BMC 1.5 broken engine mount

[Tracy D'arth]

1 minute ago, Crow said:

There not die cast.  Just normal cast aluminium tig weld with  pure argon and use a stainless wire brush and use a proper aluminium grinding wheel. And it will weld easy. 

I thought it was big for a cheap die cast, so sand cast?  I can weld but never used tig and gas torch welding ally I find very tricky.

[Crow]

Gas welding it is easy enough. Now you will need a lot bigger nozzle than you think. A no10 for that casting   Get some proper ally gas  welding flux and some 3.25   4043 rods and  your away. I used to weld aluminium irrigation pipes 1.5 mm thick with gas prior to tig and you even needed a no5 for them

[rgriffiths]

For anyone interested this is what happened :

 

 

Got it out, welded up and good as new I hope. 

 

Found the drive plate was broken too so changed it at the same time. 

 

Thanks for all the help and advice. 

[Tracy D'arth]

10 minutes ago, rgriffiths said:

For anyone interested this is what happened :

 

 

Got it out, welded up and good as new I hope. 

 

Found the drive plate was broken too so changed it at the same time. 

 

Thanks for all the help and advice. 

Nice weld, glad it sorted out for you.

[Tony Brooks]

and thanks for reporting back.