Could Be The End Of My Truck

[bigdazz]

sorry for you mate in same boat with besty crank seal away hope u fix her good luck

[Rich]

Goog luck with it Steve but with the great bunch of lads on here im sure it will soon be fixed

[MrWolf]

Whoa that doesn't look pretty

My truck is of similar year as yours have and I have seen several other Fronteras with rust in that exact same area. Think I'll pop the fender off and have a look at mine pretty soon. I'm planning a rebuild of the engine and a new gearbox as Christmas presents for it. Better to treat possible rust now than to wait and have it developing...

Best of luck to you with fixing yours!Seems like a new panel is the way to go unless you can cut out and isolate the bad parts in an area which is replaceable with a new crossmember of box section and add to that with smaller parts of sheet metal to connect to the remaining, good, not rusted parts of your existing front panel.

[colley]

Does anyone no if a LWB and SWB share the same front panel as i have found a LWB in my local scrapie
Need to no ASAP as i need to cut it off myself and the guy is going to crush it soon

[tom]

[colley]

[Road Hog]

Yep,deffo all panels (except wings & bumper corners) are common up to the rear doors

[colley]

Well i have been to my local scrapie today and got a hole front panel for the pricey sum of £25 However i did have to remove it myself.
It was very easy to remove as the guy said just cut anything that's in your way

Here is the truck it came off


This is what it looked like when i had finished with it



And this is the front panel once i had cut it off



Just waiting to get hold of the contact for the welding to get back to me

[pot bellied pixie]

Posh scrappies that is ..CARPETED ????

We only get mud and oil up here

[jason]

I Carnot believe that is still there,Lucky or what,i see you got your favorite tool out again

You will soon have Trusty Rusty,up and running again in no time

[snapper]

Doh, as yer wheel arches are away you should have chopped those out as well, grab as much ready shaped steel as possible, you can then chop to fit as required, saves the technical hammer coming out.

Bought an old sierra estate once only to find the back end was away with the wild haggis (it was in Scotland), took about a week with the grinder, a technical set of hammers and the mig welder to sort. I ended up chopping up a couple of old car roofs up to make the required panels and box section reinforcements and then welding them in. Car went on for another 3 years after that until a fiat uno commited vehicle suicide in the back end written off due to cost of a new hatch door ffs....


By the looks of it yours would be easy enough to fix, bit fiddly but more than do-able. Well worth buying a decent mig welder and learning to use it. Depending on how much you cut off it might be worth while having another fronty handy to measure up so you get the replacement panels in the right place.

Good luck and I hope it's not raining if you do the thing out in the front yard........ mig welder, rain .... electric

[Road Hog]

[gregster]

Well done sourcing the bits....now just a case of chopping the rotten panel out and grafting the new section in...

[jason]

[Road Hog]

[bigdazz]

glad your fixing her sir

[colley]

Is trusty rusty still going

[jason]

nnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, you cannot use that car name has it is already been appointed to a famous Fronty[/quote]

,ok then,Racey Rusty

[/quote]

Nah, should be ...... Rust`s faster than it`s driven ............. double points to me there I think Jase[/quote]


10 out of 10

[Road Hog]

[frontydan]