Safe chassis drilling ?

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Booner DCA

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• Sep 18, 2012

• #1

How safe is it to drill through the front offside chassis end. I was trying to attach a jate ring but having a steering guard fitted is limiting my options a bit. (Guard is like the pole/bar type, rather than the steel sheet one).

Was thinking if I can drill a new, separate hole just forward of the existing chassis mounting hole for a new jate ring to go into??
Does this compromise any towing or safety implications?

Can't seem to attach a photo/jpeg etc to show.
But hopefully you get the gist.

The bumper is standard, non military without winch, bull bars etc.

Thanks for any help. . .

 

uncle albert

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• Sep 18, 2012

• #2

would have thought bad idea as it might well pull through , unless you plate it first . have you searched surley somones coverd it?

 

The Mad Hat Man

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• Sep 18, 2012

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tube it. - i.e drill a slightly larger hole, fit a tube through and then weld it in. That way it wont crush the chassis.

 

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deaftonewonder

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• Sep 18, 2012

• #4

its fine.+ im gonna do the same thing to mine.

the wolf has exactly the same set up and WMIK doubles up on jate rings so even more holes are drilled.

The wolf ('sheet' type) steering guard uses the original jate mounting points so i think the new ones are drilled about an inch or so forward of the original mounting points.

Tubings a good idea, this would make it much stronger but its alotta work + since the wolf / WMIK chassis doesnt have it its prob not needed.

 

The Mad Hat Man

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• Sep 18, 2012

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why is it a lot of work? tiz only welding in the tube..

 

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• Sep 19, 2012

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Well, if he hasn't got a welder.. he needs to borrow/hire one, learn to weld and then go and fit this tube. That is a fair bit of work.

 

Adam1979

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• Sep 19, 2012

• #7

Can not see how you would get much strength without having a tube welded in. If you can not weld I would get someone to do it for you. Better to have piece of mind than ripping your chassis to bits when you next need recovering.