Land rover cherry picker chassis failures

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Land Rover chassis failures | News | Vertikal.net

Nasty:thumbdown:

Some company will get there knuckles wrapped for that, sounds like no one was hurt though

Looks nasty, when I first saw the title I expected it to be a old rot box.

I would say it’s a bit of a mix of to ridged design and a bit of operator error in not placing enough load on the front legs when up &/or having the front of the land rover up-hill when on modest slopes regularly.

Its surprisingly common on trucks when truck cranes are fitted because the sub-frame has been made to ridged and the vehicle gets flexed a lot off-road etc.

Thats a good post,frightening stuff,from an end user's perspective I hope someone gets hung for that!

Bet they will have a new game to play,pass the hot potato!

not good to see at all , but i remember reading that someone making arb 4x4's is no longer willing to use landrovers as they break far to much !!!

not good to see at all , but i remember reading that someone making arb 4x4's is no longer willing to use landrovers as they break far to much !!!

Mine aint broke yet

Mine aint broke yet

what age is your landy ? i speak to the guys in the garrage at western power down here and they have the oppinion that the current defenders are not worth bothering with , i must admit i have never been in there and not seen a couple of landys in bits . i guess its another case of cutting build costs at the expense of reliability and quality which is a shame for what was a good british designed and built machine

I did my 4 year apprenticeship with locomotors building specialist vehicles. We would not have built a vehicle like that on that chassis. If you look at the first picture who in their right mind would put that sort of weight on a 2mm box section 150mm x 75mm . That kit would have been put on something like a 7 tonne renault chassis or by todays standard a mit canter.

As far as I know, the basic chassis of a defender has not changed in nearly 30 years:confused1: