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Chassis Repair Welding.

  • 22-06-2010 2:26pm
    #1
    studiorat
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    Hi,
    I'm looking for someone who might be able to do some chassis repair to a project. Basically repairing the part of the chassis where the leaf springs are attached to the chassis. Also possiby a few plates in the floor pan.

    Anybody got any contacts, hopefully in the Dublin area.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    What age is the car?

    Nearly all of the more modern car chassis are built usng high tensile Chrome Moly 41xx steel which would require more specialised tig welding rather than mig.


  • #3
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    it's 1980. 30 years old, just doing up the sums at the minute...


  • #4
    BeardyGit
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    What car is it?


  • #5
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    mk2 transit.


  • #6
    Run_to_da_hills
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    studiorat wrote: »
    mk2 transit.

    My brother has a MK2 camper in the drive ATM, needs front cross member welded.


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  • #7
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    My brother has a MK2 camper in the drive ATM, needs front cross member welded.

    does it look a bit like this?

    http://mk1mk2transit.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=58&sid=5394a6d4872672a4f7db8ff3ef80c2e2


  • #8
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    studiorat wrote: »
    does it look a bit like this?

    http://mk1mk2transit.19.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=58&sid=5394a6d4872672a4f7db8ff3ef80c2e2
    Very similar, 1982 ex British post office and Petrol :eek:.

    He was asking me about a diesel convert, I believe anything up to a MK5 will fit.


  • #9
    Lyre61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭Lyre61


    studiorat wrote: »
    Hi,
    I'm looking for someone who might be able to do some chassis repair to a project. Basically repairing the part of the chassis where the leaf springs are attached to the chassis. Also possiby a few plates in the floor pan.

    Anybody got any contacts, hopefully in the Dublin area.

    Thanks.

    Try Jimbojones40 on here. From what I saw he would be able to sort you out, also has a trailer so he could pick the car up and drop it back.


  • #10
    ikb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭ikb


    Lyre61 wrote: »
    Try Jimbojones40 on here. From what I saw he would be able to sort you out, also has a trailer so he could pick the car up and drop it back.

    +1... See the thread ... http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055916176. (page 2 has pics of jimbos work)..... Very tastey!


  • #11
    studiorat
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭studiorat


    Thanks for the info chaps.

    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Very similar, 1982 ex British post office and Petrol :eek:.

    He was asking me about a diesel convert, I believe anything up to a MK5 will fit.

    I did a double take when I saw that, they're butt ugly but kinda cool as well. I was told anything up to 2000 will fit in I guess that's a mk5.


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  • #12
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    studiorat wrote: »
    Thanks for the info chaps.
    I did a double take when I saw that, they're butt ugly but kinda cool as well. I was told anything up to 2000 will fit in I guess that's a mk5.
    I agree there, but inside they are very spacious, I stayed in it for a few nights in Tralee, its like a railway carriage inside compaired to my VW, you just have to forget what the outside looks like.

    My brother made his even uglier by hand painting black it in household paint. RTE then rented it off him for a prop in Fair City for a few weeks, he probably got several times its value from the deal. After that It was parked at a friends place and the council litter warden told him it had to go because it was an eyesore.


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