so i wrecked my prelude..and it bent the bracket that holds the lower control arm onto the frame..the bracket is rivited on..and is bent about an inch towareds the front of the car...what can i do to fix this? just bed it back? or drill out the rivits and find a new one or get a new one custom made?

 

Post pics.

 

i am going to take come soon..maybee tomm..but untill i can get them......does everyone know what i am talking about?

 

if it's been wrecked, you're going to want to get a pro to look at it. you don't know the structural integrity of the material after it's been thru a wreck. good luck man. but let's see some pictures up

 

If the structure of the car is bent the money you'd have to pay to try to fix that isn't worth it. Once you start bending metal even a full inch and then try to bend it back it's rigidity decreases greatly and if its just a bracket like you say then it's probaly thin already and may give out next big pothole you hit.

 

thanks for all the advice ill get some pics up here soon

 

 

your cradle is bent. i bent mine once before too. sucks realllly bad replaceing it. go to a body shop with frame machines, they might be able to just bend that back and weld it up. but no, your not gonna be able to just drill the rivets out and replace. you have to replace the whole engine cradle.

 

im just replacing my whole cradel and all of my right side susp.

 

change the cradel .
go to a junk yard a pick up a used one.

 

i just got all my parts from a junk yard. i got a cradel and everything on the pass. side susp. the shock, brakes, halfshaft, a arm, control arm everything! lol just now to change it all out and then onto my h23 turbo project!!!!

 

SAME EXACT THING just happened to my Prelude... $150 for the subframe cradle, $20 for the lower control arm, and $79 for the alignment... Back to normal.

 

lol yep i got EVERTYHING for 200 bux...and im gunna do it at my buddys shop for free..so

 

^ Good deal.

Good luck with it man.

 

Something similar happened to my lude on my driver/front side. Had to buy the whole new suspension upper/lower control arms, spring/strut, control rods all that and it still doesn't feel the same. Everytime I turn to the right hard I cringe.

 

^ Seriously? Something isn't right then... If you replaced the entire suspension setup (Including the cradle, I assume?), then it should be good as new, or you have structural damage.

 

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My thoughts exactly. Just don't know who to trust these days.