Rustyrus

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Made these today, a few pictures of how they were made


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Removed sills and used them as a template, drew round them on 40 x 80 box section to get the length and the radius at the ends
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Decided that I wanted the ends of the sliders to taper back in towards the wheel arch rather than just have square ends for a neater finish so I cut a vee out of the back of the box section, about 100mm from the ends then bent them in and tacked

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cut...

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bend..

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tack...


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closed off the ends

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welded up
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make a bracket and drill for the front mounting at the bulkhead

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best to fix the bracket to the bulkhead then when you fit up the box section you are sure its all o.k

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position the box section and mark where the tubular outrigger at the rear will pass through for your jacking point if you want one, then cut out

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fit your pipe through the rear outrigger, I made them about 500mm long then fit up the box
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once your happy with the fit, tack on the front bracket and the pipe at the rear while still on the landy then remove for welding

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the fixing at the inside end of the pipe can be a bolt welded into the end of the pipe or a washer for fitting a bolt later

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you need a stopper welded to the tube

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here's a few pics of them fitted

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gives a neat finish round the arches, no cutting or butchering required

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took them off again, will send them off for galvy I think.

Took all day to make them both, used 40 x 80 box, two lengths at 1500mm

two 500mm lengths of tube, 42mm o/d (think it's 1 3/8" bore)

a few other bits of scrap for brackets and stuff,

thats it!!!!
 
Kinellers it took you a day to make em.....................Gulp..... I've bin nearly a year making some very similar an still ant got em finished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
no point in rushing grunt, bet steel was a lot cheaper a year ago, £6.50 a metre for 80 x 40 box up here, what a rip off!!
 
its not all that difficult but the main thing is having all the right gear,decent mig welder, 5" grinder and some kind of workshop
 
Nice one! I've started fabricating an all in one rear door panel (no seperate pieces other than the door catch cover) out of mild steel although as i've not got much time at the moment its a kind of on going effort. However I think it would be cool to have a thread displaying different owners custom landy fabs perhaps?

Ollie :)
 

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