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| mikeh501 Member Since: 07 Jan 2013 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 1142  
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Stainless without doubt.
There are various kits but I don't think anyone does everything for the floor and bulkhead area. Self tappers for floor plates. M10 I think for floor to seat box M8 for various bolts around footwells. Be aware that these will be rusty as hell on the other side probably. The bulkhead to chassis bracket ones etc. To do those ones inside your foot wells may well require removing the wings and inner wings to get access and rebuild unless your lucky. My guess by the pics is that the bottoms of your bulkhead needs some repairs as it's obviously rusting along the bottom edge where it meets the floor. Rebuild ahoy lol. |
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12th Jun 2016 7:20am |
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| leeds Member Since: 28 Dec 2009 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 8582
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Entreq used to do a kit for waterproofing the floor pan.
This included some closed cell compression tape. It might be worthwhile considering getting some closed cell compression tape for your refurbishment. Brendan Edited to make it clearer that I was suggesting use of closed cell compression tape was a good idea rather then a source of stainless fixings. Last edited by leeds on 12th Jun 2016 8:42am. Edited 1 time in total |
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12th Jun 2016 7:44am |
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| Retroanaconda Member Since: 04 Jan 2012 Location: Scotland Posts: 2666 
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Or, rather than buying some posh bolts from Europe... just go to your local fixings place and get what you need for pennies.
Self tappers for the floor screws that go into the plastic inserts. M8 bolts/nuts for the floor bolts and the ones into the bulkhead bracket. All the part numbers are in the books, which will usually give you the sizes if you Google them. #14 rings a bell for the screws, but don't hold me to that. Bolts are just standard M8 of appropriate length. I used stainless Torx-head self tappers for the floor screws, but normal nuts and bolts for the rest. Reason being that it's quick and easy to deal with a rusty M8 nut/bolt but rusty flat-head self tappers can often require drilling/grinding off if it's too far gone. As for the seals, normal foam sealing tape will do it. Or jut buy the LR part. |
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12th Jun 2016 8:26am |
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| Jimb1978 Member Since: 05 Sep 2012 Location: Huddersfield Posts: 808  
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YRM metal solutions do kits for this
http://www.yrm-metal-solutions.co.uk/epage...iewProduct 2002 110 td5 |
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12th Jun 2016 10:33am |
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| nitram17 Member Since: 08 Jun 2014 Location: newcastle Posts: 2261 |
I agree with the buy British theme Retro as some of the LR stuff from europe makes your eyes water price wise and i personally would only consider buying if the product could not be found elswhere!and even then i would probably wake up with cold sweats. If others havn't got a local "nuts guy" i would look on this very good site for your part size ect: https://www.landroverworkshop.com/ https://www.landroverworkshop.com/diagrams...ates_52666 Then for the nuts ect the internet is your friend i use this site: http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Falcon-Workshop-Supplies allways had good service from falcon but there are many others on the web! If your wanting bespoke parts and lots of SS try here: http://www.yrm-metal-solutions.co.uk/ Lots of great products on YRM including ss/ali floorplan bits...beware I think they make a lot of profits on their delivery costs Retro by normal tape do you mean the houshold draft excluder stuff .....what is LR compression foam tape exactly? |
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12th Jun 2016 11:27am |
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| Retroanaconda Member Since: 04 Jan 2012 Location: Scotland Posts: 2666
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Any only foam sealing tape will do. Something like this for example:
https://www.tape2go.com/catalog/product/vi...-foam-tape |
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12th Jun 2016 1:48pm |
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| Screbble Member Since: 26 Apr 2015 Location: Lancashire Posts: 2108 
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Great supplier/product link Retroanaconda.
Thanks  |
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12th Jun 2016 2:02pm |
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| nitram17 Member Since: 08 Jun 2014 Location: newcastle Posts: 2261 |
Hi Retro sorry if this is daft question but is the seal waterproof or are we just using it to fill in between two different types of metal to prevent corrosion? Is the thickness of thr tape an issue? |
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12th Jun 2016 4:09pm |
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| Retroanaconda Member Since: 04 Jan 2012 Location: Scotland Posts: 2666
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It's primarily to seal it, without anything in there you will get jets of water into the cab if you hit a puddle at speed. Not to mention drafts.
It will also provide some insulation between the metals yes, but in my experience this isn't an area that suffers particularly badly from bimetallic corrosion. |
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12th Jun 2016 4:30pm |
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