Busy Few Days
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Busy Few Days
HI all have a busy few day, my disco failed it test, rust hole in the chassis at the back, so ordered a new section. several choices, I decides to replace the back section
so I have to drain the tank, yes it was full , but by jacking up on the filler cap side as high as I could I syphoned it all out , possible the worse bit to do
I first chopped off the rear cross section, to reduce the weight , when the new chassis arrived measure up the chopped the two sid legs to length
the new bit fitted well, did a trail fit, removed it cleaned up the original sections were it will weld on the refitted it and bolted it up in place
All ready for welding now
so I have to drain the tank, yes it was full , but by jacking up on the filler cap side as high as I could I syphoned it all out , possible the worse bit to do
I first chopped off the rear cross section, to reduce the weight , when the new chassis arrived measure up the chopped the two sid legs to length
the new bit fitted well, did a trail fit, removed it cleaned up the original sections were it will weld on the refitted it and bolted it up in place
All ready for welding now
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Hi the new section does not have the 3 mm corner pieces but is is made if 3 mm to compensate for that plus the original thickness was 2 mm plus the angle, if you look at the top photo,you get a better idea of the original thickness , the second photo is a bit misleading as it looks thicker but that the cut off edge and I had not smoothed out the inside , as I have taken it off again to do a repair on the bottom of the right side, were the metal was very thin, and a lot of rust between the bottom left side angle section,and the old metal
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Hi XRAD, not sure were your based but in the UK there are several options open to you if you intend to do a similar project,
this one is good and very inexpensive buy to me its more of a plating option leaving the rust hidden and ready to come out again
this one
good again not to expensive, but a lot of prep grinding cleaning and welding needed, the rear cross member difficult to get full access
had I found that there was angle iron in all of the 4 corners I may have gone for this one
I have emailed them to ask if they did this in 3 mm thick metal, Ok to do the inside you still need to remove the fuel tank , but these are not for plating you will need to remove the original,fixtures, but with these at least you can cut to size, for a good fit, if you dont need a full repair, if there is any damage to the angle iron just do a repair as you go
had I known about the angle strengthening on the chassis I think I would have used these as the look a good fit and are inexpensive. just doing one side at a time to keep the alainment , an as an ex coded welder a easy fit just need to replace all the bit you take off in the correct places
this one is good and very inexpensive buy to me its more of a plating option leaving the rust hidden and ready to come out again
this one
good again not to expensive, but a lot of prep grinding cleaning and welding needed, the rear cross member difficult to get full access
had I found that there was angle iron in all of the 4 corners I may have gone for this one
I have emailed them to ask if they did this in 3 mm thick metal, Ok to do the inside you still need to remove the fuel tank , but these are not for plating you will need to remove the original,fixtures, but with these at least you can cut to size, for a good fit, if you dont need a full repair, if there is any damage to the angle iron just do a repair as you go
had I known about the angle strengthening on the chassis I think I would have used these as the look a good fit and are inexpensive. just doing one side at a time to keep the alainment , an as an ex coded welder a easy fit just need to replace all the bit you take off in the correct places
Last edited by frostythor; 05-18-2020 at 01:39 PM.
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