Rear Crossmember Replacment

Hi, need a new rear crossmember as mine has totally rusted thru! (managed to put a plastic handle of a brush through it ). Have heard bad things about britpart replacments, but £300 for a devon "heavy duty" one seems a bit steep, though the truck does do a lot of off roading, anyone got any advice on where to get a decent one from at a reasonable price?? cheers

if you off road it alot then i would personally fabricate a custom one which solves alot of the problems the normal ones have. or have someone else make one. £300 is alot of money!

The britpart ones are flimsy and don't fit. I had a bearmach one which fit better but was still flimsy. If you do any serious towing or recovery off road make one out of some proper steel.

i have just done my rear cross member on my 110. i too thought that the prices were very high and so chose to fabricate my own. a local steel work company bent up a piece of 3mm sheet into the basic U channel and then i went from there. they charged me £25 which included a rumage around in their scrap bin for all the other bits i needed... it too me around six hours to fabricate including welding it to the back of the 110. i chose to completely remive the tub and am glad i did as it made things alot easier - obviously the fuel tank had to come off aswell (empty it before you unbolt it - very heavy otherwise especially if you're sat underneath it..!). my only word of warning with this approach is that the five tabs which connect the tub to the x-member should be bolted to the tub and then welded to the x-member otherwise you may have a job matching them up... good luck.

tubular steel bar at 2 inch? maybe, just a though. very very easy and cheap!

im sure someone on this forum recently took their 90 to this place..

LAND ROVER 110 REAR CROSSMEMBER WITH EXTENSIONS on eBay (end time 20-Feb-10 13:23:37 GMT)

where they supplied & fitted it for about £350

They posted a thread asking us to comment on the quality of the welding. Or perhaps it was another forum?

Ive just found the thread
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/replace-rear-crossmember-can-i-ask-audience-95108.html

LeadFarmer said:

im sure someone on this forum recently took their 90 to this place..

LAND ROVER 110 REAR CROSSMEMBER WITH EXTENSIONS on eBay (end time 20-Feb-10 13:23:37 GMT)

where they supplied & fitted it for about £350

They posted a thread asking us to comment on the quality of the welding. Or perhaps it was another forum?

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Yes..it was me.
Will need to Hammerite the back and waxoyle once weather improves. This is a 3mm 'heavy duty' the standard replacement is 2mm. But if you are trying to rip off your xmember off roading and trying to pull extreme stuff then I don't know if its the right one for you. It is fine for sensible stuff.