Thread: Defender 110 Singe cab chassis looking for tray to suit ..

Don't get a rigid steel tray. Aly is good as it flexes not flexing the chassis. there is a manual or supplement that outlines where and how to attach. Watch the load distribution

Long history of chassis cracking if overloaded/too stiff.

The body building used to be on here under the files menu that seems to be disabled

I bought a second hand steel tray for my 130 DC and changed the mounting system a bit to get around the mount cracking issue, there are a couple of threads on here that have different ways to solve the problem.

Front Tray Mounts on D130

Tray Mounts

My pictures from the second thread were eaten by photobucket, I'll try and find them this evening. Basically I reengineered the tray mount at the very front to have some flex, solid mounted the rear to the chassis with some insertion runner and put large spring mounts on the second set of mounts (these are the ones that crack) made from a couple of Inter truck valve springs and some HT bolts. Has been working well carrying up to 1 tonne of water in an IBC container on the farm.

Second hand trays for Defenders are around, in the 3 months or so I was actively looking a couple came up and I got mine for $450, pretty reasonable for a tray that originally cost in excess of $5000. If it is a steel tray you will probably need to remediate the chassis mounts though as a lot of commercial tray builders dont seem to have much idea about letting the chassis flex or following the body building manual's guidelines. (dealers can also have the same issues)

Alloy trays are much easier to fit and are more universal in their mounting systems, pretty much anything in the correct size would do but you may have trouble finding one long enough for a SC130. If you have the luxury of time and expertise I'd consider building one yourself. I would have done this but no tray= no rego on a new car in NSW so I didn't have that option.

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