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    chasis, replace it all or just bits?

    yeah hard top for me matey
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    my new defender 90!

    haha I like the electric landy concept! wonders if I could get away with having it done as it be in a commual carpark. There fault for getting to close right, cos they got touch the beast to get the shock!
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    chasis, replace it all or just bits?

    is taken of the body a simple job and would it break anything by taking it off. I guess I mean is it simple to take off and pop back on and wont break anything that needs replacing in the mean time? im new to this landrover lark. :-O but loving it
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    chasis, replace it all or just bits?

    and there be my problem lol. who to trust. the guy who did it cheap last year, well its still looks sounds. I was wondering about buying a welder, going on a course and learning another trade. easy as that? thinking a good welder be about £350? but seen em for 100 and for 2000. hmmm
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    Restoring Defender 90

    if ya dont wont to do any work on the chasis for atleast 6 months, would it be a bad idea to get the hammer out as you may cause damage, or would it not matter as if its gona break, it aint doing any support anyhows
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    Restoring Defender 90

    bayden how much they set ya back? where abouts are ya, Norfolk? I would love to see salvage yard with landys in it around here :-0
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    Restoring Defender 90

    pos, what hammer is best, normal steel one or a mallet to test for chasis integrity
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    chasis, replace it all or just bits?

    oh also for wedling is it worth getting a "proper" garage to do the welding ie peter scotts, than a friend of a friend from his workshop? cos long time better etc...
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    chasis, replace it all or just bits?

    90truckcab, ya got one oni order :-) how much it cost ya? But, are you going to install it? or get someone els to? its a big job right! I was just speaking to someone and he said £1500 for a galv chasis, and once taken it all apart worth changing everything els, props, shocks, spings, brakes etc...
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    chasis, replace it all or just bits?

    hey guys, As already said that my rear cross memberwas welded last year, but on the other cross member the old welding from when ever it was done is starting come apart. check the pic then at the front of the landy, just behind the main strut, before the steering box, there is a small...
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    battery, what is this wire?

    has heard of galvanised chasis costing £1200. but how much would it bloody cost to fit it? massive job right? I got me a defender 90, 200tdi 1991. would ya say it be worth replacing the whole chasis, or getting another if it got to the point it needed a whole new chasis? just saw this on ebay...
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    my new defender 90!

    what does the indra red electronic switch do? and how does the shock occur exactly? only when you try to turn it on?
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    battery, what is this wire?

    Oh I noticed some 6-7mm drill holes in the top of my old bumper, I think that some lights may have been in situ. could be to do with that. found out today that battery have different starting up power, as my mate was told he had wrong one. I have a 550 amp, is this normal for the landy and when...
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    battery, what is this wire?

    cool will do then. was proding about with screwdriver today under the landy and I made a hole in one of the joints near the bumper connection area (pretty small mind you). if this end needs replacing at some put is it similar to the rear cross member? which is one unit. the rest of the chasis...
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    snorkel installation

    hey redhand what is the drain valve? where it is located? is that the flywheel plug? heard about that in the haynes manual for when you go offroading. but not sure where that is :-( can you show me via pictures?
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    defender - rust - corrosion

    yeah will do with screwdriver. I guess if I poke it about with screwdriver and make more holes, it would still be fine til the summer. I dont really want to spend big bucks at moment til then. sure it be fine yeah, til then if just the one bit as shown that is dodgey!
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    snorkel installation

    hey guys here is me installed snorkel and with plenty of silicon, nearly use 300ml! and the mantec wheel carrier on the back which I have just installed also, after restoring it from the scrap yard! even sealed the outside bit to help it along in the water and this be the mantec installed...
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    battery, what is this wire?

    also noticed this connection on the back, looks as if it splits off to the main one connected to the rear by tow bar and then this one just sitting on the other side on rear cross member. any ideas what its all about and why I would have two of these connections on the rear.
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    battery, what is this wire?

    Hey up, I found a lose wire in the battery area housing. I dont recall seeing it before, is something up? here are some snaps. so here we can see a wire clearly to the terminal but no wire to this terminal but this is the wire I noticed just laying on the flooor of the battery housing...
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    defender - rust - corrosion

    update: here is the turret on my offside wheel. The other one only has a small hole towards the top of the turret, the outside bit. Here is the turret from the outside, taken over the wheel. then as I look around the otherside of the same turret as above. we see heavy corrosion and lost of...