Wildefalcon
Well-Known Member
You can get a a spacer plate.
Wildefalcon
Well-Known Member
Google Dixon bate series hitch.
Wildefalcon
Well-Known Member
Some more recent crossmembers have the tab fitted the defender way, avoiding the need for a spacer.
Tony Monsantoe
Member
try this for a idea of what you wanted for a towing connection.
also try this.
Series 1 Land Rover Towing Equipment | John Craddock Ltd
Towing Equipment in Series > Series 1 > Parts > Towing Equipment from John Craddock Ltd
www.johncraddockltd.co.uk
everything youd wanna use is there.
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Highlander in Yorkshire
Active Member
Hey Lee, I am looking at the same problem. Did you find a spacer plate?
Wildefalcon
Well-Known Member
Try GDI Products on eBay, they've a lot of galv stuff, series spacers and drop plates.
Dorset_dumpling
Well-Known Member
This is how mine is fitted. I have a couple of large, thick washers behind the bottom bolts.
Scalleys Dad
Active Member
My curiosity was nudged on this topic. I was thinking about getting a small trailer for stuff like tip runs, logs and a sort of community wheel barrow. After a bit of poking about, tracing the wiring and checking over potential switch location and wotnot I came up with phase one of the project…………. I need a new rear cross member!!!!!! Bugger.
Highlander in Yorkshire
Active Member
Oh no…. What a downer. ‘Community wheel barrow’….. love it.
Scalleys Dad
Active Member
It was already getting pretty grim before that discovery. The fuel tank front outrigger is hanging in there so that’s booked in, ( end of September for chrissakes), which includes two wheel bearings and the rear hub seals.
Were she being tested the fail/advisory list is quite worrying but the words “in due course” for the pedal box and footwell repairs and the shock absorbers has helped me write my Christmas list really really early.
Next year the steering rods and idler/joints area were on the list but a rear propshaft replacement might edge it. Also I feel I could give that go as I did the front a couple of years ago helped by being to park up on a high kerb, loads of scrambling room but there was still blood loss and a nasty bump.
She is not only starting to cost a bit but the timeline for getting her booked in is weeks ahead so we could be facing a year of almost constant repairs and replacements…………….. and yet we purred round the bye pass this afternoon, windows out for air con, a gentle breeze on my knee thanks to the new hole and a couple of Landry waves.
Btw. The workshop I collected her from yesterday had a new landrover in.Awful shape,colour and wheels but I had to smirk at the two and a half grand for a headlight replacement.
Were she being tested the fail/advisory list is quite worrying but the words “in due course” for the pedal box and footwell repairs and the shock absorbers has helped me write my Christmas list really really early.
Next year the steering rods and idler/joints area were on the list but a rear propshaft replacement might edge it. Also I feel I could give that go as I did the front a couple of years ago helped by being to park up on a high kerb, loads of scrambling room but there was still blood loss and a nasty bump.
She is not only starting to cost a bit but the timeline for getting her booked in is weeks ahead so we could be facing a year of almost constant repairs and replacements…………….. and yet we purred round the bye pass this afternoon, windows out for air con, a gentle breeze on my knee thanks to the new hole and a couple of Landry waves.
Btw. The workshop I collected her from yesterday had a new landrover in.Awful shape,colour and wheels but I had to smirk at the two and a half grand for a headlight replacement.
