Welding near fuel lines?

Got a hole near the catalytic converter that I plan on welding a 1/8 steel plate over. Where I’ll be welding is a couple inches away from fuel lines. Going to be using a flux core welder. Any thoughts or recommendations? Should a leather glove covering the lines be enough?

 

Leather glove and or wet towel or rag. And just take your time and be careful.

 

Wet shop towel, that's all you need.

 

Ahhh, humm, are you sure you have the skills/knowledge if you need to ask this question? Respectfully.

You have no knowledge of the skill level of respondents.

Could you pop the converter off to do the repair?

This could be a Darwin Award kind of project.

Be safe!! Good Luck!!

 

Hold my beer...

 

If you don't weld on the fuel line you should be fine. Stick welder would be a different story too easy to contact the fuel line.

 

Repairing that correctly will be more involved than just welding a plate over it. That part of the frame is 2 layers thick, and both layers are shot. You need to cut the two layers back until you find solid metal, then plate the INNER layer first, and finally plate the OUTER layer.

And then, of course, you need to think about the consequence of having rust forming between the two layers, which is related to why it failed there to begin with.