Land Rover bulkhead restoration


 

Is your restoration project being held up by a rotten bulkhead?  Does your bulkhead look like the ones above?  Tried to find a good second hand one and drawn a blank?  Then come and talk to me. I can salvage all but the rustiest bulkheads.  The bulkhead is sandblasted to expose all corrosion, which is cut out and replaced with new metal.  The bulkhead is then blasted again, hot zinc sprayed and seam sealed ready for painting.

This early Series IIA bulkhead has had new footwells, door pillars, mounting brackets and repair around the top corners.  Now ready for another 40 years' service.

The same bulkhead viewed from the other side.

If your bulkhead is really too far gone to save, I can convert a brand new Defender bulkhead to Series III specification.  Sadly I am unable to offer this service for Series II and IIA bulkheads at present (although when I get the time, I will have a crack at overcoming the technical problems which prevent me from fitting a Series II dash panel neatly to a TD5 bulkhead)..

Brand new Defender TD5 bulkhead straight out of the box.  Guaranteed 100% rot free.

You have to be a bit brave to take a new bulkhead and do this to it...

New footwells in place, centre area left to do. (This one is left hand drive)

One 'new' Series III bulkhead, painted and ready to fit. (Sorry about the dust).  In this case the customer specified Defender type screen hinges, allowing a Defender one-piece screen to be used - I can offer the Series II or III type hinge brackets to suit customer preference.

Typical costs: Full restoration £600 - £650, 'new' (ex Defender) Series III bulkhead from £750.  I can also modify new Defender bulkheads to fit older 90 and 110 vehicles - there are some small but significant differences.

Current turnround time for bulkheads is around 6 weeks, so book now to avoid disappointment.

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