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There's a hole in my Defender...
The lovely and wonderful previous owner ( Rolling Eyes ) of my Land Rover has drilled lots of holes in the back. Most are fairly small (<10mm) so I'm covering them with foil tape before lining the back with Silent Coat and something wipe clean. However there are two big ones, about 40mm diameter like this:


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They did have a bit of steel badly riveted on top of them which looked silly, cut things that lay on top of them and were generally annoying. Is there a better way of doing it that will give me a reasonably flush surface to put stuff on top?

Preferable cheap and easy Laughing

Also are three runners along the load bed of a 110 HT standard? I've taken them out because they were really tatty and am replacing them with some cargo rail from Mud.
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grommets? 2002 110 td5
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Can you not cut a square piece of alloy out and bond it with a 2k epoxy resin, either top or bottom?

This is how I have previously filled holes drilled in to Series wings etc before the Tig welder! 80" 80" 86" 88" 90"

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Put a piece of ally underneath and rivet from the top? But make sur you seal it. Ray
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It must have been me as the previous owner im going to cut a plug hole into the rear tub of my double cab, I get a paddling pool when it rains. The tailgate seals cant be genuine parts as they work to well Laughing

As said id put a grommet in it Wink

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ian series 1 wrote:
Can you not cut a square piece of alloy out and bond it with a 2k epoxy resin, either top or bottom?

This is how I have previously filled holes drilled in to Series wings etc before the Tig welder!


I have used this technique many times to effect "invisible" repairs in wings, etc., simple and effective. You can use Araldite (pref not the rapid one) and a heat source (hot air paint stripper, fan heater, SWMBO's hairdryer if she's out, etc) to cure the epoxy in minutes to full strength.

I've just realised that some of the repairs on my S1s done this way have been on for more than 2/3rds the life of the vehicle! Gulp!
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Thanks Thumbs Up

So I need to get myself some slow cure epoxy, a bit of aluminium sheet and borrow my girlfriends hair drier she seems to have installed in my house.
Then just clean off all the crud from underneath Big Cry
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Just make sure you put the hair dryer back where you found it......... Whistle 80" 80" 86" 88" 90"

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Cupboard wrote:
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So I need to get myself some slow cure epoxy, a bit of aluminium sheet and borrow my girlfriends hair drier she seems to have installed in my house.
Then just clean off all the crud from underneath Big Cry


or just bung a grommet in it 2002 110 td5
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You could use a round metal or plastic conduit box cover Thumbs Up
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Re: There's a hole in my Defender...
Cupboard wrote:
The lovely and wonderful previous owner ( Rolling Eyes ) of my Land Rover has drilled lots of holes in the back. Most are fairly small (<10mm) so I'm covering them with foil tape before lining the back with Silent Coat and something wipe clean. However there are two big ones, about 40mm diameter


For the last you mention there, two of these maybe? The good thing is they will float when water fills the space through the smaller holes. Whistle

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^^^^have you got the part number for the above item? ^^^^

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possible a heater exhaust? mine had two holes like that for the heater. sealing my hole....... alli and white marine grad sikaflex bond and seal in one Thumbs Up Range Rover p38 4.6 99 lpg(gone Sad )
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United Kingdom 2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 HT Corris Grey
I think it was either a heater or a generator, there was an exhaust that I removed underneath one of them.
The rear door seal was in a terrible way which would make sense with a generator.
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