Thirty one year old chassis

tottot · Sep 5, 2021

I have been asked a couple of times on the forum for pics of my 90's chassis to show the effect of treating it to a once a year clean, dry and then spray with engine oil and diesel mix inside and out. Most of the time it is covered in sh1t but it's that MOT time again. Keep in mind this is a working farm truck that lives next to the sea.
PIC 1 The red plate was welded in years ago to prevent crud building up in the rear crossmember and rotting out the rear plate. Repair seen in PIC2. PIC 3 Only repair on a main rail. PIC5 A diff that has met a hard welsh rock two

Pic6 is of ns footwell, cover flap pulled away showing original paint. Pic 9 main ns rail and original battery box.

A MAIN R

kevstar · Sep 5, 2021

So you taking bookings for chassis cleaning and treatments.

Al2O3 · Sep 6, 2021

tottot said:
I have been asked a couple of times on the forum for pics of my 90's chassis to show the effect of treating it to a once a year clean, dry and then spray with engine oil and diesel mix inside and out. Most of the time it is covered in sh1t but it's that MOT time again. Keep in mind this is a working farm truck that lives next to the sea.
PIC 1 The red plate was welded in years ago to prevent crud building up in the rear crossmember and rotting out the rear plate. Repair seen in PIC2. PIC 3 Only repair on a main rail. PIC5 A diff that has met a hard welsh rock two Pic6 is of ns footwell, cover flap pulled away showing original paint. Pic 9 main ns rail and original battery box.View attachment 247360 A MAIN RView attachment 247376 View attachment 247377 View attachment 247378 View attachment 247379 View attachment 247380 View attachment 247381 View attachment 247383
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Top work.

Zed. · Sep 6, 2021

thats the way to do it

got a similar chassis condition on our '86 Ninety, previous owner bought it on demob & oiled the shit out of it, lived near York on a farm and towed a hoss around so had an easy life

worthwhile task & sorts the issue of oil disposal

Rich.

tottot · Sep 7, 2021

100 plus views in just over 24hrs,

If anyone is wondering about the white crystal stuff on the chassis in the bottom pic it is the result of some marine anti rust stuff, err obtained from the local harbour.

Marmaduke · Sep 7, 2021

41 year old jeep chassis. Never been welded and because it's not all box section like a defender or series it lets the water and crud out so it doesn't rot from the inside.

tottot · Sep 7, 2021

When the Land Rover was first developed by Maurice Wilks the prototype was based on a Jeep chassis. Problem was the alloy body parts kept cracking due to the flexing of the Jeep chassis [ something that assisted the jeep in its very good cross country ability ] And so the 80" had a box chassis. The first vehicles had galvanised chassis. Shame it was dropped when full production started.
Still local to me is my grandads 1929 Austin 10, Still going ,never restored and has U frame chassis.

tottot · Sep 9, 2021

200 plus views.

tottot · Sep 15, 2021

MOT passed no issues.

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