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REAR CROSS MEMBER ON 90 DEFENDER

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muddydisco:
HI

JUST WONDERING HOW MUCH ROUGHLY TO HAVE A CROSSMEMBER FITTED ON A 90 DEFENDER. HER THEY A PRONE TO CORRSION

                                     THANKS

datalas:
Cross member itself is upwards of £170 (for the replacement part), a garage would undoubtedly charge quite a premium for fitting, since it's quite and involved job even if you realise you can do it without taking the rear tub off.

I'd guess at anywhere around £500...  or at least, I wouldn't be overly shocked if it were above that.

landyman Ash:
If you can weld its quite an easy job and can be quite cheap.  Paddocks sell them for £115 and its actually quite and easy job.  Ive done it myself BUT it does rely on you welding it.  At ata garage you are looking £500+  
Join a local club and I can assure you someone will be able to help you.  Thats what happens in our club anyway
  :D

graham2306:
Replacing the cross member on my seriess III cost about £120 in total.  If what you say is true I'm glad my 90 has a galvanised chassis!

Can't see how it can be more complicated than a seriess III, the springs had to come off to do that and you wouldn't have that problem with a 90.  Biggest issue seems to be how far does the rust go?  Is it just a cross member or a quarter or half chassis.  We bought a cross member for the series III an ended up fabricating chassis bits.

datalas:
The only real complication comes with land rover's tendancy to run the wiring loom inside the chassis rail..

coupled with the fact that it is quite a sizable chunk you're cutting out and so it's not really a job for the feint hearted.

having said that, it is harder on a series since you have the problem that if you're not carefull you end up with an 88" on the one side only.

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