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bigjak

Active Member

• Nov 1, 2015

• #1

I have removed the gearbox xmember from my Disco 1 to fit in my 110 but the body mounts are in the way and there are no upper forward mounting holes in the chassis.
I have looked at the Defender xmember and it seems to have a different end plate. I can cut my xmember to match but the Disco had an exhaust mount on the upper front passenger side bolt, does a 300Tdi Defender have/need this mounting?

 

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bigjak

Active Member

• Nov 5, 2015

• #2

Can someone get me a photo of their 110 300Tdi gearbox crossmember in place?

 

tacr2man

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• Nov 7, 2015

• #3

when i put 300tdi auto in 90 used the oe discovery crossmember , and just removed the small area of sideplate where the sideplates clashed with the webs on the chassis

 

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bigjak

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• Nov 7, 2015

• #4

tacr2man said:

when i put 300tdi auto in 90 used the oe discovery crossmember , and just removed the small area of sideplate where the sideplates clashed with the webs on the chassis

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Did you have the upper front hole or did you drill the chassis?

 

tacr2man

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• Nov 7, 2015

• #5

IIRC the holes are all there its just a matter of modding the x-member sideplates might include welding a bit of plate on as well , cant check on vehicle as not where I am at the moment .

 

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bigjak

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• Nov 7, 2015

• #6

tacr2man said:

IIRC the holes are all there its just a matter of modding the x-member sideplates might include welding a bit of plate on as well , cant check on vehicle as not where I am at the moment .

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Thanks, I have to weld a bracket in for the front lower bolt but my chassis doesn't have the front upper holes.

 

tacr2man

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• Nov 7, 2015

• #7

Are you sure you are putting the xmember in the correct place , as I thought the chassis were all much the same
my 110 which was a V8 had the holes for the cross member for r380 type and that had small separate mountings for the lt85 ?

 

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bigjak

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• Nov 7, 2015

• #8

tacr2man said:

Are you sure you are putting the xmember in the correct place , as I thought the chassis were all much the same
my 110 which was a V8 had the holes for the cross member for r380 type and that had small separate mountings for the lt85 ?

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I haven't got the crossmember in yet because I need to cut it to clear the webs but I can see the three common holes will match. The chassis is 1988/9, so no forward upper holes because it had an LT77 fitted.

 

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bigjak

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• Dec 10, 2015

• #9

tacr2man
You were right I didn't have it in the right place because I thought I had to keep the bolted crossmember that was there in.
I have removed this and put the crossmember right place, I can only pick up two of the three top bolts and the lower bottom one. Is this what you found? Looks like my 110 chassis is deeper than the Disco.