Stronger holes.
OK. Material surounding hole :D
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Access for oil changes
Even if it's a pain to have to take undertray off for the oil change I think it gives you a good look of the engine to see so everything is ok, with a hatch you will not have as good of a overview of the engine regards leaks, bad wires and so on....
After all, it only takes 5-10 painfull minutes to remove it.;)
Thanks to Ragman I now have an original :D To be fitted soon. I have a second hand one off an oil burner. When I offered up the orignal against the oil burner the oil burner is longer and wider and has a metal plate fixed to it. In my opinion it could be modfied very simply,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MGZT-Rover-75-...item2308658d1a
Available on ebay for oil burners
The one shown on ebay is for the oil burner same as mine, I would think is would also fit a 190 Greeners managed to fit the oil burner one to his 260.
Speak to nick at Austins im sure he would advise you. I am attending a nano meet (folks fixing cars) on the 13th I will see if we can confirm that for you. Hope that helps:D Also check out Andy s post No 22 with picture and you should see for you self.
Think my friend in question and I are attending that one looking at the list of names ;)
Was going to ask Nick on my next visit up there and well on past visits as well but you know what its like you get distracted talking about everything else with the cars.... :D
No 26 is better they are the same way round.
http://thumbsnap.com/s/56EvWQKE.jpg
http://thumbsnap.com/s/VHvBLlCe.jpg
Hi
If you can take it to Janspeed on 9th April I'll have it
Dave aka Jenksman
Where are we now!!! with this?? Anybody got any info on/position regarding under-tray,s
Looking for a a response here
Dixie
Whao! Calm down. Unsure from your post what you need to know, but ...
Do you need one?
The thing is there for a reason (well several actually, if you read through the threads here), and they all had them, even if many have gone AWOL, so a good thing to have. No down sides anyway, surely? Sound proofing, under car airflow, cooling airflow through both radiator and the engine bay, keeps all sorts of mechanicals and electronics apart from road salt, water, mud, ice, snow and other detritus, not to mention (some) protection from speed bumps and any random road kills too!
Where to get one.
Big problem is to get one, being NLA from ex-dealers and XPart, and second biggest, if you do find one even second hand, is to pay for it.
I was lucky enough to the buy the actual new NOS one (KRB000151) from AndyG, pictured in his post #48 above, but
I hear the cut down FWD 75/ZT diesel ones are almost just as good, albeit with a bit of work.
Any other option?
As far as an alternative is concerned, having a re-make run didn't look feasible cost-wise, as I recall.
The 'el-cheepo' thin plastic ones on eBay, are really useless, or so I hear from those who have tried them.
... I hope that answers your question, even if perhaps not what you hoped to hear :)
David
Nigel. Joined P,heads cannot find undertray. Any pointers.
dixiejon
Thank for ur insights David. Am still on the hunt for a 260 undertray.
dixiejon
OK, I sympathise. You will find it impossible to find one as 'NOS', I think.
Next week I will see if I can make a 'brown-paper' pattern from the original NOS undertray I got from AndyG, which I happen to have just taken off the car for an oil-change, and allow that to be used to accurately mark up a Diesel FWD 75/ZT for "trimming" and hole-boring. No personal experience of doing that, but hear that the FWD Diesel one, being deeper, is a more accurate shape than FWD petrol ones, and the end-result is then quite acceptable.
... of course you still need to find an intact diesel FWD one!
Perhaps Tim won't mind if I lodge a template with him for anyone else interested in future.
David
Yep. :)
Don't forget the club has a brand new tray which is being kept for possible re-make/template. We tried a few years ago as per this thread and interest was too low (cost too high per tray) for a production run. If memory is intact think it was a min of 50 trays. Different members have tried in the past to develop a tray but it normally fulls back to either scrappy or adjusting the diesel tray.
I'll make up a brown-paper pattern anyway next week, and send an extra one to Tim as well. Saves doing the work twice!
Good point about shipping an actual undertray, Colin. Imagine what it would cost to send one to Max over in Oz, should he need one!
Post Brexit, postage cost of even a large envelope to ship a paper pattern NL>UK has doubled!
David
FYI the undertray being advertised for £40 on eBay now is a cut-down FWD undertray as the seller confirms in the description.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/125551184...Bk9SR5L93LL2YA
Not wildly expensive though, so could be worth an offer if you live in Tyne and Wear?
David