Plough Bar Mod?

[agent_zed]

Hi,

so now the powder coat has worn off the lower part of the plough bar i can bring myself to weld bits of it and just repaint so i was wondering if it is safe enough to cut and re-position the plough bar and reweld.

 

My sump and gearbox are about an inch higher than the plough anyway so i would look to cut mostly through the plough near the chassis and bend upwards and re-weld. Giving a bit more ground clearance and making it a lot easier to MOT as currently have to lift the car to slide their jack along the lift and takes 3 of us to do it.

 

Wont be able to remove the sump in situ anymore but hopefully won't need too.

 

Is it safe to do that? anyone done it?

[nigelt]

I had the same problem with the plough and the rolling road. I jacked up the car, then put another under the plough and then lowered the car down slowly. I was able to bend the plough up by about 3 inches with no adverse effect to the engine mounts etc.

 

Nige

[Guest 2b cruising]

+1. Just done that on a new build.

No movement to any other part of the chassis or engine mounts.

Plough now just 1/2 " lower than sump.

Hight gained approx 2.5"

[Jez Morton]

Before I get my jack out, where did the plough tube bend? is it one point or did it spread?

From what you guys are saying I can just jack up on the front of the tube and it will bend up.

[Andi]

Chop it out and leave it i say

[tractor]

I could move my plough bar up and down by hand so it aint part of the chassis structure

[Guest 2b cruising]

You need to stop eating the porridge Chris.

[Dave R]

Cut an replaced mine when I put the duratec in... it was in the way as were the engine mount tubes

[Guest 2b cruising]

Plough bar bends between the engine mount and the front of it.

When I did it, there was no movement in any cassis mounted objects.

[Bob Tucker]

I have the sliding pillar chassis with a big X at the front of the chassis.

I removed the plough completely, & took some measurements.

No movement in 8 years.