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Haylands



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Front and Rear Winch bumpers and swing away wheel carrier..

Been meaning to do these for ages but haven't been able to because of various bit's of me needing welding up and repairing, only one joint left to go and a mate offered to help with the big stuff so have started on them, doing the rear first as mine is on LPG and I've been pushing my luck green laning for a year with no spare wheel...

With a spare wheel carrier two thirds of the rear drop down tailgate is covered and you would see one reversing light and a bit of the old numberplate suround... not that attractive so I decided to sort out a smoothed out tailgate..

First job, cut out the whole numberplate surround








Cut out several pieces of plate I used 1.2mm to give it plenty of strength, the bootlid is made up of three skins anyway so is pretty tough.. Tack welded them in all round the edge, moving from place to place to reduce the heat build up and possible warping, carrying on until it's all done





Ground it all down









Then just a bit of filler work, got it to the primer stage and then dropped it off at the painters... came back looking very nice...





Next job was to remove he back box from the exhaust, mines been hit several times and wasn't far off falling off anyway and I wanted to see 1. how loud it was and 2 how high I could get the new bumper ... well the answer to 1. is VERY LOUD, it makes small children cry and sets off car alarms... it really is too loud to live with so I will be putting in a couple of smaller rear boxes when the bumper is finally in place and I know how much room there is... I just cut the tailpipes off the rear box and joined them to the pipes with some 60mm ID flexi exhaust pipe, welded on some brackets and used the rear pair of exhaust mounts.. then sprayed it all black after this picture....





Then onto the bumper, started yesterday and took off the old one, out with the corrugated plastic and knock up a template... radius was done by hand, wanted the bumper to stick out a bit further than the original to help protect the rear wings..





Drilled out a piece of 8mm x 200mm plate for a rear support for the bumper, this will give a massive amount of strength to the rear of the FF and the bumper...





Cut the bumper top from the template, did two so the sides were the same shape, then the sides as well, tack it all up and used the piece of angle to ensure it is flat...





Offer it up into place and do a bit of head scratching and lots of measuring....





Top and front made out of 4mm plate, next job to bend the front piece around the top, tacking it as you go, takes a fare bit of effort to bend it around the corner.... we cut it a few feet longer than needed to get a good pull around the bend..





Put a few good tacks either side to give it some strength...


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Welded a Winch plate into the bottom and cut a hole for the fare lead, a hole will be cut in the top for the Winch to go in...

Offered it back to the car and checked the fit, do have to say it looks like a dodgem car!!!!





Fit was very good though








Then dropped a line from the rear wing and light onto the top of the bumper for the fill in...


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Cut the fill in, again out of 4mm plate and contoured it to fit the gap...





Both sides done, drivers side needs trimming back a bit, also working out the bottom profile of the bumper to give better clearance and some aesthetics...








Tack a return on the top edge..


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Then weld it up and grind it off smooth....


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Checked it one last time and it is looking good, fit's very nicely and I think will look great when painted..


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Then started welding all the seams, put a return on the bottom edge for strength and added some webs inside for more strength..








The reason the bit below the rear light is pulled back in and not sticking out like the original bumper is so the spare wheel carrier has room to mount out the way of the tailgate and make the rear lights visible... Pete

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looks good pete
cant wait to see it painted Thumbs Up

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Well i have to say i'm disappointed. I've just read through all of this post then get to the bottom only to find it's not finished and we have to wait until 'tomorrow' Shocked for the next instalment! Laughing

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Haylands



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Well I like to keep you on the edge of your seat... Rolling with laughter Thumbs Up it takes ages to do these build threads so if I'd waited till I'd finished I would never get round to uploading all the photos........ Pete

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i'm wondering with that return angle you've put on either end if rear mudflaps from a defender 90 would fit on quite neatly.

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Watching closely with interest! Im looking into rear mounting a winch also

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Mad Max meets Brinks MAT Laughing

Great job Pete, as always sir Bow down

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looking good so far Pete Thumbs Up If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

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You really are one talented B*stard Pete. I'm actually surprised you haven't bobtailed it yet Thumbs Up

Are you going to paint it body colour or black?

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A word used all to often.....but in this case 100% justified.

LEGEND Bow down Is this where I put the car details and a bit about myself ?........

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Wow, eagerly awaiting the next instalment. Thumbs Up

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You do keep yourself busy Pete!
hope your legs/hip/knees are holding up...
looks like the Rangie is going to look like a giant Frontera -on acid

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Thanks chaps... to answer a few questions...

I hate mudflaps, they only get ripped off anyway so it won't be having any...

It's in my garage at the moment being painted, going to stone chip it then body colour. It will be having a shakedown this weekend in the Lakes and I want to live with it for a bit before I make the final decision on it's finish...

John... you recon it looks like a Frontera!!!!! Censored bloody hope not... better chuck the bumper away and start again!!!

Stan & Craig... don't need PDC anymore, that's for sure..... Thumbs Up Pete

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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
-Click for Project Fatty off roader-

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Pity help anyone of they run into the back of that Shocked

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