Requesting the pooled wisdom pleeeese !
1998 Defender rear x-member; just spotted a bit of rust. Banged it with a
Maglite and produced a hole about size of a Fifty pence piece. The rest of
it seems sound. I recall dinging it in same place a few years ago but did
nothing about it !!!

Question is - whats the best way to repair it ? I assume welding a patch on
is the simplest option and smothering it inside with Wax-Oyl as I intended
doing 9 years ago.

John H

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"Hirsty's" <magnum.458@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Requesting the pooled wisdom pleeeese !
> 1998 Defender rear x-member; just spotted a bit of rust. Banged it with a
> Maglite and produced a hole about size of a Fifty pence piece. The rest
of
> it seems sound. I recall dinging it in same place a few years ago but did
> nothing about it !!!
>
> Question is - whats the best way to repair it ? I assume welding a patch
on
> is the simplest option and smothering it inside with Wax-Oyl as I intended
> doing 9 years ago.
>
> John H
>
Has it damaged the batteries as well? ;-)

Martin

Hirsty's wrote:
> Requesting the pooled wisdom pleeeese !
> 1998 Defender rear x-member; just spotted a bit of rust. Banged it with a
> Maglite and produced a hole about size of a Fifty pence piece. The rest of
> it seems sound. I recall dinging it in same place a few years ago but did
> nothing about it !!!
>
> Question is - whats the best way to repair it ? I assume welding a patch on
> is the simplest option and smothering it inside with Wax-Oyl as I intended
> doing 9 years ago.

Spend the time to cut the damaged area out neatly, make up a patch to
fit into the hole with about 1mm clearance, MIG it in and dress it up
with the grinder - the result should be unnoticeable.


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EMB