Thread: 110 county/defender rear cross member chassis

If you are in Melb I will have a really good chassis for sale in a couple of months.
Usually its a cut and reweld a new section on.

Depends how bad it is and how good your fabrication skills are. You can fab your own, but a new rear crossmember with outriggers is around $500 IRC. You use the new one as a template to show you where to cut (leaving as much overlap as possible for strength).

mine was rusted at the bottom of the angled outriggers. i cut the rusted section out, which almost went all the way to the top of the outrigger, and fabricated a "U" channel out of square gal tube, welded overlaps to it to slot into the existing chassis and my mate welded it on with the oxy. neither of us any good with a tig welder.
if i can find the photos, i will put them up.

I have decided to make my own,and by doing it that way i will be able to build what i want in to it.I would love to see those pics as well

thanks for your help.

CHEERS TIM....

The chassis with the bit cut out




the waste bit


the replacement




welded into place



ground back



the finished product, both sides have been done but the LHS needed more cut out, you will notice there is no hole for the jack on the LHS