits in the surface. It uses ball bearings between the
nut and the shaft and the bearings have a matte finish showing me that they
haven't been too happy rding over the pits. As far as I can tell using the
metalizing spray is my best hoe since like you replacing the part seems
virtually impossible (1956 Daimler Regency Mk II '104' - about maybe 100
made and durn few surviving).
Good luck and please let us know what you end up doing so we can all learn
from your experiences.
Mark Watson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Bronlund" <peteb@clear.net.nz>
To: "shop-talk List" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:31 AM
Subject: [Shop-talk] Car suspension repair: Concern over heat effect on
metal. What's the proper approach?
> I'm needing to do a restoration repair on the front
> suspension stabilizer bar from my car. One end has become
> really (badly) rust pitted. I've been very lucky to have
> sourced the last available 'peanut' shaped rubber bushes
> that fit onto the bar ends. Inside the bush is a tough nylon
> bearing. If i just put the damaged pitted steel end into the
> bush we run the risk of the bush being flogged out within no
> time i'm guessing.
>
> I'm thinking, can i simply heat the pitted end (which i've
> had soaking in EvapoRust to remove the corrosion with the
> oxy-acyet torch and put some braze over it then once cooled
> file it back to shape cylindrical. Of course i'm thinking
> the metal in the bar *could* go brittle and break latter
> which would not be good.
>
> The problem is that the bar is pretty rare being as the car
> is Italian....
>
> I've posted this same question to another local Forum with
> pictures to explain the problem:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6mh2c9
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on this one? TIA Pete
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