Starting to think about my rear bar and have a few questions. In our 10yr plan we intend to come over to Australia with the Safari and spend 6 months driving around.
What I am looking for advice on...
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Starting to think about my rear bar and have a few questions. In our 10yr plan we intend to come over to Australia with the Safari and spend 6 months driving around.
What I am looking for advice on...
Finished up and fitted my new bar yesterday so thought I would through some picks
The starting point, the bar is designed to bolt directly to the Nissan factory pto winch basket using existing...
A couple of update pics
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It seems like a long time since I started this, no excuses just life getting in the way as it dose from time to time.
On Sunday I removed the chrome bumper ends off the front leaving just the...
Yeah I'm really stocked at how well they came up.
They were pretty cheap to make all up they used 10.5m of pipe, some scrape 6mm plate I had lying round or you could use 2.5m of 6x80mm flat bar,...
Yep I'm pretty happy with them. Tested them out as a jacking point tonight and they hardly flexed at all :D.
I am off to the West Coast this weekend so will give them a good work out there in the...
Didn't eat lunch today bolted these on instead
http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a604/russellferens/finshedslider_zpsf55aafb4.jpg?t=1369704770...
http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a604/russellferens/Slidersallpainted_zpsd863f8de.jpg?
Sliders all painted will fit them up on Thursday
Quick update, finshed both sliders off tonight:), Will get them painted up tomorrow and post some pictures
Made some more progress tonight and got the drivers side slider all ready to paint . Had a bit of a play around with angles and decided that I quite like them a bit of slop ...
Maybe this time
http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/russellferens/media/Slider1_zps4cbb9878.jpg.html
http://i1286.photobucket.com/albums/a604/russellferens/slidersreadyforpaint_zpsa8d61b2e.jpg
Right slight change of plan. Instead of using sandwich plates I have made up U sections for the rear and middle mounts and have made the front mounts up out of some 65 x 65 shs that goes in to the...
The pipe is med wall seamless. Over here if I weld to the chassis I then have to get it certified which at this stage I am trying to avoid.
I;m not to sure what I've done wrong with the pictures...
So I had a bit of time last night and today so I made these up
http://http://s1286.photobucket.com/user/russellferens/media/Slider1_zps4cbb9878.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1...
I won't be weighing it I am working the weight out of the steel list weight. for the 40mm is 3.08kg per meter and the 50mm is 3.5kg per meter. This means the sliders come in at just under 15kg per...
Well it has started. I have been thinking for a while about making up some protection for my Safari for a while and have been doing lots of research and looking at lots of pictures.
The plan is...