nitrowarrior

A few nights ago I accidentally "neutral dropped" when setting off from green lights and snapped my passenger side drive shaft.

In pushing the car into a parking space, with the steering on full lock,  the broken drive shaft got caught on the autobox and punctured a hole in the the outside cover plate!

Now I happened to have a spare drive shaft so fixed that but am left with a hole in my gearbox.  See the picture.  I have put a wanted add up for a new or second hand cover.  But pre-empting a hard to find part, do you think it would be safe to weld a patch over it?

I am planning an oil and filter change as I may have got some bits of metal into the box.

http://i.imgur.com/JGVPr0x.jpg

I am looking for a replacement end cover plate for an automatic gearbox.  Please see the picture.  It is the plate you see if you look in the passenger side wheel arch behind the wheel.  Maybe someone with a dead autobox could help? Thanks.

http://i.imgur.com/JGVPr0x.jpg