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Vehicle & Technical => Defender => Topic started by: L90OOK on September 16, 2007, 18:30:20

Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: L90OOK on September 16, 2007, 18:30:20: Well time has come to rebuild my trusty steed.
I going to put a new galvanized chassis & want to put a new galvanized bulkhead on it too.
Question is...where can I get a galvanized bulkhead for a 200Tdi from?
Cheers
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: extreme90 on September 16, 2007, 21:49:28: get a good 2nd hand one then get that galvo'd, new uns are around 400quid IIRC
dan
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: MuddyMachine on September 16, 2007, 22:12:22: There is a company on eBay that puts one from time to time
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: iomlr on September 17, 2007, 12:35:56: Paddocks are doing cheapish new bulkheads just over the Â£200 mark i believe which is a bargin!
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: Porny on September 17, 2007, 13:48:34: Quote from: "iomlr"
Paddocks are doing cheapish new bulkheads just over the Â£200 mark i believe which is a bargin!

If it's the picture in the mag... then they are Td5 ones (I think, only had a quick look at the ad), which will require some mods to fit a 200Tdi...

And they are virtually the same price from a main dealer AFAIK.. :wink:

Ian
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: per_ardua on September 17, 2007, 18:36:04: iam in exactly the same boat.

i have found a galvanizer nearme that offers Â£50 per ton for galvanizing www.wedge-galv.org

IIRC

mine is a 200tdi 110 with a galv chassic already but the rest really does need a good tidy up

i'm trying to do a rolling resto a bit at a time but I know it will not lats like that.

I was going to galv all the bracketry body cappings and have ascrewfix depot about 2 miles away with lots of shiny nuts and bolts and rivets.

I saw a few unpainted galv bulkheadfs at land rover festm last weekend and they do look rather good.
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: Litch on September 18, 2007, 18:06:29: There are plenty of places currently doing new TD5 bulkheads for around Â£200 and the necessary changes to make one fit a 200TDi are minimal.
I would buy one, do a dry run and then send it off for galvansing. It may mean you have a delay of a couple of weeks but at least you know you won't be drilling any more holes through the new galvanised finish.

Having said that, a new bulkhead that has been properly rust-proofed should last 25-years or more so the question is, do you NEED a galvanised one or is it just a whim? Don't get me wrong, I am in favour of it but is it really necessary?
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: bombx3 on September 18, 2007, 18:24:49: Hi Jamie no haft measures on this one then ,if you need a hand i and h would help
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: L90OOK on September 18, 2007, 18:36:58: Hi Ray

No the old girl really is looking sorry so & new chassis, bulkhead, loom, doors etc etc should see her fit for another 20years :lol:
Will be doing it in my unit at Totnes so should be able to get it done fairly quickly...& in the dry!

Fed up with the salt water & air corroding everything so am going to get as much as I can galvanized...I'm a bit worried a galvanized bulkhead might look poo though :roll:

Plus side is Rangie will be back on the road so I can go play again :D

I got to get the winch bumper off & sent to chassis people so they can profile the chassis dumb irons first before galvanizing...first of many jobs I feel :roll:
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: bombx3 on September 18, 2007, 18:44:36: i no what you mean about the salt i lad does the beach race and if i dont wash it straight away next day its to late its already eating in ,i learnt the hard way.i just got a job down the plains for 4 months are you near there if so i ll pop in or you pop up to our site
Title: 110 Rebuild
Post by: L90OOK on September 18, 2007, 20:15:02: Ray

My unit is not far from Jewsons on babbage road industrial estate.
Give me a cal as i'm not there all the time.
Cheers