I wanted to buy a 2004 Disco. Its an SE7 and very clean and has 80k on it. The truck looks new even the engine compartment looks new. I have a 2003 SE and I owned it since less than 6 months old and compare a truck a year older than mine, the 2004 looks very new except the rear bottom part of the disco. There's a bit of rusting on both sides (picture attached).
I would like to know if this can be fixed or it will lessen the integrity of the frame once the rust is removed. It seems some parts are chipping away.
I need your advice. Thanks
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Yikes... This is why living in the South has a benefit. I lived up North most of my life where salt destroyed vehicles. Not sure I'd want that rust issue. Good luck!

 

And thaaaat's why we started selling disco 2 galvanized chassis'...

 

Ahh, thats good to know. But any idea how much it will cost to move the entire disco to another chassis? Any shops that can do a swap in the east coast? Thanks

 

"Go South young man", and find you an '04 Disco!

 

Yes there is help, to an extent for that amount of rust. Take the Disco and have all the under carriage media blasted to bear metal, make any repairs and then have the entire area coated with a good rust preventive.
You should inspect between the tank and the cargo floor as well as all door jams and the area where the firewall meats the floor.
If you do this, do not go cheap or it will not give you any long term benefits.

 

There's a shop in Mass doing the swaps now. J. Whites auto I believe.

Body comes right off the chassis with several bolts and electrical connections. I have seen a lot of people just weld plates on the rear chassis replacing the frame rails.

 

You might want to take a look at the rear calipers, too. I just finished bleeding my brakes and noticed the rears starting to flake apart. Thetruck came from Maryland.

 

That's why all Rover's, new and old, are supposed to leak oil, to prevent rust like this from happening.

 

That chassis is not good, but really, it's probably only bad in that one area...
A ood dose of rust-proofing will stop it going much further, but a better option might be to cut it out and plate it - this will probably be needed at some point in the future regardless.

Personally, I would use this as an invitiation to dig deeper, as it were... Make double sure that there is no other rust around. Also - I have welder and skills to repair it properly; so if the truck was otherwise great, and I could negociate this price accordingly to this rust, then I'd not let it slip me by.

You may or may not feel the same way about this - you'd probably be looking at 10 hrs of garage labor to drain and drop the tank, cut out the rust, fabricate a new piece, weld it in, prime/paint/seal and re-install the tank.