F.J.
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Got a phone call off a local mechanic who had just failed the MOT test on a Mitsubishi Shogun due to the chassis looking like a colander. The owner has a boat and through years of backing into the sea, rivers and lakes etc.... it had taken its toll and i had yet another exciting day spent crouched under the wheel arch of some one elses pride and joy
At first i thought it was a case of patching a few holes from just behind the rear wheel arch up to just in front of the rear wheel arch on both the near side and off side but once i had cleaned the rust away the n/s chassis leg had one continous hole about two and half feet long
One thing i had on my side was the fact that this wasnt a p**s thin car chassis and the clean/good bits of the chassis were solid and i knew i had a good foundation to weld to.
After cutting a few templates from card and transfering them to steel i managed to repair the chassis with full runs instead of having to stitch it here and there. A few of the original holes were covered up but apparently it doesnt matter and it will still still pass, which it did!!!
At first i thought it was a case of patching a few holes from just behind the rear wheel arch up to just in front of the rear wheel arch on both the near side and off side but once i had cleaned the rust away the n/s chassis leg had one continous hole about two and half feet long
One thing i had on my side was the fact that this wasnt a p**s thin car chassis and the clean/good bits of the chassis were solid and i knew i had a good foundation to weld to.
After cutting a few templates from card and transfering them to steel i managed to repair the chassis with full runs instead of having to stitch it here and there. A few of the original holes were covered up but apparently it doesnt matter and it will still still pass, which it did!!!