Dissupointed in my Patrol

Rock Crawler,

There's a price to be paid for having fun :))))

Yep thats the price of fun.

Thats why our rally cars used to get all the seam welding and reinforcing done before they turned a wheel. :-)

Incidently its better than cracked chassis which a lot of range rovers suffer because of good ride,
I had one coming at me on gibber near Mt Dare at about 120kph I recon

Don't GQ's crack around the floor to chassis mounting points also? Particularly the back ones? I'm pretty sure that was a known source for a lot of noises that reverb as if they are coming from the front end.

I could be wrong...

Dave

Hi Crawler,
From what i have read over the past 2 years, it seems to be more common on GQ's that drive over corrigations. Seems the inner guards are the "pivot" point where all the vibrating metal meets, thus causing it to crack. I have also noticed that cracking on BOTH inner gards occurs IF a dual battery system is fitted.

My first GQ never did any serious corrigation work, instead she copped a hammering with mud and rocks. I would abuse the crap out of mine getting airborn many times. after 600,000 kms she had no signs of cracks.

I recall back in the days when the TE model cortina was here, they had a chassis crack problem in the front end. The crack would run from top to bottom until the chassis would break off. FORD, to their credit found a way to stup the crack by drilling a 1/8th hole at the end of the crack line. So thats what we did to them all until ford finally included this drilling in its production line. It stopped the cracking from expanding alright, worked a treat. Maybe if you have a crack in ur inner guard, you could try drilling each end, it will stop the crack from travelling at that point
Ange

You have been known to break trucks.....LOL

Adam (the original owner of your GQ) had serious cracking issues around the body mounts and reinforced them. That would be 3 or 4 years ago.
That has probably transferred the stresses to the adjacent areas causing the cracking that you are now finding.

don't worry 80 series wagons do the same thing.