Plenty of backwards and forwards and trimming and fettling today to get the two halves to mate up nicely, but got there in the end. The alignment was a bit of a faff but I got it to where I'm happy with it (and probably more accurate than land rover bothered with). I had to raise the rear...

Yes, as far as I could go without fouling the stiffening tubes welded inside the new section, about 200mm? I cut the old section with a step to go further in and underneath, and I'm also going to mag broach some large holes in the new section to rosette weld around as you suggested previously...

A story in 4,000 words:

Sounds like a DieselPumpUK style escapade Can we get a running video? :cool:

Narrator: He did not find the time. Turns out I had to work today and tomorrow as well. :rolleyes: Found a spare hour to knock together a quick jig to support the rear crossmember. The holes seem to be the same on both chassis so hopefully this holds the back level.

Went some way to figuring out where this chassis's at. Pulled the front wheels off to get it off the suspension, put a stand under the front underride bar then adjusted the two other stands to get the chassis level across the outriggers in both directions. Certainly nothing seems to actually...

Got the old girl ready to saw in half today. Pulled the back axle out, cut off the rusted to f#ck fuel tank cradle and threw the brake lines in the bin. Didn't throw the ball enough to avoid sad looks, apparently. I had to sacrifice the rear brake line brackets, there's no way those...

““Fun”” o_O the Discovery or the compressor? :p

*furiously taking notes* :D

Howdy. I think I've nailed down how to reliably get around the 'You do not have permission' problem: Thought I'd post my findings here in case it helps anyone else having the same problem. It's possible to drag the image from your file manager over the editing box where you write your posts...

Got started this afternoon after work on prepping the disco for the chassis splittening. First issue was the... considerable... amount of mud in and around everything on the chassis. Dragged it into the wash bay, using the appropriate, totally not overkill equipment, for a hot jet wash...

Psst. Hey. Can you help me hide a body? The only casualties, as far as I can tell, were a few rusted body mount bolts that had to be sacrificed for the greater good, and the plastic nipple for the vacuum hose on the brake booster which I didn't notice pulling until it was too late...

Spent today prepping for the body removal. I got everything in steve24v's list except the body mount bolts, the rear bumper, and the fuel lines. I'm hoping to get it split apart tomorrow. Everything was fairly straightforward until I got to trying to undo one of the unions that goes to the back...

In all honesty I'll probably use the big forklift. Once the bolts are out and everything's disconnected, pick the whole thing up, prop under the body and lower the chassis out from under it. But nice to have the option though. Did you just lift the body on the sills or specifically where the...

I think this should do it :D

Thanks a million for the info Steve! :D

I wish, but I can't spend 3k more on this shed!

There was going to be a picture of a shock absorber with a big broken off lump of chassis attached to it here, but the forum says I don't have permission to upload files here? Hmm. Oh well. Tomorrow she's coming off the road ready to be sawed in half. My welding lasted exactly as long as I...

I had enough of the rear axle clunking around so ordered a set of bushes for the watts linkage. These polybush things are properly dickered, It looks like it's going to be a proper pain in the arse to get them out. If only some handsome fella had built a hydraulic press for this exact...

Had some bulbs out so I thought it was time to replace a few today. Did the centre brake light, no problems. My (TC) light had no friends and was lonely so I took the instrument panel apart to see what was up with the other two ...Farmers, man... Knocked that crap out of there and all is...