Horse Box chassis replacement

[MrsMozart]

I think I've got it right...

A friend has suggested that instead of selling m'poorly lorry for repairs, that I get a new chassis and cab fitted to the body...

This is not something I'd thought of, and if I had I would have dismissed it out of hand as too expensive. But..., given the price of replacing the lorry with a trailer, and the fact that I'd rather have my lorry on the road, I'm looking into it.

So, anyone with any experience of doing this? Anyone done it with their own lorry?

 

[aidybex]

I did it with mine - well actually I bought two lorries - one with a horse box back (K reg transit which my horse could trot faster than!!!!) then a R reg Iveco with a curtain sider. Our local garage was able to do it, with help from my husband and a loadall and a forklift. I got underneath the horsebox body once it was off the transit and got all the rust off then painted it with chassis paint. This was a 3.5 ton box though, and now I have an R reg box which cost about £2000 including new clutch etc. Well worth doing if you have a sound body.........and mind of course!!! If I can be more help just ask!!

 

[Divasmum]

It depends how the box was built originally. Some can be put onto a new chassis others can't.

 

[perfect11s]

Um we need some details

... it depends what you have if its a box on a chassis without a luton then its fairly simple, but if its say an old bedford with a luton then it gets complicated... post some pics if you can or details of it.

 

[billyslad]

I swapped a ford cargo chassis for an Iveco chassis quite easily and sucessfully over a weekend , if I did it again I would use an oxy acetalane torch for the chassis bolts as that was the worst part undoing them
Tryy to get the same make lorry and whhelbase length to mak life easy

 

[MrsMozart]

Ah, right. Thank you all.

I'll get some piccies off another machine later and post them.

It's a Ford Cargo - I think it's a 0811, but will check as after five hours sleep I may well think my name is Rupert and I'm a jet pilot

. The cab is non-tilt and appears welded at the sides to the body; there is a Luton, but the cab roof doesn't touch it. There is a cut-through from cab to lorry. The body itself appears sound, it's the chassis that has well and truly had it

. It's long, stalled for four (skinny!) horses and has a decent sized living area.

Edited (because I'm asleep): it's 7.5 ton with 1.8 ton of that as payload - so can't carry four horses anyway (unless they're minatures

).

 

[billyslad]

If you find an Iveco 75e15 or similar the cab height etc will be similar to that of the cargo . I paid £1200 for the chassis that at the time was 8 years old try and find a replacement chassis that already has a long plate