Not uncommon, unfortunately. Mine was the same, if not worse. The whole lot fills with water over the years. It is worth having a good squint down the chassis rails - are your captive nuts for the bumper irons still in place? Might be worth, as above, replacing the rear chassis member sections. Schofields do repair sections.
The first one is in the bottom of the D post, so with the D post repair sections you will replace those. Give the chassis legs a good tap with a hammer. Check the other 2 around the captives.
Will do. Thanks guys and everyone who replied, appreciate your advice on this. Not looking forward to it, but I'm going to dust off the welder. Will update my resto thread!
Eek, It always looks bad at first, one you've cut back & tidied up it will look better & should be "obvious" what you need to do. Looks like the inner valance is toast, once the outer is off you might get lucky & just need the lower half of the inner. That would save a load of pain.
I'm going to order a new inner and outer valance. I thought there was only the lower part of a inner valance, didn't realise there was a top bit, or is it the bit the engine lid locks onto when closed?
The inner cross member goes all the way across, and the chassis legs weld to it. If you need chassis leg repairs, I used the Schofield panels and they were excellent. I salvaged the swoopy part of the heat shields and used the Schofield repair sections for the flat bits. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk
Aghhhhhh! Pics have gone. Was using this as a guide, due to most pictures being blocked by photo bucket. Any chance you can re post?
Sure.. Strange though, I can see them in both the original post and your quote? Have you got images switched off in your browser?
