Strange shaped hole in chassis??

Anyone else got this shaped hole in chassis cos it certainly hasn't rotted that shape, it's by the o/s/f spring and I don't know if to fill it or not. All ideas or comments welcomed.

Your only worried about that hole....That looks like something dragged up from the bottom of the sea

it has just had the outer layer rot away

makes mine look NEW !

It's the shape of the hole I can't work out,it looks more shaped the rotted. I can see that the spring seat needs replacing but I can't work out of the hole needs repairing or if it should be there in some form or another

Marmaduke said:

It's the shape of the hole I can't work out,it looks more shaped the rotted. I can see that the spring seat needs replacing but I can't work out of the hole needs repairing or if it should be there in some form or another

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your looking at inner of chassis out layer has rotted away it should be plated over

Marmaduke said:

It's the shape of the hole I can't work out,it looks more shaped the rotted. I can see that the spring seat needs replacing but I can't work out of the hole needs repairing or if it should be there in some form or another

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A clean up might well reveal some other stuff that needs doing, it looks pretty hanging under there!
Get the wire out before welding, seen a few melted before

The only rot is the jagged bits on the right hand side of the hole the rest of it is smooth and feels like it was cut into the chassis so I don't know whether to cut it and fill it at opposed to just welding a plate over the top of it, I'll be cutting the spring seat off it tomorrow and replacing that

Marmaduke said:

The only rot is the jagged bits on the right hand side of the hole the rest of it is smooth and feels like it was cut into the chassis so I don't know whether to cut it and fill it at opposed to just welding a plate over the top of it, I'll be cutting the spring seat off it tomorrow and replacing that

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chassis is made of more than one layer ,your outer one has gone there :boink:

So what's the best way of covering/filling the hole then?

either plate over it or better grind a large area of outer plate away and replace with fresh, though it all looks past best to say the least

I'll see what it looks like when I've chopped the spring seat off tomorrow and gave the area a good wire brushing. Watch this space..............

Marmaduke said:

Anyone else got this shaped hole in chassis cos it certainly hasn't rotted that shape, it's by the o/s/f spring and I don't know if to fill it or not. All ideas or comments welcomed.

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Loks clean inside though

Patch some roses tin over it.

Right, a bit more progress made today, until my angle grinder gave up the ghost



the inside looks ok and feeling around inside there'e no rust in there,



On the plus side though I have recently purchased one of these little airsaws



It makes short work of removing a knackered footwell with the pedals still in place



So off tomorrow to buy some steel, a new spring seat and a new angle grinder

Good on you mate. Get all that **** cut away, and some good plate welded in there. Hows your welding skills?

meego said:

Hows your welding skills?

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You'll find out tomorrow, I'll stick some pics up...

bit late but this shows the internal make up that explains what your seeing....



cheers steve

That's a pretty good gadget you've got there, not made as much progress as I wanted today but this is as far as I got.



Welder and sprayer coming out of the shed tomorrow, I'll report in when done...

That cleaned up better than I thought it would actually