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Anyone know if these can be (safely) welded as a temporary measure?

I managed to snap mine this afternoon . It's cast iron, but is going to take about a week to get a replacement, and I can't do my job without a car.

If this is possible, I wouldn't be doing the work myself, it would be sent to a welding co. who usually specialise in industrial construction welding.

Thanks peoples

where did it snap?

The mount

If its the front just keep it in 2wd???

which mount, there are 3. is it the one that bolts to the crossmember just underneath where the front tailshaft goes in?

i broke this one when i hit it on a rock. i took it to a specialist welding place and the guy was able to tig weld a chunck of aluminium onto it then drill new holes........all while it was still in the car .........its held up perfectly to this day

bigsteve wrote:If its the front just keep it in 2wd???

I'll have to get a pic uploaded later - unfortunately I don't have my camera cable here... It's a little hard to explain.

Basically, the mount on the passenger side snapped cleanly in two (bolts to the chassis) - so now the diff is hanging down, and the CV is binding on the control arm. I tied the diff up to get home, but there's no way I'd drive any distance like that.

Think I'm just going to have to hire a car for the rest of the week 'til I've got some time to look at this

How did it happen?

cj wrote:How did it happen?

I was just doing a pretty easy climb, on fairly loose dirt. The rear right wheel dropped into a hole and the front left was up in the air. That was when I heard it crack. So I'm guessing the chassis must've flexed? Funnily enough, I've got a pic of about the time that it all hapenned too.

thats a pita.....cant' say i've ever read of a gv steel axle breaking a mount

Pull the front diff out, its not hard you can do it without pulling the front wheels off. I drove my GV around for 2 weeks without the front diff, while i was doing the locker install. Just thinking this will only work if you have manual hubs.

And while your under their, can to get the OD of the drivers side inner CV cup? I'm trying to workout if suzuki changed the CV's from the 2003 model?