[Tigers] Tiger newbie question

[Owain Lloyd]

i can't comment on whats original or not but here is a (bad) picture
of my left pass-through:

http://owainlloyd.no-ip.com:8080/photos/Tiger/bellhousing%20inspection%20plate/slides/CIMG4488.JPG

the right side looks a little different - looks as if its been
patched.  sorry, i don't have a picture of that side.

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:38 PM,  <sralsten at ca.rr.com> wrote:
> I've been looking for a good car in a price I can afford for a couple months now. I've got a question for you pros....
>
> I've learned a common spot to find frame rust problems is at the exhaust pass throughs. I have seen something there that I don't quite understand and I hope I can explain it well enough to get an answer. I believe I read on this list that it is normal to find a small lip all around the oval shape frame opening that the exhaust passes through. If the lip is gone it indicates a replacement or repair. True ?
>
> I have seen pictures of this area on a couple cars that showed something that I thought was a repair but maybe I was wrong. I'm not sure what the factory original should look like. I've noticed that there appears to be welds holding an 8 inch or so piece of frame that has the pass through cut in the midst of it. Sometimes it appears to be thicker than the rest of the cross member or even a different coloration (maybe holding road grime differently ?)
>
> Is this "thickening" of a cross member at the exhaust through a repair or is that the factory ? What really confused me on this as well as my newness was the fact that the last pictures I got of a car for sale had the thicker area with appearence of welds hidden below the grime, but it also had the small lip around the pipe opening. Maybe I've been dismissing a factory correct condition as a repair ? Please straighten me out. If my description is not clear enough I can try to find a way to show a picture.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
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