Wednesday, January 7, 2026

rear frame work



































I started work rebuilding the rear frame and setting up the rear crossmember. these land rover frames are interesting. They are made from thinner gauge steel but they are huge box sections that are fully hollow and welded. They are so different from the Toyota FJ40's that I'm used to working on. That said, I love how they are made. The welds on the stock frames are really ugly, but it's just a result of how they were constructed. I built this rear section of the frame out of thicker gauge steel that matches the stock rear crossmember thickness. It's going to be strong. I was lucky to have the rear tailgate hinge plates still itact on the rusted crossmember, so I cut them off and relocated on my new crossmember. I'm using the original factory drawing of the frame plus drawings I've made of the frame in CAD. This has required a ton of measuring and rechecking over and over as well as using the tub as reference. This means I've taken the tub on and off a million times.


 

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