Galvanised Chassis

Hi All, has anyone fitted or know anyone who has fitted a Galvanised Chassis to a Discovery 2?
I have the chance of an exceptionally tidy Discovery, yet the Chassis has rotted!

One of the LR magazines ran a two-part article on this last year, using a Richards chassis.

Not super-difficult, but you need lots of space and means to lift the body and hold it up while you sort the mechanicals.

Peter

Urban Panzer on here has done it.

I'll be doing it later this year - just waiting to see if the donor chassis has any problems once the body comes off.

RAX1P said:

Hi All, has anyone fitted or know anyone who has fitted a Galvanised Chassis to a Discovery 2?
I have the chance of an exceptionally tidy Discovery, yet the Chassis has rotted!

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derwent dolly! they have had one done some pics aswell

RAX1P said:

Hi All, has anyone fitted or know anyone who has fitted a Galvanised Chassis to a Discovery 2?
I have the chance of an exceptionally tidy Discovery, yet the Chassis has rotted!

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derwendolly! they have had one done some pics aswell

Silly question, how difficult is it to remove the whole body from the chassis and what haz to be done to the new chassis?

DaveDisco2 said:

Silly question, how difficult is it to remove the whole body from the chassis and what haz to be done to the new chassis?

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im doing one at the moment , its not easy i all mounting bolts are rusty and heads to small for sockets and spanners etc plus i made it a little harder by leaving air con intact

Guy at my work is in the middle of a chassis swap on a 10 plate rangerover sport.....

The place is like a bomb site....theres a LOT of bits to swap.

Glad he drew the short straw and it wasnt me He's been given 52 hours for the whole job.

sorry ? 1 2010 RRS is getting a chassis swap ?

DaveDisco2 said:

Silly question, how difficult is it to remove the whole body from the chassis and what haz to be done to the new chassis?

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You'll need a lot of cutting discs for all the rusty bolts that you can't undo, and the biggest expense apart from the chassis is replacing all those special bolts, clips for pipes, things you found when you stripped it etc etc.

Our boys did a defender CSW last year, that actual chassis out took a couple of days, but the refit took ages as they had so many bolts, brackets and pipe fittings to get hold of.

They used scaffolding to hold the body up out of the way while they pulled the chassis out. I posted some pictures on Landyzone a few weeks ago of the job.

I'm colleting bits now for my own swap, but I've had a good chassis waiting to go in for three years, it's been shotblasted and Zinc sprayed and poweder coated. Very solid at the back but you can see where rust has started inside between the stiffener pieces and the chassis rails.

Peter

Dr_evil said:

sorry ? 1 2010 RRS is getting a chassis swap ?

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crashed

Though a lot of bolts through bushes have to be burned off as they are siezed. brake pipes on the body are rotten. ace pipes look like they are going to fall apart.

ahh right thought it had rusted out! was gonna say thats some poor build quality

Thank you all for your replies, I take it, its not a job for the faint hearted!

Drove mine into a friends barn on a thursday at 3 pm, body was off by 10:30 pm, drove it out again sunday at 3 pm.

Not a single bolt cut off. Its pretty straight forward to do, just have to replace the bits needed that you cannot do with the body on. I spent about £300 on genuine parts for the brake pipes, little clips, brackets and inserts etc

Urban Panzer said:

Drove mine into a friends barn on a thursday at 3 pm, body was off by 10:30 pm, drove it out again sunday at 3 pm.

Not a single bolt cut off. Its pretty straight forward to do, just have to replace the bits needed that you cannot do with the body on. I spent about £300 on genuine parts for the brake pipes, little clips, brackets and inserts etc

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have you got any pics, how much did you pay for the chassis ?. thanks