tyroguru
Club Member
I'm looking for some advice around what to do with my passenger side chassis rail so massive thanks for any suggestions on how to go about things.
Basically the battery tray area including toe board, firewall, chassis rail, battery tray floor and the battery tray were rusted to different degrees and need some replacement. I replaced the toe board as part of the floor work and have moved on to the engine bay side of things. Below is a photo for reference on how things currently look:
The chassis rail was holed in several areas and I have removed the rusty section it as you can see above. The rest of the rail and the inner fender (do we call it "fender" in the UK?) is in extremely good condition though. My question is: do I need to replace the whole of the chassis rail as one complete unit or is it possible to just replace the section shown above? I have bought a whole chassis rail off Andy @ Auto Panel Solutions which looks great and I don't mind doing the whole thing but it seems a shame to remove a lot of perfectly good rail if there isn't any need.
FYI, Andy said that it should all be done as it would introduce a weakness and I guess a lot of stress gets introduced in that section with the compression rod.
Basically the battery tray area including toe board, firewall, chassis rail, battery tray floor and the battery tray were rusted to different degrees and need some replacement. I replaced the toe board as part of the floor work and have moved on to the engine bay side of things. Below is a photo for reference on how things currently look:
The chassis rail was holed in several areas and I have removed the rusty section it as you can see above. The rest of the rail and the inner fender (do we call it "fender" in the UK?) is in extremely good condition though. My question is: do I need to replace the whole of the chassis rail as one complete unit or is it possible to just replace the section shown above? I have bought a whole chassis rail off Andy @ Auto Panel Solutions which looks great and I don't mind doing the whole thing but it seems a shame to remove a lot of perfectly good rail if there isn't any need.
FYI, Andy said that it should all be done as it would introduce a weakness and I guess a lot of stress gets introduced in that section with the compression rod.