Thread: RRC Chassis cracks

had the same chassis/mount cracks on my 95 disco too... they opened up after a particularly corrugated western deserts trip... welded them up once which lasted a while... second time around, lifted the body up and welded in some gussets...

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Well if you have chassis cracks , you should look half way up your B pillars near the door locks. 4 doors crack there.
Also have a look at the base of the windscreen A pillars, just from the corner of the screen under the rubber outward.
My 2 door cracked there.
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Well if you have chassis cracks , you should look half way up your B pillars near the door locks. 4 doors crack there.

I had the LH side B pillar crack there about 5 years back.
Only noticed because I'd been on the coast and the rust showed me.

Thanks guys will check the B pillars as well.

PhillipA did you have an old 2 door rangy with a detroit locker in the rear and Lucas fuel injection around early 2000 2001?????

Justin

Yep that was me.
I sold it in December 1999 and bought my current 3.9.
I never learn .
Regards Philip A

Originally Posted by PhilipA

Yep that was me.
I sold it in December 1999 and bought my current 3.9.
I never learn .
Regards Philip A

Small world I remember a fellow in our old club in Sydney buying it. Ended up being cut up into a competition car.

Most RRCs that have cracked up here have been the result of hard use with a roof rack. We just dent em in, wield em up then file em down. Not had any come in with chassis mounts cracked yet but have seen them bend under bulk head.

Small world I remember a fellow in our old club in Sydney buying it. Ended up being cut up into a competition car

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Yes I was at Mt Airlee a short time after I sold it to the guy from the Blue Mountains club and he was there. He ripped the rear bar cap off going up the "v" that was in the track, and I felt sad. I had just bought the bar before selling it, to tidy it up.LOL

The car actually had a competition past I think. When I pulled off the trans cover carpet and insulation, there were a variety of holes there. Maybe it was an auto or maybe some other engine/transmission.
I remember doing some rust chasing and finding 3inches of dust/mud in the back body frame uprights behind the taillights.
I took it in the Nissan Trials in 1998 or 9. It is reasonably famous ( 5 seconds of fame???), as if you look at the famous clip of the Toyota tray top rolling sideways down the hill which was also on Funniest Home Videos, I was next car up down the bottom. I was getting pretty nervous but it stopped well short.
Regards Philip A