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If it's sealed corrosion will stop once the oxygen is used up
A very small amount, only 20% of internal volume
Also if it's sealed there will be no means of further quantities of vapor laden air, causing condensation, gaining entry
Dave
Are the holes there for welding reasons?......stops the final part of the weld "blowing back"?
I'm sure you're right Paul as the holes are in the wrong place for drains and also on the small side.
Here are a few photos of the refurbishing of old 206's rear subframe that I have been doing recently. I would have loved to have taken the whole thing out and had it blasted and painted properly, but that was all too hard, so I simply took off everything I could, cleaned everything with wire brushes and sand paper, applied rust-killer and then painted it all by hand in-situ. A bit messy doing it that way, and lots of hours of work, but finally I have it all together again. The aim of course was to free up the rear wheel toe-in and camber adjusters so that I could fit Scooter's new kit and align the rear wheels (to avoid the wear you can see in the tyre photo), but getting rid of the surface rust was also important. Luckily, my subframe was not rusted to the extent of many of the early cars featured here recently, but I did have to use the angle grinder to get the toe-in adjusting bolts out.
By the way, for those of you interested in the ride height, I'm not sure what the range of adjustment is to compensate for camber when your springs are too low (or too high), but it isn't much. I took the trouble of packing my springs with spacers (you can see the red material in one of the photos) under the spring base to bring my ride height to the nominal 395mm wheel centre to wheel arch figure. Before the work, the figure was sitting at 385mm.
Good job. Once I get mine sorted out I'm sure there's other bits I can work on other than the subframe in situ. The rear anti roll bar brackets and bushes, do you know if they're the same size as the front? I can't find them listed on Rimmer Bros at all.
Looks like you have some nice new bushes on some of the parts. Are they after market bushes?
As this is a current topic I just though I would remind anyone interesed that i still have a full set of four tracking link arms brand new with bushes fitted. they came as part of the complete subframe I purchased but my original ones had already been fitted with Brians bush update so i did not need them, they were promised to someone but they withdrew from the purchase at the last minute.
If any one is interested i will be back in the UK weekend 11th & 12th of May when I can get them oiut of my garage and post them.
Cheers Ian