Hello,
I've formed the mental resolve to have a proper go at my chassis this summer - my plan is to borrow a spot in a nearby farmers barn, lift the body off the chassis in one big piece and then survey what needs fixing/welding.
Although mine is a 110 TD5, I'm hoping I can follow
these instructions - can anybody who knows what they're doing have a quick look and see if they look right, please?
I'm going to start stock-piling bits (bolts, fixings etc) now - what bits are worth getting in preparation? I'm going to presume that every single bolt, screw and fixing will need angle-grinding off!
Can anybody tell me what the best thing to do is when attacking the chassis with an angle-grinder? I've had a go at the chassis under the foot-well floor-plates in the past and have found that the chassis tends to "delaminate" in flakey layers where the rust is worst - is it best just to wire-brush back the new surface and paint it or cut the new, thinner part of the chassis out and weld in a plate?
Any advice etc would be very much appreciated - I know the best thing would be to get a new chassis and swap evrything across onto that, but I can't afford that, I don't think my chassis is actually that bad and mine has an HD chassis and, although I'm not sure what the actual difference is between that and a "standard" chassis, I don't want to change to a "standard" one...
Anyway, enough of me going on...
Thanks