Replacing a Crossmember in a CRX...

[BlakJak]

Yeah, I know its a Honda...

A distant relative has a Honda CRX (mid 90s) with a cracked crossmember - rear (bottom of the firewall).
Anyone know much about how hard it is to replace this?
My dad is helping and hasnt done it before - was wondering if theres any little tricks. Commercial quote is for $700 worth of labour - ouch...

So far looks like the power steering is going to need to be bled, and engine mounts need to be discon'd... gear linkages need to be discon'd... exhaust dropped.. ??

Any pointers appreciated, that I can email them up to Dad... (hes in Auckers i'm in Wgtn...)

Cheers
BJ

[Infinite]

honestly working on crx's suck id pay the 70 i have taken the engine out of the miss's crx and damn talk about a fight!.

[evil_si]

hondas arnt that bad to work on,
have you considered having the crossmember welded up in place?

[BlakJak]

Infinite: $70? Multiply by 10 eh...

evil_si: I can ask...

[Infinite]

700!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O_O u can buy a mint crx for that lol

[ollieboy]

is it cracked because it hit a bridge at 180.

I helped a friend do his once and yeah I think the bastard bits were the shifter linkages, exhaust and steering. And I think only one engine mount to be undone, other than that just the usual easy stuff- just takes a while. We had a hoist as well so it was a hell of a lot easier.

Edit- car hoist not engine hoist if ya wondering