The wing nut was a blank for where there had been a roof aerial. Took the roof off and welded all the holes up with alloy wire in mig welder.
Puddle welded that one against a piece of stainless steel plate which the alloy will not stick too.
 

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only modified or military chassis have the removable crossmember. if you have a removable one then its really obvious as the bolts are directly under the rails. i have never had to do any more than use a lever to get mine out too so why you would need to spread the rails is beyond me.
Hi, how do you remove the top nuts and bolts? I can’t access the bolt head and that leads me to think it’s an original and was bolted in when they joined the chassis. I can undo all the lower two bolts easy enough but once I have the two upper nuts off and bang the bolt back it seems like it will just disappear into the chassis box section? Appreciate any obvious details I’m missing.
 
Hi, how do you remove the top nuts and bolts? I can’t access the bolt head and that leads me to think it’s an original and was bolted in when they joined the chassis. I can undo all the lower two bolts easy enough but once I have the two upper nuts off and bang the bolt back it seems like it will just disappear into the chassis box section? Appreciate any obvious details I’m missing.
Again on the defender the bolt go all the way though the chassis rail and out the other side. On mine one of the bolts is shorted to clear the seat box but only but about 5mm. not sure if it the same on a series as mine is welded.
 
Again on the defender the bolt go all the way though the chassis rail and out the other side. On mine one of the bolts is shorted to clear the seat box but only but about 5mm. not sure if it the same on a series as mine is welded.
Yeah I just went for it and figured that out in the end. Very easy job to remove the bolts - anyone doing this needs release spray. Then I managed to bash the crossmember out with the back of an axe which worked great.
 

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