Land Rover Monthly

Fitting the body to the rolling chassis

HEN it comes to lowering a Defender body down on to a freshly built up rolling chassis, a play on the expression, ‘when less is more’, comes to mind – when slow is more. The object is to re-fit the body shell to the rolling chassis without causing damage, without trapping something in the wrong place – perhaps a hose or

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