This doesn't look good.....

[The Surveyor]

Well with the assistance of Nosha, Richard and Pete, we lifted the body clear of the chassis on my 1976 3000M project. The chassis is justed in the usual places to the outriggers and other localised places, but the worry is that the rear-end has been 'repaired' in the past with mixed results and i'm now in the same quandry as Andrew (deadspider) with regard to repair or replace.....






You'll see that the replacement chassis cross-member isn't level in front of the diff mount and overall there was a lot of surface crust which came away! I'll be having a think on this one as i'm in no rush but there is certainly more chassis work than i had anticipated :-(

Paul

[The Surveyor]

Thanks for the comments guys. Concern as Neil says is that there was so much crust coming of the chassis, will the remainder be solid enough to perform correctly. There may be a replacement available locally which may be a better starting point but do like the idea of starting the re-build with a new chassis.... oh time to sleep on it and work out the finances £££

Cheers

Paul

[The Surveyor]

Just to resurrect an old thread, took delivery of this new beauty today. Perfectly made by Mr Chassisman and now off for powder coating (including blast clean, primers, and gloss top coat of powder).

The old chassis has been cut-up as it was pure scrap so happy for the old chassis number to be transferred to the new one.



Some things in life are worth waiting for

Paul

[The Surveyor]

Chassis back from the powder coaster and is looking lovely with its new gloss grey finish. Now securly stored in the garage above the Tuscan ready for its future build-up.



Paul