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200 Tdi Budget off-road alterations - advice please

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Range Rover Blues:
Of course they can be made, someone is doing it somewhere after all, but you can buy copies of the QWT guards on flea bay so cheap it's not worth the time to cut them out by hand and bend them.

Ja1983:
angry grinder.... ebay..... "steves site".....car boots/auto jumble.......

Disco Matt:
Bear in mind that the standard rover diff guards won't fit on the back of a Disco - the fuel tank is too close to the axle.

clbarclay:
Cheapest diff guards I've come across provided you can weld are my own, £10 got me a couple of new pressure vessel end caps. 6mm thick and the right material for weld to.

A cheap and quite often seen on tiralers variation on the steering gurad is a simple tube design which consists of a couple of tubes coming vertically down from the chassis to a horivontal tube. a couple of diagonal tubes between the vertivle tubes and the chassis help spread the loads more evenly to the chassis.

Personanlly I'm not a big fan of steering guards so I just sleeved the track rod and drag link with tube. Not as strong as some of the Heavy duty rods on the market, but strong enough and I already had some box section the right size to hand. By the sound of it this disco will not see the public highway againg, except for on a trailer, so the steering damper can just be removed and the bracket on the track rod cut off. Mine is still a road car so I welded the track rod braket onto the drag link box section sleeve and made a simple braket that bolted to the chassis to relocate the damper to a defender esque position.

Again if this is an out and out off roader then why not lose most of the body that is superfluace front and rear. Have a look on LR4x4 forum for rogue vogue made by Nick Watt. basically he just cut away the body leaving just the bulkhead, windscreen and floorpan under the driver from a RRC, replacing the rest with an 8 point roll cage. Its a little drafty to look at but it depends what your priorities are.


If you are goign to lose a lot of weight then leave the springs standard, at least to start with. Certainly if you fit the typical heavy duty lift springs you may find them far too stiff for a lightened vehicle.

If you are goint to make a heavy duty or winch bumper then I have some CAD models for the plates for bolting to the chassis for 6 bolt mouning.

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