Drizz

Drizz

Well-Known Member
Soooooooooo.....

I started building a Defender over the last 4yrs but had a change of heart, Sold it all and bought some Disco's!

Firstly i bought a shed of a 3dr:







It kept overheating, so replaced the head and got it going lovely, 200'd the front end and had some enjoyment:







but with all the rot it inevitably ended up like this:








So bought another:







I sold the off-road bits off it and fitted the following mods:

Terrafirma +5" Extreme shocks
+2" Bearmach Springs
Front dislocation cones
X-Eng Wide angle A-frame ball joint
X-Eng rear arms
X-Eng X-springs
Defender steering set up
Teflon Swivels with Castor correction
Janspeed exhaust
10x15 ET-50 Modulers with Insa Super Special Tracks
+2.5" Spring seats
200TDi rear prop (no cush)
Shallower front winch bumper (6" shallower then the original)
Defender arches with a lot cut out for clearance
Plus more.....








The ongoing plan was to galv a chassis and do the swap with more mods at the same time.
Then this appeared on eBay nice and local so i brought it home:









I wanted a commercial to start with so this got the ball rolling. I started stripping it down to see what it needed:














Not too bad. Needs boot floor and sills..... Pretty much the norm!
So that led to todays work....









But before it came right off, mike offered up the cage mounts ;)







More to come :)
 
should be a good thread, lots of pics we like pics, im intregued with the cage mounts, though, why the holes? surely capture mud..also i hope your strengthening the shassis itself where it mounts.

also i woulndt galve a chassis id buy a galve chassis, if you galve and old one then it rusts from inside out.
 
Yes the chassis will be braced sufficiently. Mike has a good record with cage building and I trust him implicitly. The holes are to allow galv inside. The chassis being used isn't the one on the truck, it's a replacement but it gets acid dipped prior to galving and extra holes drilled to ensure galv gets everywhere inside and out
 
So today i scrapped the old shell. Shame really as it was fairly rust free:









Then popped up to see how the chassis was getting on:



 
About time you started a build thread again.... :)

Nice looking Golf in one of the pics..... ;)
 
Which I knew you were takin pics I would have put my best underwear and stockings on
 
You really have got sex on the brain all day long Mikey, is Maz not keeping you happy at the moment? :lol:
 
Not much progress today didn't finish work till 3, just alot of measuring, leveling and working out where to take levels from.....bloody landrover and there tolerances.....











 
Awesome :)
Yeah as mike says now ill get the extended defender arches now that I don't need to cut them...
 
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