Creating a hybrid chassis

ee did ee said why are the left & right sides made in one piece!!

redhand said:

ee did ee said why are the left & right sides made in one piece!!

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Er, so, how do they do that then, bend 'em around th frunt OR THE FEKIN BACK?

now yer bin pedantic!!!!

mebbe tis a single piece bended at the front and the back like a big solid ring, formd by hand from a block of steel by a man with a file

yella said:

mebbe tis a single piece bended at the front and the back like a big solid ring, formd by hand from a block of steel by a man with a file

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Ahh, see now that'd be good wun't it.

fook aye, speshly if he then carved his name ito it with a hammer an chisel

dunt think he'd churn many oot in a wik tho

Ee wunt have to. Bespoke item like that. People would pay loads fer one 'o them.

Thanks Grippa, no offence but have you ever seen a 4x4 other than a Landy? Most Japanese 4X4 such as Troopers, Shoguns Fourtracks etc have coil sprung fronts and leaf rears as do nearly every car derived and purpose built van. I am not intending to angle grind two chassis and butt weld them end to end with a seam! I don't think Designa Chassis use a single piece of steel??
If was interested in the straightforward and obvious I wouldn't have asked the question and if I wasn't 'Stoopid' I would have stuck with my 24yr old G Wagen whose chassis was like a 6 month old Landy's.

Redhand, the steering question was in response to the suggestion that I just repair the Series chassis, keep the leaves then try to add a 90 front axle to give me Disc Brakes, wider track and power steering.
Thanks for your assistance though guys.

chip000 said:

Thanks Grippa, no offence but have you ever seen a 4x4 other than a Landy? Most Japanese 4X4 such as Troopers, Shoguns Fourtracks etc have coil sprung fronts and leaf rears as do nearly every car derived and purpose built van.

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No offence taken, but they were designed like that, not cobbled together..........no offence meant.

and another thing................what percentage of Landies do you reckon still have a chassis with the same piece of steel running from one end to the other? And how many have horrendous corrosion that the MOT didn't find - like mine?
I take on board what you say but I really not a daft amateur trying to kill my son. I was after advice on the technical challenges. If I do create a bespoke hybrid chassis it will be properly engineered and safe. By way of analogy I had an HGV tractor unit extended by Chassis Developments to become a Tipper lorry carrying 10 tons. All approved and tested.

hgv chassis are drilled and riveted as well as welded. are you going to go down the same route. not sure if what you want to do wouldf be legal, but it would have to pass sva,unless its just for off road use.

Brother did that to four trucks including a tractor unit for recovery work. but he had two halves of the same trucks to play with not 2 completly different vehicles. All the dimensions for series and defender chassis are available in workshop manuals and online I'd get hold of the and compare dimensions before I worried about anything else. As I said the axle conversion has been done before if you google it it'll come up. I still think your biggest problem will be DVLA (it'll be a Q plate at least) and Insurance (few if any will touch it. None will insure a teenager to drive it and I don't think any will give you fully comp cover on it.)

I mite be coming to this rather late - but why not get a coil sprung 88" chassis from designa- chassis - yu can then build it proper with deependa bits.

Ok I give in. I'll do just that.

The Mad Hat Man said:

I mite be coming to this rather late - but why not get a coil sprung 88" chassis from designa- chassis - yu can then build it proper with deependa bits.

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thems no good bugger all lines up on em,
did ya know the britpart galved chassis is coming from richards chassis,s

un cheers for the bits i aint had a look at em yet though

chip000 said:

Ok I give in. I'll do just that.

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You sound a bit annoyed , but I think the guys here mean that everything is doable , but ask yourself if it's advisable , and like some others try to explain : do your homework before taking the job on and take measures , compare and see where the problems will be.
Also it's very advisable to find out what the DVLA and so allows you to do.
It's clear that the bonding part is more important to you than cost or time so in that perspective DO IT , it's a good idea.
I've seen the strangest things happening on cars , trucks and 4x4's so about anything is possible and creativity and perserverance goes a long way.

Now go about it and have fun

Cheers Robbke. No I'm not annoyed at all. I was just after some technical tips or experiences. I'm a 40yr old professional with a fair degree of LR and engineering experience so I'm not intending to do anything daft and thought the members might have tried variations on this theme. The written word doesn't give true reflection of humour!

eh! all this talk about not having one piece chassis rails, does that mean that anyone that has fitted a half chassis or 1/4 chassis repair part has a dangerous vehicle?

ah reckon you should do it just fer the hell of it, even if it means yer have to alter the width of the front end, to line up.

folk have bin building and modifying chassisesesess fer as long as chassisesesesses have bin built.
yer just gotta be 100% sure that you can do it safely and offer a sacrifice to thoses that control yer use of vehicles on the public road.

it may be, after you do it that the only place you can use it will be on private ground

chip000 said:

Cheers Robbke. No I'm not annoyed at all. I was just after some technical tips or experiences. I'm a 40yr old professional with a fair degree of LR and engineering experience so I'm not intending to do anything daft and thought the members might have tried variations on this theme. The written word doesn't give true reflection of humour!

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Humor is a goooood thing .
Like Slob says , it's done before and will be done many times more , ever seen a bigfoot with an original chassis and you see them on the road , so it can be done but like Slob also points out , what can you build legaly , i don't know how it works in England but here in Portugal your in trouble if you have your car lowerd or have wide wheels so i assume that in England there will be some rules about what you can do with a chassis , other than that i can see no problems and i know from experience that it's a lot of fun building something like that