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I went to ARB the other week to price a decent bar for the 75 series I bought, to replace the crude bar which was manufactured straight from the cowcocky's book of farm repairs.
And after I woke up with the salesman slapping my face and waving smelling salts under my nose (I think they keep em on hand) I said ahh no thanks and made my way home for a beer and a think.
I have scoured the trading post to find something to do the job but zilch.
And then at my uncles place today I see a bar in his yard from god knows what, and he told me he got it with a pile of stuff in the one lot from an auction.
I told him the tale and asked how much, he said he didn't want it and if I took it away out of the yard it was all mine (BARGAIN).
I ripped the old bar off and lined the new one up for a look.
I rekoned if it were mounted a couple of inches higher and not so wide it would do the job fine. Out with my old friend Mr gas axe the friend of many a frustrated fitter.
I cut off the mounts and cut 100mm from the guts and joined it back togeather to make it fit.
I pulled up to have a beer and a bit more of a think on the mounts as they will have to be good enough for pulling out Land Rovers.
Thats where the project has stopped for the day but I have it at the trial fit stage and all the hard bit is done so with some luck you can see the final pictures soon.
Cheers Kev.
I cut it in half and the two pipes at the top I cut near the upright to hide the weld.
Here is the mount after I had done the jod with the blue tounge.
I had a good look at the front to decide how to mount the bar.
After a couple of beers I had an idea.
Don't know what the bar was off, but it was wider and not quite as high in the front as the 75 series.
Looks funny with nothing on it.
It just didn't quite go back togeather so I had to give it a bit of encouragement with the chian block. Thats took up the bit of gap and made it all look straight and after a careful grind you would not know I have cut it in half.
And then it was time to see how it looked.
And think about how to make it mount so that it uses the original Toyota points and be strong enough to get them Landys out of the holes that they make. And since this is also a winch mounting bar it will need to be good. I will have to set the winch to one side after I have made the mods, but hopefully this won't create any probs.
I will have to wait until I get a winch and find out then I guess.
May need a couple more beers then to get some idea's.
Anyway hopefully a bit of feedback will give me some more idea's.
Cheers Kev
Hi Kev
funny how some of us get in and do sh** like that to save some pennies (they quote over 1k for a new one, I reckon) looks like you have the matter well in hand, and thats a fine idea to sit back and have an ale or 2 or 3 while studying the job, more to spend on fishin
any way its looking the part (No RHK342) and theres the patern No
cheers
blaze
Kev, looks like it might be for a 100series or maybe a Nissan. Hard to imagine what else it would have come off. Looks the part though.
There is a huge a huge auction up here next month for the ADRAIL mob who have just built the railway line from down south. I will be going and offering some bids on driving lights and uhf's, don't know about the winches. uhf's are in lots of 12 and there are about 300 various units, vhf etc. What I am getting at is if any of you lot are interested I can only use so many radios etc. drop me a message and I will give you details of the web page so you can have a look at the list www.mgs.net.au I think.
There is heaps of other stuff. Might go cheap, might be through the roof.
The point I was getting at Kev is there might be a nice set of driving lights there with your name on it.
For what it's worth I was quoted $1950 for a bull bar for my chev. Can't make one because of the air bag. Know a way around it? let me know.
You can have the old one off the Cruiser Buff (bull bar).It might even fit the boat to run down them big fish up that way.
As for lights I have some already thanks for thinking of me but.
Cheers Kev.
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