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Monkeymick

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Hi All

Landy is due in for an MOT in a month, and all should be well apart from what I believe to be the sills (I'm an idiot - and used to use the REME to fix my company wagon....)

Anyway, on a day out through the week, the cack footed missus managed to kick off the strip of metal with the rolled lip that the door seal SHOULD have been fastened to - after having kicked that off a while ago... The strip of metal appeared to have rusted badly, and is obviously no good...

The metal underneath (body of the landy) seems to have light surface rust, which I can clean off with no problems. The strip with the rolled lip needs replaced. Are these parts available, or can I replace them with stainless steel angle from Metal Supermarket and rivet them on?

Any help would be appreciated. I can take and attach pics if I havent explained what I was on about very well....

Cheers

MM
 
You can fabricate and rivet it if you want, after all it's not the most challenging of pieces to fabricate.

Or you could get one from a breaker. I must admit I've not seen them in the aftermarket, but then I've never had to look for one.
 
Thats what i figured, but after a browse on here and other forums people have been saying there were quoted up to £775 for the parts!

Cheers.
 
Defender 110 Sill replacement, I have a replacement from YRM... released sill and front and at the back, I cant see any way to cut the welds to the pillar in the middle which I believe is the best way to do it.. Any pointers ? I read what little there is on the internet that it should be a simple nick with the grinder left and right of the pillar and it should release. I can only do this if I go through the pillar face plate etc.
 
Why cut??? the tabs at the bottom of the pillar are spot welded to the sill, spot weld drill bit is what you need here, then just plug weld it back to the new sill.
 
It cant be spot welded surely, as there isn't anything to attach it that way. Its essentially an upright to a horizontal so I don't understand how its spot welded.
{}Pillar
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=================== SILL
 
Here's one of mine waiting to be welded together, note the holes where I drilled out the spot welds
 

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Great isn't it??? Actually that's just one side, There are two one side, three the other, plus on the top there's two more flaps with 2 each. So nine spot welds.
 
Now I am fully confused as to where they are, Do I need a spot weld drill ? Surely a normal would do ? How did you find the locations.

2 on the front
3 where ?

Where are the flaps ?
 
I don't have my pillar to hand as its being blasted. So ive drawn you a picture. Hope it becomes clear now, although I couldn't be arsed to draw in 3d so you will have to use your imagination for the back. A normal drill will do for this because you don't want the sill.

When drilling out spot welds, if you want the piece you are drilling through but not the piece behind, a normal drill is fine, if you want the piece behind then a spot drill is better because you won't drill into/through it.
 
I will get pics tomorrow :)

TBH the shocking state I only needed to drill one front one and a couple of top ones and the rest fell apart....

Thank you for your help, I found SO little on t'internet about removing this I was amazed how simple it was.
 
I think I was extremely lucky that mine had all nine welds intact, some I've seen don't even have any of the post left, never mind the welds.
 
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