Recent content by davyjones

To clarify, this is the first time I'd been under it, since I just got the vehicle in a trade from an older out-of-state family member who was not physically able to crawl under it. Based on the newish muffler and how well everything else was maintained and regularly serviced I too am surprised...

Thanks for the replies. I'll have to wait for daylight for a more thorough inspection, but I didn't see any other holes or bad areas, and nothing that looked like it couldn't be stopped with a wire brush and appropriate coatings. I'm a little more hopeful now than when I spotted that mess this...

Rusted out inside view of lower control arm bracket: Outside of rusted bracket: Rusted segment of frame: As you can see, my lower control arm bracket is disturbingly rusted on the inside. A couple feet of the frame section it's connected to are also rusted through. I've been reading as...