help please

[MudLifeCrisis]

Any idea how easy/hard and cost involved to repair this on a series 3

Thanks

Brian

[MudLifeCrisis]

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[landy_bug]

depending on your welding experiance it can be realitivly straight forward, but with all series be prepared to open up a can of worms. try the likes of paddock spares/ john craddock for prices on the footwell repair panels i think i paid around £13 for this and welded it myself, novice welder but now improving with alot more welding :lol:

[Rich_P]

Relatively straight forwards to repair the bulkhead in those areas, and are very common rot places on all utility Land Rovers (Defenders suffer the exact same problems).  It's just a time consuming job to get it right.

Last I heard the company that made these replacement parts for bulkheads and such had gone under earlier last year?  What I do know is that someone in the Series 2 Club are making ribbed original items rather than the flimsy pattern version that are merely straight bits of steel bent to shape.

[MudLifeCrisis]

Thanks for the replies, thinking of buying so need to cost it to see it's viable

Brian.

[Rich_P]

Well unless holes actually appear when you attack it with a screwdriver, it may be a case of cleaning up the surfaces and painting.

[TBM]

Relatively straight forwards to repair the bulkhead in those areas, and are very common rot places on all utility Land Rovers (Defenders suffer the exact same problems).  It's just a time consuming job to get it right.

Last I heard the company that made these replacement parts for bulkheads and such had gone under earlier last year?  What I do know is that someone in the Series 2 Club are making ribbed original items rather than the flimsy pattern version that are merely straight bits of steel bent to shape.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Land-rover-series-2-2a-3-footwell_W0QQitemZ150338104752QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item150338104752&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

[crazymac]

There's a nice write up in this months LRO of the repair proceedure.

Do do a "Proper" job, you really need to take the bulkhead off!

Paddocks, britpart or YRM solutions can do the panels

[discowoman]

Buy a Later model 'NEW' bulkhead from a defender- do the transmission tunnel mod - and paint it , and for about £300 you have a bukhead that solid and should last decades..price that up against a 'new' series bulkhead  :shock: