After tinkering with the Civic last night, I had some spare time. I've been itching to work on the Metro ever since picking it up nearly a week ago now.
First things first, lets look at that control arm mount rust. It was about as bad as I thought it was...
Here I just started poking around with a small hammer to see what crusty rust was hiding under the flaking paint.
You can see, the control arm was literally PACKED with rust bits.
Here is the engine bay side of the mount. I did a bit more poking after this pic.
Here we have the very front side of the mount.
And, here we have the final shot of the outside of the mount again. I cleaned a lot of the rust out by hand, then took compressed air and blew it around until it was all out. It was very moist inside, no surprise that the rust starts and goes like crazy.
I didn't get around to any actual repairs. I'll let it dry out, then sand it down to get some good metal to weld to, and then make up some pieces to patch it up.