Thread: County rear x member, from scratch..

... thats some serious undercut on the manufactured receiver welds. Probably wont ever cause a problem but I wouldnt be showing an engineer that photo if it is getting a ticket

I wish scrappy steel was only $1/kg up this way...

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Originally Posted by roverrescue

... thats some serious undercut on the manufactured receiver welds. Probably wont ever cause a problem but I wouldnt be showing an engineer that photo if it is getting a ticket

Nothing that a bit of paint cant hide. Well done Tim and Co watching with intrest as will be doing simmila in next few days.

Looks good Tim and once mick see's this thread he will want me to make a similar one for his county which is what i suggested to do anyways

Originally Posted by lokka

Looks good Tim and once mick see's this thread he will want me to make a similar one for his county which is what i suggested to do anyways

lol

Well we got started on removing the old rusted rear cross member on sunday, got abit done, but didn't get it off until lunch time today
It turned out to be not as badly rusted as first thought, but anyway...

As i may have mensioned already, the exsisting fuel tank has had it, so while we are at it we are going to replace the tank with a 98 defender unit

Tank removed.



The reason why we are replacing the x member..



We gave up trying to remove it in one peice so decided to just hack the hell out of it






Half the bar thrown to one side



Slowly getting there









The chassis is in very good nick!!
No rust on the outside and only a tiny bit of surface on the inside



Ready to start bolting to..





It is quite a mission of a job to remove with only an angle grinder, if the plasma cutter wasn't playing up it would have only taken a couple of hours

Dummy fit with two X member to body tabs tacked on..





The mounting bracket/plates that will bolt through crush tubes in the chassis tacked on..

Don't worry about the tacks the welder wasn't feeding properly















All the X member to body tabs fitted.
And the bar mounted in position with all the mounting brackets tacked on..





Thats about it for now, next we have to drill the holes in the chassis, weld crush tubes in, make/buy then fit some sort of recovery points, highlift jacking positions, side/wing guards, possibly some tube rapping around to keep them tree's and banks away from the body work
Make and fit spare wheel carrier, make some fuel tank mouning tabs seeing we cut the other's off in anger
etc, etc..

CHEERS TIM.

Here are a couple more pics..







Havn't got much more done but we have been working on it, having troubles with drilling holes

Anyhow, tomorrow we will finnish drilling the holes and muck around with strengthning the mounting points and fitting the fuel tank

CHEERS TIM.

Got it mounted on friday after a big rush as usuall..

Pics..

Fuel tank mounts tacked on..



Mounting arms that run back to a crush tubed hole tacked on.






Fuel tank mounts with captive bolts..



Ready to bolt on.









Crush tubes tacked in..



Still got alot more to do before it gets a lick of paint..

CHEERS TIM.

Well, while the county's out of action (broken crown wheel and pinion) we decided to rip the bar off again and grind it back, weld a few more things up and get it ready for galvernizing sometime soon.

Almost shiny again..





Dad also welded the mount for a spare wheel carrier on.



It still needs abit more work then she will be ready...

CHEERS TIM.