Chassis

2004 - 1973 = 31 years doesn't it? :-)

I think if I was going to go through all the work involved in re-chassising (is that a real word?) then I'd get a galv one. For the sake of a couple of hundred quid it's gotta be worth it.

My 73 s3 swb diesel has died due tin termites in the chassis. I would like a galv one, but the pennies are in short supply. What is the life expectancy of a standard chassis (roughly).

Tia

Paul

On or around 23 Aug 2004 14:02:55 GMT, Simon Barr enlightened us thusly:

bah. picky.

mind, a really good paint job and internal waxoyling on the chassis before assembly would doubtless work equally well, but might cost nearly as much.

I think I'd tend to agree - the galv ones ain't that much more, and there's the ha'p'orth of tar thing...

Well... Remember that many Series 3s were built during the Steel strike of the 70s - so used very shitty imported crap-as-anything near-metal from 'broad. There was once a quote from someone at Solihull along the lines of "if these last 10 years I'll eat whatever's left". Dunno if anyone ever held him/her to it, mind.

In news:dbnWc.1900$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net, Paul Tasker blithered:

As a rough guess ~30yrs?

Well, as your first one lasted 30 years, I'd say the second one should last somewhere round that.

Good preparation, coating with waxoyl (inside & out), regular inspection and maintenance, including regular cleaning, there's no reason why it shouldn't last 30 years or more.

Alex

Depends where you live. In many parts of Australia, a lot longer than my life expectancy.

Ron Emu Plains, Australia

"Paul Tasker" "What is the life expectancy of a standard chassis (roughly).

ive got a new rear half chassis sat on my garden doing nothing, only been on for abou 12 months, im gointo chop it up with an angle grinder whilst laughing uncontrollaby and very very loudly. but if you want it, its here.

its got absolutely no rust or starting of rust on it.

i stuck a fishing rod on it the other day, but it still looks out of place on my front lawn. i thought of turning it into a water feature with little fountains of water coming out of the outriggers,

but, other than that, its getting CHOPPED,

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...............................

andy

Any chance of a real email address? If Paul doesn't want it, I might. I was just about to order one from Paddocks.

your lucky day...

if you can get here this weekend its yours for Free

im feeling kind, and as i was going to hack it to bits anyway, id rather do a good deed and cheer someone up.

im chopping the rest of it up on wednesday.

e-mail me at

andyatbadlrcdotcom

Mine is atleast 35, and is almost past it. they must have used better metal before the 70's

Hehehe, wish he'd met the original chassis from my 110, he would still have been hungry!

Go galvanised wherever poss, mine was replaced about 7.5 years ago and is now starting to show some very mild surface staining where it's been scraped off-road and where rusty castings bolt on to it etc, no waxoyling has been done on it and it'll probably outlast the rest of the vehicle.

-- Badger. B.H.Engineering, Rover V8 engine specialists.

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They certainly did, I had a '69 that had never been welded some years back, body was rotten (it was ex gas board judging by all the fittings) I sold it as a rolling chassis to some bloke rebuilding a series 3. from my experience of welding work on landys, the steel quality deteriorated very badly about

1975, only starting to recover around 1985! No doubt a lot of you will now be along to tell me "but mine's a 1980 and it's never needed welded, etc", fair comments if so, but I'm only passing on what I've seen.

-- Badger. B.H.Engineering, Rover V8 engine specialists.

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