Our Mondeo Mk2 has bust a spring. A helpful friend reckoned I'd be best off swapping the whole strut, which I'm now starting to question. Anyway, I picked one up from the scrapyard yesterday, then realised it was a non-ABS one, whereas the car has ABS. Top halves are the same, but lower sections differ. Scrapyard will exchange it, but want 50quid + VAT for the ABS strut (this one was 35+VAT), which seems a lot when I only really need a spring. Trouble is, I really need it sorted ASAP.
So, I'm wondering about splitting the non ABS one and replacing just the top half. Scrapyard say that 9 times out of 10, the pinch bolt shears, ruining the whole thing. If that happens, can I just weld the bugger together? Or would I be best off wasting another day, ordering a new spring and buying myself a set of compressors to fit it with?
Any thoughts?