Mud-club
Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: MudLifeCrisis on April 20, 2009, 20:22:53
-
Any idea how easy/hard and cost involved to repair this on a series 3
Thanks
Brian
-
more
-
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:
-
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.
-
Thanks for the replies, thinking of buying so need to cost it to see it's viable
Brian.
-
Well unless holes actually appear when you attack it with a screwdriver, it may be a case of cleaning up the surfaces and painting.
-
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
-
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
-
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: