What do I do now?

[brucejohn]

Brought home the chassis from the powder coater, what do I do now? Go play! WooHoo

[jb_]

Put some land rover on it!

(and take more pics as you do)

[amcordo]

Are you kidding? And ruin a perfectly good chassis!?

Put some land rover on it!

(and take more pics as you do)

[Nium]

That chassis is way to clean better go bash a knuckle and bleed on it some. Can't wait to see the rest of it on there!

[SafeAirOne]

Brought home the chassis from the powder coater, what do I do now?

Ship it to Manchester, New Hampshire. I'll be waiting for it.

[brucejohn]

Thank you all. I can't wait to put some blood, sweat and land rover on there. This chassis going to be driven, is Manchester on the way to Middlebury from Texas?

[Bostonian1976]

Ship it to Manchester, New Hampshire. I'll be waiting for it.

Mark it's an 88 - are you going to remove a couple of doors off of yours?

On the other hand I have two very sad 88's that need some support (pun intended)

[SafeAirOne]

Mark it's an 88 - are you going to remove a couple of doors off of yours?

Is it? Hmm...Looks 109ish to me, but I could be wrong. BTW Jason--Your PM box is full.

This chassis going to be driven, is Manchester on the way to Middlebury from Texas?

Yes it is. Well...it can be.

[brucejohn]

Mark it's an 88 - are you going to remove a couple of doors off of yours?

If it's an 88 I have more work ahead than I thought!

Yes it is. Well...it can be.

Excellent I love those round about journeys you can't get google maps to plan for you.

[brucejohn]

Here are a couple of updates. A little progress, now she rolls again.

[jac04]

Looks great! Can't wait to see the project progress.

[brucejohn]

Thank you. This wasn't supposed to be such a project. Long time drooler over rovers I purchased her and sold my old rig without checking the chassis well enough. A little more than a month later she started coming apart with serious cancer and bondo. This was going to be a driver, so hopefully I can get her back together fairly quickly.

I am going nuts not driving her.

Jac04...I can't tell you how much I appreciate your thread. Reading and looking through I have learned a great deal.

As you can see the rear end sits up so high the OME shocks are fully extended. I doubt the tub and top will settle her much. At least I can add a rear mounted tank without worrying.

[jac04]

Remember that the spring rate of the rear springs is much less than the front. This means that they will compress quite easily as weight is added to the rear. Don't worry too much about it right now.

[brucejohn]

Thanks again Jac04. After reinstalling the drive train today I was surprised how much the rears compressed. While only about 3/4" all that weight is really up front. We will see, it may not be too bad.

[jac04]

Make sure to keep us up-to-date with pictures.
It's nice to know there is someone else out there having as much fun as I am.