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Aaron and I have a plan, I have the rear quarter ordered, should be here in a week or so.
I am trying to track down new body mounts, BA does not seem to have them. And collect new hardware for the tow hitch, tank straps.
Should be fun.
The rear chassis showed up. Took about a week from UK, its is surprisingly light. Now I need to use up some fuel, hope to tackle in the next week or so. New hardware should be here later this week. There are no clear instructions about where to cut, so I imagine it will be a lot of measuring and triple checking. If this goes as well as it sounds like it could, all these rusted out rovers could be rescued for $600 and a few hours time.
do you have a photo of the chassis section, as for the one I did I measures from the centre of the bolt hole on the rear end to the full length of the new section then subtracted 4 inch, so the old chassis goes in the new chassis section at least 4 inch then clamp the wings on the old chassi end, as I said earlier befor welding I drill 6 holes 3/4 in on each side leg, the bolted up the new sectio to the body bolt at the rear clamped it all up tight and welded it all including plug welding the 6 holes both chassis legs
Last edited by frostythor; Apr 29, 2024 at 09:26 AM.
do you have a photo of the chassis section, as for the one I did I measures from the centre of the bolt hole on the rear end to the full length of the new section then subtracted 4 inch, so the old chassis goes in the new chassis section at least 4 inch then clamp the wings on the old chassi end, as I said earlier befor welding I drill 6 holes 3/4 in on each side leg, the bolted up the new sectio to the body bolt at the rear clamped it all up tight and welded it all including plug welding the 6 holes both chassis legs
I follow you, i think that is what I am going to do. I am sure I will end up making multiple cuts for fear of cutting off too much at once.
Subscribed.....Following closely as this exact thing is in my future. Agreed that many Rovers could be saved with the 1/4 frame swap. Currently looking for a mobile welder and sourcing parts. @redrover75 , I found info on the trailer hitch hardware but not the fuel tank strap hardware sizes needed. Found a few items on Rovers North site. Any info you could share on sourcing the hardware would be appreciated. After 20+ years in Chicago winters probably best to just replace it all. It looks like I will have to do some replacement of metal coming from behind the spring mount like @frostythor. Looking forward to the end result!
The other bolts were in good shape. The fuel tank bolts are M8 or M10, mine are in good shape, but AB sells them. I would probably get them all from ebay once you get the size.
It took about 3.5 hours, moving slowing and wasting about 30 minutes on a frozen bolt from the front of the fuel tank. also took 20 minutes to pump out 5 gallons of fuel. It could certainly be done in a couple hours. Does anyone know what the bar below does? I dont see anything that attaches to it and if I dont have to re-install it that would save me some time and prep and paint.
I am slightly nervous about have enough good steel to weld to, but I am cautiously optimistic. Everything I have removed it being sanded, prepped and painted, new hardware. The fuel tank bolts are M10, with the front 2 have nylock nuts and captive bolts that I will replace with grade 8 and a bunch of antiseize. The others were fine.
I need to fix the fuel pump, it never reads correctly, there is an outline in the bottom of the fuel tank of 2 "C"s. does anyone know the correct orientation of the pump to the bottom of the tank? What is this bar?
