Sump Guard

SES88 said:

I'm still toying with the idea of making the sump guards. I have a set of Mantec guards that are for sale though since my car is for sale

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My bad, thought you made them but be thinking of something else in your accessory portfolio!

Kizzeh said:

My bad, thought you made them but be thinking of something else in your accessory portfolio!

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You'll be thinking of the exhaust guards

SES88 said:

I'm still toying with the idea of making the sump guards. I have a set of Mantec guards that are for sale though since my car is for sale

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Oooh, tell me more!

Sorry, should introduce myself. Name is Al, live in Dorset, been into green-laning on and off since the early 90s. Have owned all sorts, mostly green oval, from 88" Series 3 to Disco3 and Puma 90. You'll find me on Disco3.co.uk and Defender2.com as NoDo$h.

Bought an XKR recently and reluctantly handed the keys of the Disco to Mrs Dosh (she sold her Defender, so fair play) and have just bought a 54 plate Freelander 3 door td4 for playtime. Plan is to make it into a bit of a rally raid dakar style replica. Will have to wait and see if that actually happens!

Anyway, enough of the thread hijack. If you are selling any under-body protection, I'd be interested

Oh, and I may be after one of your low profile back-boxes too - will see when I pick up the new toy on Saturday

SES88 said:

I'm still toying with the idea of making the sump guards. I have a set of Mantec guards that are for sale though since my car is for sale

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I would LOVE to have them, but I'm thinking shipping to California would be a KILLER.
Nevertheless,....throw me the number via PM.

I think Simon has a number of pm's now

Ok so thats 4 people after them lol

I can ship to Cali, if you're willing to pay the cost of it!! A sump guard, exhaust guard and receiver hitch combined isn't exactly lightweight though, would need to be 2 parcels!! Shipping for the sump guard alone would be about £80-90 (not sure what it weighs, so just a ballpark figure for you).

Might turn into David Dickinson now and start an auction

I'm interested in sump guards only, and they are impossible to find over here. FL1 is all but GONE from the US roads, and nobody has ANY accessories for sale. There are many junkyards in CA, with dozens of FL1s in stock, and I called few asking about these.
Maybe I'll just contract a guy to make me some out of aluminum diamond plate. I'll be cheaper.

Danielsand said:

I'm interested in sump guards only, and they are impossible to find over here. FL1 is all but GONE from the US roads, and nobody has ANY accessories for sale. There are many junkyards in CA, with dozens of FL1s in stock, and I called few asking about these.
Maybe I'll just contract a guy to make me some out of aluminum diamond plate. I'll be cheaper.

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Cheaper yes, but chequer plate grips the ground when off road need to use the smooth side and 8mm plate, anything less and you're wasting your time when you hit a nice hard rock!!

SES88 said:

Cheaper yes, but chequer plate grips the ground when off road need to use the smooth side and 8mm plate, anything less and you're wasting your time when you hit a nice hard rock!!

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Thank you. I will go with thinner aluminum, because wife's Hippo will never go off road. Some gravel (on the ranch), and CA roads that are full of "gators" (that's what local truckers call the recap rubber falling of the truck tire!), rocks, and other garbage. I need some light protection from her running over that stuff, and messing up the props/VCU. Ideally,.....I'd like to enclose the whole underside of the car, all the way back.

She is a GOOD driver, but due to the local driving conditions, it's sometimes impossible to swerve, change the lane, and avoid the obstacle. When you are doing 80+mph, have cars on your right, concrete wall on your left (if you are in the left lane), and hundreds of cars on your rear bumper, you might be faced with a split second decision: going over (whatever is laying in your lane), or slamming on the brakes, and get rearended. In this area, most freeways don't have the left shoulder. If the cop is pulling you over (and you are in the left most lane), you have to work your way through all the lanes to your right (sometimes six of them!), to get to the right shoulder. Even in the rare places that have the left shoulder, it's ILLEGAL for you to pull over on that shoulder if the cop is on your tail!

If the cardboard boxes are on the freeway, it's easy (although they can get wedged by the prop too!), but seeing a matteress, rocking chair, a COUCH (!!), or other furniture, is also pretty common.

Since MOST CA drivers do other things behind the wheel (besides driving), slamming on the brakes is dangerous (the other day I observed a guy shaving behind the wheel at 80+mph!).

And I am cautious for a reason. Two years ago, she was in her Wrangler, had to slam on the brakes (there was a steel safe that fell off the truck in her lane!!), and she was rearended by a pickup truck. Her neck has never been the same since.

Sounds like its a bit like wacky races over there!! Sounds like you could've done with a lift kit for some extra height