110 CSW chassis questions

-Defender110- · Mar 20, 2012

Hi lads, im just looking to confirm i have the correct name for the following pieces:

1: The crossmember the sits under the second row seats and attaches to the rear outriggers, is this it?? LR542 | Main body cross member
if not, would it be called the 'center crossmember' and where might i get one??

2: the brackets that connect this crossmember to the outriggers, anyone know what they are called or where to get them?

thanks in advance lads

The Mad Hat Man · Mar 20, 2012

Try YRM

-Defender110- · Mar 20, 2012

Lovely stuff MHM, looks like this is the stuff:

076 n s Land Rover Defender 110 Station Wagon Sill Rail to Mid Crossmember Bracket

053 Land Rover Defender 110 Mid Crossmember

thanks for that!

LeadFarmer · Mar 20, 2012

Richards chassis in Rotherham sell galvanised body cross members.

-Defender110- · Mar 21, 2012

incidentally, anyone done a replacement if the center crossmember? any advice?

-Defender110- · Mar 23, 2012

So heres some pictures of the bad points on the chassis, looking for yere oppinion on what needs to be replaced/repaired

I personally think i need a new center x/member and to patch the front offside outrigger at the front.

I ran out of camera battery on the nearside rear outrigger but ill get a picture up asap

anyway, thoughts??

-Defender110- · Mar 23, 2012

and some more

Landy-ads · Mar 24, 2012

-Defender110- said:
incidentally, anyone done a replacement if the center crossmember? any advice?

When I did mine I replaced the rear tub at the same time so it was easy but I reckon you could get away with just lifting threat tub a bit. Start by removing the second row floor panel, you should the see that the x membe r is bolted to each of the chassis rails with 2 bolts. It's also bolted to the sill rail at each end remove all these, lift the tub a few inches and in theory it should come out. It won't tho, cos it'll b rusted to sh!t - so get the angle grinder ready!

pressbrake · Mar 24, 2012

I think your 110 looks bad enough with thick corrosion to need a strip down and shotblast to find out the extent of the rot at best otherwise I think you may need a chassis.
Ive been doing landys for a long time and its always worse than it looks

-Defender110- · Apr 19, 2012

pressbrake said:
I think your 110 looks bad enough with thick corrosion to need a strip down and shotblast to find out the extent of the rot at best otherwise I think you may need a chassis.
Ive been doing landys for a long time and its always worse than it looks

Have a little faith

This weekend is going to be a busy one cleaning down the chassis to bare metal as best i can, and re-painting it in hammerite.
Just ordered the Rear X-Member from Pressbrake, cant wait for it to arrive so i can get cracking on the rotten back end of the 110!!

Will upload pics of the progress!

bluehaze · Apr 22, 2012

The first time I did my chassis it came back from the blasters needing NINE plates welding on!!!!! Once done it was sorted, well at least until some prat drove into the rear! If in doubt strip it all down, blast it and hammerite it.

-Defender110- · Apr 22, 2012

bluehaze said:
The first time I did my chassis it came back from the blasters needing NINE plates welding on!!!!! Once done it was sorted, well at least until some prat drove into the rear! If in doubt strip it all down, blast it and hammerite it.

Tell me about it, the list is already growing, started the cleaning process of the chassis properly this weekend, started on the worst side first to get it out of the way, covered in grinder spark burns and cuts, and looks like ill be buying a sheet of 3mm sheet next weekend. im going to replace the cross member that the rear A-Frame attaches too, its not that bad but for piece of mind i want to do it right and not have to worry about loosing the back axle while giving it welly off road

so far the list is as follows:

Rear X-Member + extensions: Arriving next week

A-Frame X-Member: Fabricate/Buy in the near future

Center X-Member: Will get a length of box section to suit

F/O/S Outrigger: to be ordered next week.

Im sure the list will grow the more dirt i remove, but for now, can anybody tell me if i remove the second row seats and the floor will i be able to remove the a frame crossmember easier or am i making more work for myself?

pressbrake · Apr 22, 2012

-Defender110- said:
Have a little faith This weekend is going to be a busy one cleaning down the chassis to bare metal as best i can, and re-painting it in hammerite.
Just ordered the Rear X-Member from Pressbrake, cant wait for it to arrive so i can get cracking on the rotten back end of the 110!!

Will upload pics of the progress!

Ive just got back from the workshop doing your x member 10;30 on a sunday!
all so I dispatch tomorrow!

-Defender110- · Apr 22, 2012

pressbrake said:
Ive just got back from the workshop doing your x member 10;30 on a sunday!
all so I dispatch tomorrow!

Fair play to you Clive! really appreciate the top class service on this! not many people would go out of their way like you do to accommodate as you do!!

currymunster · Apr 23, 2012

We should start a pressbrake fan club. I too am a happy punter of a highly engineered rear crossmember (wonder how much I could charge for membership

I could give up my day job YIPPEE

-Defender110- · Apr 25, 2012

currymunster said:
We should start a pressbrake fan club. I too am a happy punter of a highly engineered rear crossmember (wonder how much I could charge for membership I could give up my day job YIPPEE

Haha, we could indeed

Crossmember arrived today at home, havent seen it yet but according to the father it weighs a tonne

cant wait to get down home to have a look at it! Fair play to PressBrake, top quality delivery time considering you had to fab it and all!!

-Defender110- · Apr 29, 2012

Myself and hogan, were up at the crack of dawn yesterday to get the new crosmember onto the 110, seriously dirty job

heres a look at the progress

Richard setting himself on fire

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Richard after the fire was out

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The crossmember in place while we lined up the new extensions:

And a look at the x-member before putting it in

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I have to say that crossmember is some serious piece of kit, fair play to pressbrake!

what ye think??

bluehaze · Apr 29, 2012

Good stuff

Jason2 · Apr 29, 2012

I changed the A frame crossmember on me 110, could'nt find one so I chopped one off a RR chassis (they are the same)that I had lying about.

Was a reight bastid to get old one out and new one in.

Got some pics if yeh want !

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