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CSW side frame repairs, parts?

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Niel:

--- Quote from: "ChrisV8" ---Removed the ally cover panel and ooooooh

Cut three bits of steel, two bent into an angle and the other was a dog leg I already had from a previous repair job.

Welded the first angle section in, then the dog leg and the last angle formed the top and the upstand for the door seal.[/img]

Don't appear to have any pics here but they are here

http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=18226
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Hummm, not sure I'll bother with thin stuff to form a box, Unistrut is 2+mm wall section and galvanised (even got Stainless at work), might as well weld that straight in when I borrow the MIG. Don't think I'll bother with extending the flange for the triangle either, though some sort of shield to stop the spray might be useful?

Now a ready made repair section could be very useful, but with so many different rot patterns It'd have to be quite big to cover the worst.

ChrisV8:
I have used 2mm steel as I had a load left over from daughters RR rebuild. The bent sections were pressed at work as we have a humungous 70 tonne press which was a bit over the top, it can bend 13mm like toffee !

The original steel is very thin normal body work thickness so well worth using thicker as the exposed bit in the wheel arch is getting all the road muck thrown at it.

Niel:

--- Quote from: "ChrisV8" ---I have used 2mm steel as I had a load left over from daughters RR rebuild. The bent sections were pressed at work as we have a humungous 70 tonne press which was a bit over the top, it can bend 13mm like toffee !

The original steel is very thin normal body work thickness so well worth using thicker as the exposed bit in the wheel arch is getting all the road muck thrown at it.
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Sure is, did the otherside last weekend too, MIG on loan to finish!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nieljohn/

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