Hi, After stripping my SWB pickup down to gain access to the holes in the chassis I have found that it will need a new one. I have read much about Richards and Designa and Marsland that they no longer make a S111 chassis but cannot find anyone that has bought a Craddock chassis, any advice / reviews would be much appreciated. Cheers Simon
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Thor1950
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Is there another choice? If they are the only one not much choice at all
Have you searched or gong on someone else s word? Just looked at richards and they list them with a price. Give them a call.
Richards is the best BTW
Have you searched or gong on someone else s word? Just looked at richards and they list them with a price. Give them a call.
Richards is the best BTW
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mistericeman
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Craddocks etc AFAIK only act as agents for ?Richards or whoever ...Marslands packed in making Series ones some time back ....
BUT I do know someone that "may" be in the process of setting up to manufacture Series Chassis soon
BUT I do know someone that "may" be in the process of setting up to manufacture Series Chassis soon
Land Raver
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I thought Craddocks & Paddocks sold Richards Chassis. I don't think Marslands make any Series Chassis any more.
honolulujoe
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richards still make the s3 chassis afaik, marsland have stopped
Cheers, the reason i asked was that i thought Craddock were so much cheaper and must be making their own but having read the reply's and revisited Craddocks site i can now see the price i was looking at was for a non galvanized chassis, off to remove wings and bulk head now.
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I spoke to Richards this week, £1,030 (i think) for a galv S3 chassis, plus vat + postage.
Made to order, 6-8 weeks lead time. HTH.
Postage? I bet the postman would be well impressed dragging that up your drive
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If Marslands made them to order, and presumably they still have the drawings, jigs etc. Why would they stop making them? Not good business I would have thought.
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I need to get hold of drawings for series chassis as Ive nearly bought a s3 that needs a chassis and naturally I want to make my own
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I would love to get me hands on some proper drawings, I have spent many hours looking but can't find any. As I'm sure you know the workshop manual drawings aren't to scale. The nearest I have found is the LWB coach builders drawing but you couldn't make an accurate chassis of that either.
If you could get a drawing it is a straight forward job, the one I made I didn't struggle with distortion and it didn't take long to do so for a man of your capability a piece of cake. Quite enjoyable too.
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I was hoping you would join in owl in hope you had a secret drawing!
Trouble is you could make a accurate jig off one and make drawings off it but the cost would kill it
Trouble is you could make a accurate jig off one and make drawings off it but the cost would kill it
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I ended up taking templates of a good chassis (I couldn't get accurate profiles of the drawing) and using the coach builders drawing for general dimensions, then when I had a full length template I used that to make my jig which was just a welding table with a 2"x2" section bolted to each end. It was ok for a one off but I would want something better for production.
