bluedog333
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Funny you say that, if you buy a 110 chassis from Britpart, it’ll be a Richards!
Problems with Richard's Chassis
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I have been round the Richards chassis production line when I picked my chassis up. They are jig built and do have a laser cutter. Can’t comment why they might have made mistakes with certain chassis but i’m sure if you contact them they will sort you out. The service I received when buying my chassis was faultless and they said to ring if I ran into any issues.
Im surprised that you have not read anything bad about RC before, it certainly comes up quite often across the various land rover forums.
I was only reading one the other day on the series 2 forum.
If you put Richards Chassis issues into the search box on this forum, you will have some good reading.
Me and a mate rechassised his 90 with a RC one and there were quite a few bits that didnt ft properly, bulkhead was a real pita.
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Contact them again. Talk to them about the problem. Ask them to come and see it.
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Yeah, it's a bit of an eye opener.
When I mentioned it on my rebuild thread there were plenty of similar tales. As lynall says, I should image a search on LZ will highlight a few.
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Thanks for that.
It'll give me something to do tomorrow, instead of working
Luckily, my chassis is in pretty good nick, but I am planning on doing a ground up rebuild in the next couple of years - for fun
Been randomly looking at various chassis reviews over past few months on different sites and RC & Marsland always seem to get good writeups
Oh.....Jeez why is spending money wisely, so difficult?
You could also try Shielder Chassis's; they're new to the market and was very impressed with the quality of them at the LRO show this year.Thanks for that.
It'll give me something to do tomorrow, instead of working
Luckily, my chassis is in pretty good nick, but I am planning on doing a ground up rebuild in the next couple of years - for fun
Been randomly looking at various chassis reviews over past few months on different sites and RC & Marsland always seem to get good writeups
Oh.....Jeez why is spending money wisely, so difficult?
Avoid shielder. Search the forum for them. There was a thread only a few days ago about them.
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They aren't that new to the market, they have been making them for years in Northern Ireland, and have been at the LRO show before this year as well.
No idea how long they have been selling them over here, but at least 3 years.
I didn't see it, but I am a bit surprised, the several chassis that they had brought to the LRO show looked very good, and their website has a lot of testimonials from satisfied customers.
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Didn't have that problem, but my passenger side tubular outrigger was half an inch too close to the rear cross member, this meant the tub didn't it on that side. ie there was a half inch gap between the upright from the outrigger and the face of the tub the outrigger bolts to. Fortunately, it was out that way and so I could pack it with a half inch thick bit of steel plate. If it had been out the other way the tub just wouldn't have fitted in. I would then have been looking at removing all of the axles and and suspension components in order to strip the chassis back down to send it back
I had the same problem with mine, both outriggers were too far back (15 & 20mm) Easier to make packers and get on with it than trying to return.
Picked mine up from their place, spoke to Alistair, he took me round the workshop where they were doing chassis swaps and shown me some of the projects he was up to.
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15 & 20mm That's a long way!
As well as the jig work being questionable it makes you wonder about the QC procedures.
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15 & 20mm That's a long way!
Landrovers aren't exactly known to be precision engineering. Even on new vehicles the paint was orange peeley, and lots of gaps were filled in with washers or sealant.
Like he says^^^^^^^^^^^, best is just to make some packing pieces and get on. They have to err on the side of caution, as you commented earlier, if they make the gap too small, the tub won't fit in, and the tubs probably have quite a variance of sizes as well.
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15 & 20mm That's a long way!
They look like they're in the right position in the chassis but appear to be kind of angled backwards when you eye them up.
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Probably moved a bit while they were being welded.
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Yeah, but even LR quality control wouldn't let 20mm adrift pass QC on an outrigger.
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Yeah, but even LR quality control wouldn't let 20mm adrift pass QC on an outrigger.
You think they had quality control??
Bear in mind also that the reason Rover stopped galvanising chassis in 1949 was because they were worried about the tendency of chassis to distort during hot dip galvanising.
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That's interesting....You think they had quality control??
Bear in mind also that the reason Rover stopped galvanising chassis in 1949 was because they were worried about the tendency of chassis to distort during hot dip galvanising.
Wonder if you can buy a "new" chassis that isn't galvanised.....and then get it electroplated instead?
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You could buy, or make a new chassis, and get it coated with thick plastic, which is what G-Wagens did, and the chassis on them last for donkey's years.
Or just give it some well applied paint coatings outside, and a good dosing of cavity wax inside, which is what Land Rovers went to after the initial galv episode.
Trouble is, they didn't do that very well either, a conscientious owner can do a much better job.
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I was recently talking to someone clever, about why nobody has ever made a Stainless steel chassis - apart from cost.
He reckons large areas of Stainless touching small areas of aluminium is a "bad" thing (accelerated corrosion), however stainless screws etc - small bits of stainless touching large bits of aluminium is OK.
Hence, my signature block - when I win the euromillions I'm going to get a bespoke made Titanium Chassis........it may be a while until you see that thread.!
He reckons large areas of Stainless touching small areas of aluminium is a "bad" thing (accelerated corrosion), however stainless screws etc - small bits of stainless touching large bits of aluminium is OK.
Hence, my signature block - when I win the euromillions I'm going to get a bespoke made Titanium Chassis
........it may be a while until you see that thread.!Similar threads
