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.
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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
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