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Dave:
Would love to restore it. It's cost and weather as i have no garage to work in so i might sorn it off the road for summer and do it in the sun :wink:. Will have to give it some thought.
What am i likely to come up against other than a new chassis.
hobbit:
The next main piece that is a pain is the bulkhead, until you start stripping, you dont know, a partial strip may be in order to see what stays in the right pieces, then you can decide what to do, if you find it will need too much, you can finish off the strip and sell the good bits
Mace:
Dave, I see the plot thickens. OK I'll try to be brief, the 90 I bought around the same time, suffered the same problem but 11 months on. At it's 1st MOT in my ownership. I went nuts !!! I kept it SORN for 3 months whilst I debated whether to repair of break her. A good friend of mine eventually managed to weld up the two major points on the chassis by making L shaped sections to go around the chassis rail to re-form the box section. The hardest point was finding enough solid metal to weld to. We went way beyond the area that needed repair.
Anyway, 15 months on from that day, she's still on the road, still has a valid MOT and all was not lost. I wouldn't recommend paying a them or any other garage to either repair or re-chassis the Series. Find yourself a nice chap who loves welding and is willing to spend the time and effort on getting it right. I'm sure one will turn up on this forum if you ask nicely :-)
I wonder if you bought the Series vehicle I looked at at the time but was swayed by this nice rebuilt shiny blue 90....yeah right. No, don't get me started, my list of complaints was HUGE !!!!
Chin-up mate
Andy
James.Harwood:
Plate it, we are in the middle of repairing a 90 with knackered chassi, make sure you cut all the rot out first, you may need to take off a lot more metal than you would expect but makes life easier, use cornflakes packets to make templates :wink:
landroverkeith:
Feel for ya m8 my series went the same wat recently too now she`s just sitting in the garage.......... :cry:
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