Right last week whilst having a little play i got carried away and did the un thinkable....... fractured the bloody pedal box!!!!! I did this on the cordoba and straight away thought i'm not paying £300 to have a new one fitted!!!
As you can see the bar that braces both halves of the box together is severly fractured, not suprised really its about as thin as tin foil! My first idea was welding and got onto my friend, but getting a welder in there would be dangerous and difficult, however he run rally land rovers and told me about a diff that he had put back together using Liquid Metal. Turns out this is a very strong metal bonding glue that is as strong as welding but as it dries slowly allows much more positioning. So i formulated a plan and hit B & Q.
Cable ties, metal braces 7mm thick and Metal Glue
After an hour sanding, degreasing, followed by much glueing and a few cable ties to clamp everything to:
Looks very messy but looks don't count up the back of the dash, the main problem with these pedal boxes is the bracket that holds the clutch cable flexing and putting strain on the rest of the box until something snaps, so its now well and truly attached to the bulk head. I also braced this bracket to the lower half of the box to add more strength. I then repaired the area that had cracked by filling and then bracing again.
Final look with me going over kill with the glue:
Cable tied it all together to make it rigid and allow it to set hard for 24 hours, a day later it doesnt move an inch i guess only time will tell if the glue really is as good as welding!
As you can see the bar that braces both halves of the box together is severly fractured, not suprised really its about as thin as tin foil! My first idea was welding and got onto my friend, but getting a welder in there would be dangerous and difficult, however he run rally land rovers and told me about a diff that he had put back together using Liquid Metal. Turns out this is a very strong metal bonding glue that is as strong as welding but as it dries slowly allows much more positioning. So i formulated a plan and hit B & Q.
Cable ties, metal braces 7mm thick and Metal Glue
After an hour sanding, degreasing, followed by much glueing and a few cable ties to clamp everything to:
Looks very messy but looks don't count up the back of the dash, the main problem with these pedal boxes is the bracket that holds the clutch cable flexing and putting strain on the rest of the box until something snaps, so its now well and truly attached to the bulk head. I also braced this bracket to the lower half of the box to add more strength. I then repaired the area that had cracked by filling and then bracing again.
Final look with me going over kill with the glue:
Cable tied it all together to make it rigid and allow it to set hard for 24 hours, a day later it doesnt move an inch
i guess only time will tell if the glue really is as good as welding!
