Hi N1KKO,
Sorry but entry level arc welding is not going to be good enough, you will end up with mostly slag and no strength and it will break straight away, it is not an easy repair to do unless you have done a lot of welding. Pity postage is so costly because I would be happy to repair it for you
Ah.........funny but I suspected this might be the case. Firstly, thats a very kind offer and I very much appreciate the generosity of it. Well I might have to spring for a 2nd hand MIG welder or worst case try it with the ARC one and if it's no good I'll just have to grind off the mess and redo.
FWIW I took the dimensions of the key components to assist in nailing down the best repair approach.
The axle is 35mm in length from it's end to the bush, it's 13mm in diameter. In addition, it has ~5mm of additional broken/snapped threaded 10mm diameter bolt/rod at it's end - as shown in original post pix.
The 'sleeve' is 35mm in length, it has a 16mm internal diameter.
So as a sidenote seems a terribly poorly thought out design by Honda.....why not have the sleeve fitting snuggly over the axle, so that it supports it along the length, instead there's 1.5mm of play/gap all around and that places all the stress on the small weld at the end of it. Very dumb and doesn't make much sense.
Regardless of what I do I'm going to have to drill the end out to ensure that the axle is centred correctly in the sleeve - , otherwise it'd be all too easy to have it off centre which would cause alignment issues and extra load stress.
PS. Literally had this post interrupted by yet another grass fire callout with the RFS.....seems the gods don't want me to repair this quickly at all. Need to have lunch. :-/
