land rover chassis ?

couple of hours. Steve the grease

I think that there is a diagram with measurements on in the back of the haynes book

Alan,

There is a good diagram in the Land Rover Workshop manual. best bet is to buy a rotten chassis at somewhere like Old Sodbury and copy it.(23rd October at Newbury Showground)

There are some very good copies already made and galvanised. See LRO this month as they have just purchsed a new chassis for M1LRO after its little crash from Designachassis on 01302 341153. Land Rover will also supply a new series chassis. The bends in a series chassis are hard to copy as its two channels bent into U section but the frame rails curve as well. All the outriggers need to be in the right places. The tooling needed is quite complex. These specialists will make them up to 5mm thick and add any extra bits you need in the making.

J Kaye

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Only on some S3 production. All of S1, S2, S2a and a lot of S3 have the rails made from four flat plates welded at the corners. And I'll bet this is how all the copies are made. The chassis with rails built from four flat plates and those with pressed channel rails welded along the centre top and bottom are interchangeable.

But you are right about the need for accuracy and the difficulty of doing it "one off". As a further problem the welding sequence is critical if you want to end up with a straight chassis. JD

I thought the 88" chassis are made of four flat plates but the 109" chassis are made with a seam top and bottom?

Richard

On or around Fri, 27 Aug 2004 17:38:47 GMT, "alan" enlightened us thusly:

I bet you can't build one for much less than a bought-in one, if you cost it properly, and even if you don't charge your time, it's still gonna cost you a packet in materials.

Which isn't to say that you can't make *a* chassis to go under a LR body fairly easily, but personally, I'd not try to duplicate the original, it's far too much of a hassle.

Haynes books have chassis drawings, or mine does. Whether you could scale it accurately I don't know, but it has a lot of the dimensions.

On or around Sun, 29 Aug 2004 06:35:24 +1000, JD enlightened us thusly:

That's why I'd not copy the original, but make a different one. Given the dimensions of the critical points, a tubular spaceframe ought to be possible, like a Bowler.

It just so happens I have a copy of an original land rover drawing of Series 2A chassis. It even has the crucial dimensional information missing from the one in the Haynes and LR manuals.

Its for a SWB, I might even have a LWB version.

Is there much interest in scanning it in and having it digitised - its quite a large drawing? Steamcoaster

i would like a copy of this if at all possible....

I could certainly do with a copy of both SWB and LWB versions, as I will be embarking on a custom chassis project next year. I would be more than happy to pay you to to have them copied for me, if there is no mileage in a digital copy.

Alex

Yes please - scannned and online would be awesome.

if you can get a good copy of it to me I will do a 3d cad drawing of it. I saw a home made chassis the bloke made a pretty well exact copy of a series III chassis, looked very good and cost a couple of sheets of

-- richard

On or around 4 Sep 2004 19:34:50 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@integerspin.co.uk (richard) enlightened us thusly:

seriously heavy, then... the original, IIRC, is 14 gauge which is about 2mm.