The bit thats under the footwell

d9022 · Oct 8, 2013

No... not another footwell thread, lets talk about the the piece of "U" shaped
thing that runs down the side goes under the footwells and ends up squished between the A post and the sill. Mines shot to hell by the tin worm and any thread you look at has no mention of that piece.
Is it a piece that you can buy or am I going to have to fabricate a new one?

Blackburn · Oct 8, 2013

Is it this part you are after.
Land Rover Defender 90 & Series SWB Sill Rail o/s - YRM Metal Solutions
Runs from rear of door frame to base of bulkhead.
This company makes both sides.

oxides · Oct 8, 2013

Part nos. 330380 and 330381. A quick google finds some suppliers selling them for about £50 each.

oxides · Oct 8, 2013

Blackburn said:
Is it this part you are after.
Land Rover Defender 90 & Series SWB Sill Rail o/s - YRM Metal Solutions
Runs from rear of door frame to base of bulkhead.
This company makes both sides.

Actually, at that price I'm tempted to replace my rotten ones...

d9022 · Oct 8, 2013

No not that bit, hang on let me go and take a photo.

d9022 · Oct 8, 2013

Here you go

Blackburn · Oct 8, 2013

Never seen that before what model / year is your landrover

wickford90 · Oct 8, 2013

Looks like reinforcing of some kind, not military by any chance

oxides · Oct 8, 2013

Fairly sure I haven't got those on mine.

honolulujoe · Oct 8, 2013

is that part of an earlier footwell that someone has left in place maybe to get a bit more leg room?

d9022 · Oct 8, 2013

It's an 1984 88

blue beasty · Oct 8, 2013

Not got anything like that on my 88 or 109?? Some mods where made post '80 but not seen repair sections with them either

d9022 · Oct 8, 2013

honolulujoe said:
is that part of an earlier footwell that someone has left in place maybe to get a bit more leg room?

No I've a old 109 bulkhead an it's got the same.

mrchurchill109 · Oct 9, 2013

Never seen that before, either. DUmb question - this isn;t a Santana or some other variant, is it? i've repaired more than a few footwells and never seen a reinforcement like that.

Were it me I'd be tempted to replace 'em with bits of 1" square tube if i replaced them at all.

ajr

d9022 · Oct 10, 2013

It is a LR Santana. I was under the impression that the series LR Santana's
were an exact copy of the original LR. I have a couple of footwell's that I bought years ago and yesterday found out that they have slight differences too. So this afternoon I made a 40" Brake and I'll have a go at fabricating
footwell's. That should be fun

Thor1950 · Oct 10, 2013

d9022 said:
It is a LR Santana. I was under the impression that the series LR Santana's
were an exact copy of the original LR. I have a couple of footwell's that I bought years ago and yesterday found out that they have slight differences too. So this afternoon I made a 40" Brake and I'll have a go at fabricating
footwell's. That should be fun

not exact at all was under license. so some parts are some not. Santana part are like hens teeth. If you can find one buy it for a doner. There is 1 breaker of santana.s in UK I believe

Santana Parts & Spares from car breakers & scrap yards

mrchurchill109 · Oct 10, 2013

AHA! I KNEW IT!

Now that we have the "Huh?" factor out of the way, as you say I'd just make them. They're not a complex object - bend a channel, cut and weld a 90-degree on the end.

As far as making footwells, being out here in the Colonies that's normal procedure if you want something that isn't utter crap. The ones on my 109 are made of heavy-gauge galvanized steel. I did the job with basically hand tools - made paper patterns of the bits I needed (everything including the upper reinforcing panel), added tabs to the patterns to allow for welding, cut the blanks out with a jigsaw with a steel-cutting blade, finish-sanded the edges to clean up burrs, then bent them up using a cheap brake.

Ground back the galvanizing, welded it up, then covered the finished welds with cold galvanizing paint (epoxy based and 95%zinc).

They've been in place for nearly a decade and many years now and still look as good as the day i painted it up.

You will do fine.

ajr

blue beasty · Oct 10, 2013

Thor1950 said:
not exact at all was under license. so some parts are some not. Santana part are like hens teeth. If you can find one buy it for a doner. There is 1 breaker of santana.s in UK I believe

Santana Parts & Spares from car breakers & scrap yards

OP int in the UK

Thor1950 · Oct 10, 2013

blue beasty said:
OP int in the UK

He can order parts from them

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