Got 30 yards up the road today when the gear linkage snapped! Thankfully its up from my house so I rolled gracefully back to the drive.

It looks like a homemade one to me (I didnt build the car) but does any one recognise it from a known kit manufacture?

Otherwise any advice on how or where to fix it, I never welded so would need to get it done somewhere. Hopefully made a little stronger this time....perhaps without the holes!

Thanks!

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is it 3mm? Should've been ok tbh, maybe it had got a little stiff and suffered a bit more stress. If its failed once though i wouldnt repair it, just make a slightly stronger copy. What is used for pivots?

If you can't find anyone more local I can weld it back together for you, could it be triangulated to stop future recurrence?

r1_pete, thanks for the offer I will let you know very shortly if I will take you up on it. More than happy offer cold beer tokens for your time.

Triangulation is a great idea! Very easy to do with little holes, I could easily bolt another cross piece in there. Cannot believe i never thought of that myself.

Ah, i assumed the angle was ment to move like a pivot, not that it was welding into an L.

looks like the hole was just to close to the stress line caused by the weld, I was always taught it was rarely the weld that snapped but half an inch either side of it

tony

Again if you cant get it done closer post it to me and I will sort it for you

if your going to just get it welded u might want to think about triangulating it by adding another piece to make it into a triangle (its stronger)