03-07-2019, 10:28 PM
30 years ago I fitted a crack tested and braced steering arm, almost identical to that in picture posted by Terrytuned, in theory its a great idea and certainly has to be better than not fitting a brace. But the best part of 20 years later I removed it again after finding cracks beginning to propagate on the internal radius, cracked or not I now always fit one of David's arms to my own cars. I have heard some say yes we hear that arms do crack but when have you ever heard of on breaking in two whilst driving, in honesty the answer is never, but I don't want to be the first reporting such an incident. I absolutely hate scaremongering and hearsay around Austin 7 and often speak out against such, that said whatever you do it is without doubt important to periodically check this component, and the information here, to my mind, can not be repeated often enough.
Black Art Enthusiast