Originally Posted By Kiddart
by the looks of the kit I would almost bet you need to separate the flange. or if you are a Chevy guy clean the flange and weld over the old. LOL

the kit appears to have holes drilled to replicate the spot welds on original flange.



I think if you split that flange you're going to need a lot more than those few holes that they punch in the filler. There's a ton of spot welds in the flange from the factory, almost one on top the other to where it's nearly a stitch weld.

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