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chassis - change or not?

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muddyjames:
My dico cost me £800 in repairs 2 days after I bought mine due to the crankshaft pulley not being on tight enough. Highly annoying as a VERY well known landy garage changed the alterntator belt and air con belt the day after I bought it and they didnt notice the pulley was loose. Grrrr

They are money eaters and keep on wondering why I have mine.

way2deep:
think the chassis won't be your only problem.....looking at the pics i dare say it's gonna be a real sod trying to get any of the bolts undone too...looks a nightmare,makes me realise how good me chassis is

blackbeltbob:
way2deep - thanks for cheering me up some more :D  :D

edge - I like your thinking  :D  :D

spoke to another man in the know yesterday who had some good ideas eg tubular chassis so I will try and look into them today and keep you posted

BigMark:
Keri said
--- Quote ---Were rebuilding it atm on the drive
--- End quote ---


What No Garage?

You need a "Help blackbeltbob fix his landy, party/holiday"  :D

Id go to that one.. Looks really bad to me mate, what you have to do is decide if for that 5-6k wether you could buy the landy you want or indeed build the landy you want. Id rather build the one i want but thats me and im a little strange.

Nobber:
if you fit a tubular chassis you will probably have to q plate it.
Ive just finished a chassis swap , it wasn't just the chassis though , it was the bulkhead , doors , seat box , tranny tunnel , suspension , steering , axles , etc etc etc.
a chassis swap is only a chassis swap , you will still have the same landy except its got a different chassis , don't be expecting a new landy.
if i had it to do all over again id assess the situation a bit better , i.e. the vehicles overall condition (a crap landy with a new chassis will still be a crap landy), time (do i have 6 - 8 months to rebuild a crap landy) , can i afford it ( a chassis isn't very much money , neither is a bulkhead , neither are doors , neither are brakes , etc etc etc , but all together....).

how is your engine , gearbox/transfer box , axles , brakes , steering etc.
Ive spent nearly 4k on mine and i haven't even got round to buying door seals for it yet, IL probably have to buy a new gear box first due to excessive main shaft wear (just replaced the output gear and bearings so its fingers crossed but I'm just minimising the damage at the end if the day) and i don't even want to write a list of the parts i need to make my landy drive like a decent one. the problem Ive got now is i don't want to cut my losses because its taken me nearly 4k and well over 350 hours work on a drive in the open through winter to get where i am now, the owner of a landy that i still cant rely on.

if i could offer any advice it would be to definitely assess the condition of your vehicle before replacing the chassis, as i said , a re chassied landy that has more than one thing wrong with it will still have more than one thing wrong with it after you have spent all that dosh.

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