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Yes dan that is exactly what early chassis owners should have done but it is 10 hours labour as its engine out.
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It's not that the early 2012 chassis can't be braced, they can, quite easily, it's all about access, as the bodywork needs to be removed to get to it, and possibly the engine too. This is a huge amount of work.
The factory were aware of the problem very early on, I've heard that at least one early dealer demonstrator chassis broke, and they used small gussets to beef up the chassis on 2013 cars, although I don't know of any breakages yet, this was super ceded by proper triangulation for the '14 model year. Incidentally, as far as I can see, this is the only proper triangulation on the whole car, it seems the factory designers decided not to triangulate the chassis at all for some reason? I thought the difference between 2013 and 2014 was just that the cross brace is now welded in rather than bolted.
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It wasn't something that that MMC made much fuss about - for some reason. Not that I'm in any way cynical you understand. 
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I thought the difference between 2013 and 2014 was just that the cross brace is now welded in rather than bolted.
The 2013 chassis has a bolt on cross brace just behind the engine , the 2014 has a welded in triangulation piece in the same position.
edit : these are Morgans so individual models may differ !
Last edited by nippymog; 02/08/14 12:56 PM.
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Yes dan that is exactly what early chassis owners should have done but it is 10 hours labour as its engine out. That's still a lot less labor and parts than replacing the entire chassis. I would think that MMC would take the bull by the horns and setup a team to do nothing but strength the chassis' of the older M3W's. This would ultimately save them 100's of thousands of dollars and customer loyalty. My guess is that even a cracked upper frame rail could be repaired with confidence and then strengthened and reutilized rather than a complete new chassis. With the right engineering, I think that's an oxymoron, the reinforcement parts would all be made up in advance and be nothing more than a weld in fix and then respray the frontend with urethane paint; not as durable as powder coating, but more than effective for a repair. You just know that this is only the tip of the iceberg for cracked or broken chassis'.
Dan
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