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    Protecting my Y60 Safari's body

    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 to start in the middle with sliders and then work out to the front and then swing round to the rear. The front bar will be joined to the sliders with some fender guards and the rear bar will be linked to the sliders as well with bar work protecting the whole rear quarter from the top of the arch down with one bar coming up just in front of the rear lights and then another one coming up at the wheel arch, all the side bars front and rear will be welded in place forming a solid barrier right around the wagon. Just like an exo but only going up to the top of the wheel arch's.

    The front and rear bar's are going to be made out of 50mm med wall pipe and 40mm med wall pipe, the sliders out of 40mm med wall pipe and then mounted to the chassis with 80x10 flat bar sandwich plates

    Tonight I had a few spare hours so I have managed to get half way through the first slider. I will post up some pictures as I go and when I have figured out how

    I am now half way through the first slider and will post up some pictures when I work out how.

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    Good stuff, i look forward to seeing this mate. Maybe weigh the bits as you build so you can keep a track of weight
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    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 side. I will be keeping a telle as I go. It will be interesting to see the total weight at the end

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    So I had a bit of time last night and today so I made these up


    Also thought that a picture of the bear canvas should go up

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    Are you using seamless or thick walled steam pipe.
    You made 3 red crosses cause nothing happened lol

    If your able over there weld plates to chassis with 1/2 unc holes in 4 corners
    then sliders can bolt to them, they were strong enough on my other 4x4 as
    jacking point, could lift whole side of 4x4 up. Plus being seperate could also use as air tanks
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    Quote Originally Posted by threedogs View Post
    Are you using seamless or thick walled steam pipe.
    You made 3 red crosses cause nothing happened lol

    If your able over there weld plates to chassis with 1/2 unc holes in 4 corners
    then sliders can bolt to them, they were strong enough on my other 4x4 as
    jacking point, could lift whole side of 4x4 up. Plus being seperate could also use as air tanks
    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 if anyone can point me a good direction for posting pics that would be great

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    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 body mount. The U sections will each have 2x M10 8.8 bolts at the top and the front mount will have 2x M10 8.8's bolting them in place. All going well the sliders will be all painted and bolted on this weekend

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    Hey mate, your linking from photobucket isn't working for some reason.

    The URL that you copied from their site is strange as after the URL of the picture it has ?sort=3&o=0 which is not a proper prefix for showing pictures. I even tried to delete that prefix but it still didn't work.

    That's strange mate....When you are on PB you should just click on the picture and get the URL of the image and paste it in using the button.

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    Maybe this time


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    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

    Last edited by Tank; 24th May 2013 at 08:04 PM.

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