Land rover cherry picker chassis failures

[Kev Stephenson]

Seen on another forum

 

Land Rover chassis failures | News | Vertikal.net

[Robert_S]

Nasty:thumbdown:

 

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

[tractorboy1]

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

[b101uk]

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.

[geoff]

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!

[combined tree services]

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 !!!

[Dean Lofthouse]

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

[combined tree services]

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

[gensetsteve]

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.

[18 stoner]

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