The rear body mounts had been plated before, one less job to do I guess! A bit of a break from the rear crossmember to attack the rot, I figured lots of little bits would be easier than trying to fu*k about and get the right curve: And the other side:

Thought we'd try out the arc from the arc... Yeah it just melted stuff! lol Had a bit of a hole in the rear end so that had to be patched.. Before... And after:

So next to put a bit of strength back in that chassis! The new rear crossmember will be a lovely bit of 4"x4" box with a nice 4mm wall (sorry about the british measurements!) We've cut the chassis back on the corners of the legs so that the top and bottem could be tied into the new rear end. The...

Thats gonna improve the departure angle a bit ;) Just gotta 'trim' the chassis back next: Something like that! Told you the scrap pile wasn't finished ;)

The factory rear body support will go back on with new fabricated mounts on the new rear cross member. The scrap pile aint finished yet!: It'll look something like this... excuse the line of the inner panel, I had to cut out a bit more rot, it will be levelled up and plated later :):

The first cut is daunting... I've measured out everything so the outer skin will overlap, the inner I'll cut shorter so it can be welded up nicely: Once the outer skins were carefully removed the abuse with the big old 9" could begin! The result... half a disco!: She's gonna be a little...

After months of reading threads on here and toying with ideas I came to the conclusion that I was going to begin heavily modifying my disco! A few of the guys in my club have done bobtails but a few are not to my liking, ie look good but not very strong or very strong but look horrid.. I spent...

I'll be there with some of the Bristol 4x4 club boys - we're the ones with bristol4x4club stickers :D

my 200tdi with 4" lift on 35" simex's with snorkle, winch and loads of other heavy shizzle and 'adjusted' fuel pump does about 60 miles per £20 depending on where i fill (ie price) and where i drive... basically it varies, i don't care, like noisy said... get over it! :) they are big heavy...

we worked out a nice route east of barnstaple linking several lanes, then headed south towards dartmoor. was a good day out! :)

cool cheers

Nah the single key broke, to get me home I put the broken bit into the ignition so the broken key would start the car, however now I can't manually unlock or lock the doors as I've only got the fob to use! This became apparent when the battery went flat last month... Bye bye central locking! Lol

Yep.. seat of the pants me :)

Ok so I've only got one remote locking fob and one key which i just broke off in the filler cap.. not bothered about the key but got me worried about the key fob. Is it possible to get replacement fobs??? :p

:bounce: As per the title, if you fancy tagging along drop me a message and I'll give you some details!

Thats some interesting reading about the prototypes. Someone got a steal winning that truck cab for £21, the parts listing was around £1500 new!! Must exaust all google searches to find a swiss truck cab... ;)

I was browsing an online parts catalogue this morning when I stumbled across a genuine parts listing for a Discovery Hard Top! It was listed for the Danish market, the part number of the hard top is STC7156, here's a picture: Has anyone encountered one of these rare beasts? I've seen...

Water usually works well :)

I've got a pair in the garage someone can have for free!! lol

Lets see your rear bumper GreenHornet?? :) Need to build one for mine... need ideas... although im looking at modifying my fuel tank guard and rear chassis member to accept a rear winch into the equation