Has anyone replaced the strut tower with success on a 2000 monte carlo ss

 

You mean cut out and replace the entire strut tower? That's a pretty serious job. Is yours beyond repair from rust or something?

 

Yeah im thinking bout cutting the old one out i been told it can be wielded and patched but im not sure

 

It certainly can be done. It's just held on with a ton of spot welds. It would be a ton of labor, and I'd always worry if the shops spot weld machine is big enough to reproduce OEM welds. Some of the places are multiple layers thick of steel and you'd need a pretty serious gun to weld it right.

IMO for how much that would cost, id just go buy a monte from a southern state without rust. There are plenty of early 6th gens out here in AZ for dirt cheap. I'd bet you could buy a whole car for what a shop would charge you to do the replacement correctly.

 

I am with Bumpin' on that thought about getting a cheap southern car.

Also, I would take a good, hard look at the rest of the body (up top and underneath). If the towers are rotted out, how is the rest of the car (as those are not the typical spots to rot the worse). If the rest of the car is in bad shape, if it can be patched to stay solid, go that path.