Defender dropside body help needed

[scraggs]

Well I decided to crack on and build the body myself for the 130 but after putting the runner rails down the length of the chassis the usual landrover quality comes out and the offside tank bed support rail is miles out of line to the rest of the chassis.

Now I spoke to a friend who builds recovery bodies before I started and he said that he had seen one where it didn't have runners and the crossbearers were straight off the chassis mounts.

Does anyone here have a defender dropside (a tipper will have runner rails) they could have a look under for me and just confirm if it has runners or if the crossmembers are mounted straight to the chassis and there is no runner rail.

I will use a runner anyway for the extra strength but am just interested to know how others are done.

[treequip]

If its a drop side flat the build detail will vary depending on who built the flat.