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Recently decided to get the Discovery Waxoyled as I plan on keeping it for a number of years.
Prior to booking it in I wanted to fix and problems before the treatment.
I have noticed that the offside front and nearside rear mud flap brackets were very badly corroded and in fact the front one was non existent.
On closer examination I found this
Front -
Rear -
that was all that was left of the bracket.
I decided rather than buy the brackets to try and fabricate them, they are pricey for what they are and in my opinion not worth the £25 for the front and £45 for the back.
I had recently bought a MIG welder and managed to get hold of the front panels from Storage heaters that a mate had replaced, I was going to use this to practice welding, but it seemed the ideal material to make the flap brackets from.
This is want I managed to come up with
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o623/biggeeeee/100_3843.jpg[/IMG
What I did find was that had I bought replacement parts I doubt very much they would have fitted properly due to the corrosion and would have required additional parts.
The Disco has now been waxolyed and looking much better.
Got the bug at the moment and next job is removing the window runners, to repaint and get rid of the rust.
Prior to booking it in I wanted to fix and problems before the treatment.
I have noticed that the offside front and nearside rear mud flap brackets were very badly corroded and in fact the front one was non existent.
On closer examination I found this
Front -
Rear -
that was all that was left of the bracket.
I decided rather than buy the brackets to try and fabricate them, they are pricey for what they are and in my opinion not worth the £25 for the front and £45 for the back.
I had recently bought a MIG welder and managed to get hold of the front panels from Storage heaters that a mate had replaced, I was going to use this to practice welding, but it seemed the ideal material to make the flap brackets from.
This is want I managed to come up with
http://i1151.photobucket.com/albums/o623/biggeeeee/100_3843.jpg[/IMG
What I did find was that had I bought replacement parts I doubt very much they would have fitted properly due to the corrosion and would have required additional parts.
The Disco has now been waxolyed and looking much better.
Got the bug at the moment and next job is removing the window runners, to repaint and get rid of the rust.