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hi folks well ive been running around in my landy for a while no problems yet ,serviced it t belt ect now while the weathers good mi thought lets get the back end sorted mas i knew it wanted work on the back when i bought it , as the sills have been done v good and front end im lovely and i still have all the panels from the black one as i diddn,t fit them .

and much to my missus annoyance ive bought new wheels n tyres and fladog uk arches

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Great looking but best of luck with the Coopers, I will never ever buy another set, I put a set on and we drove to Lake Eyre, by the time we returned after only 12,000 kilometres thet were almost down to the tread marker. I now run Bridgestone Light Truck tyres and I got a tad over 120,000 out of the last set, and 100K of that was on shocking dirt roads in the bush

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Great looking but best of luck with the Coopers, I will never ever buy another set, I put a set on and we drove to Lake Eyre, by the time we returned after only 12,000 kilometres thet were almost down to the tread marker. I now run Bridgestone Light Truck tyres and I got a tad over 120,000 out of the last set, and 100K of that was on shocking dirt roads in the bush

I'm surprised by that comment, we currently have a 90 for sale at work that we took from a regular customer who we sold the car to about 5 years ago, at the time it had a set of cooper discoverer stt's on it that were nearly new. He's done nearly 30,000 miles on these tyres and most of them towing but they've barely worn at all. They also seem to perform really well on the road which is a surprise because they are quite off road biased.

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In response to Dave's reply to my comment regarding Coopers, my guess is, despite the loacal agents denial, they cannot take ambient temperatures of over 50 degrees Centrigade and road temps well into the 70's, simply put they are in my 'umble opinion the rubber compound is designed for moderate and cold weather climates, forget using them in the summer in the Australian outback

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In response to Dave's reply to my comment regarding Coopers, my guess is, despite the loacal agents denial, they cannot take ambient temperatures of over 50 degrees Centrigade and road temps well into the 70's, simply put they are in my 'umble opinion the rubber compound is designed for moderate and cold weather climates, forget using them in the summer in the Australian outback

That's a very good point, i hadn't considered the temperature they'd be running at would effect wear rate but thinking about it it probably makes quite a significant difference. Always interesting to get different points of view, are the bridgestones you're now running a similar tread pattern? If you're getting that many miles out of them, they sound like good value for money.

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well what a day been all day fitting crossmember . Towards the rear of the truck there was not alot there ,Ive rebult the pillars and used a jack and a piece of wood to lift the body slightlym i do think leaving the rear door on as a bare door better ,ive removed one theyre a pain in the arse to refit ,Anyway crossmember all welded up and fitted and made new ends of quater panels where they meet crossmember and the door shuts better than ever im chuffed , what a job though ,on with the rest now

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Well im absolutley worn out a week later and ive stripped chassis welded one small bit on the upper crossmember grey shultz it .

Fitted rear crossmember and all the panels and boot floor what a bloody job never again lol,

And cut my hand in the process lol couldnt find my gloves oh itll be ok just cut a bit of steel no slip cut my knuckle lol m

all lines up fantastic bit of jiggery pockery though lots of clamps ect ,just paint it all now lol

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Well what a nightmare !!! i had bought some paint hammerite red ,and I have never had a problem with it ,but painted it all when the weather was good ,one coat crossmember rear body inside .Two days later it was still WET !!!,So i had to make a choice .

I got some thinners wire wheel took the lot off 2 bloody days and it ruined my seamsealer ,Was not happy so re seam sealed it cleaned it all up and shultzed it all and painted rear crossmember ,NEARLY THERE THO ...

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and guys my tank strap in us on the top of the tank but the heavy duty guard holds it well do i need it ?

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Very tidy, now a few questions as I might have to do something similar...

Do you managed to keep the rear door on at all times? you find any issues with removing so much steel for when you re-jigged the rest of the panels back up? Always a tad weary of removing the rear body mount cross member, but you've obviously faired pretty well! I don't think I've seen such removal of metal without any stiffening. Good job.

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Oh well here we go ive now taken the wheel tubs off aswell they wanted alot of work .

Just hope i can get it all back together lol

at least the weather is going to be good !!!

Was this a Friday afternoon chassis at Land Rover?

The chassis rails are made of two C shaped channels one smaller than the other so it's edges fit inside the larger one then welded up .... well that's how the right hand rail is done, if you look at the left hand one it looks like they were offset (so both C's should have been the same size) and then bent to make it fit before welding.

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Very tidy, now a few questions as I might have to do something similar...

Do you managed to keep the rear door on at all times? you find any issues with removing so much steel for when you re-jigged the rest of the panels back up? Always a tad weary of removing the rear body mount cross member, but you've obviously faired pretty well! I don't think I've seen such removal of metal without any stiffening. Good job.

hi maverick well i removed the lot but also took off the hinge slider bracket at the bottom of the rear door ,

Right i fitted the rear crossmember first and jacked up the rear body with a long piece of 2x4 until the rear door closed perfectly ,

jacked up on middle of door frame (rear door) then i rebuilt the bottoms of the rear panels that meet crossmember and welded it all on the hinge side first.

then you need to pull the quarter on the reciver side out slightly while you tack it in place .

then you need to fit the body mounts to make sure it all is ok .

too be honest i found it better with the rear door on as them doors are a real pain to refit

the rest of the panels are really straight forward , hope that helps

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