Went to put the bracket in and the control arm wouldn't go in. Normally when I make a clevis, I stick a washer in the stackup to leave a little space. I forgot to do that this time, and when all that welding pulled things in it was a little too narrow. The bracket is really stiff, and took an enormous force to spread even a little. I was planning for hammers and press, or cut pry and reweld. I didn't really like any of these options.
I figured I would try and use the tig torch to bend the bracket. I ran an autogenous weld across the bracket. Below you can see where I ran the torch across next to my previous weld. Although running a large gap would have had a higher heat input, I decided to keep the gap small so that the weld wouldn't look gnarly.
This opened the clevis .020 inch and allowed the arm to install with a few gentle hammer whacks.
Installed!
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