brynk
29th April 2011, 03:11 PM
g'day all
the need for a new front bar has become apparent. after a fair bit of research on what's available out there, it seems that short of scoring a bargain, you're looking at around $1000 bucks to get something half-decent on there... and given that the alloy bars seems to be the thing that gets replaced (instead of doing the replacing), well they don't do much to offset the cost.
i was under recently fitting the harris hardcase and happened to notice the mounting brackets for the factory alloy bar looked distinctly steel. so ol sub-conscious got to work and the next time the pathway to the fore-brain was sufficiently lubricated, a brilliant idea slid in with force enough to lodge itself in the area reserved only for the latest mad-cap scheme.
so a question - has anyone (or does anyone know of someone?) taken the factory mounting of an alloy bar and used that as the basis for a leaner, mea... eeer, kinder something that can support a winch and offer an improved angle of attack?
capabilities are cutting & welding; would be happy to direct funds into tooling up for bending & notching as well, but i have also seen those pre-bent sections in the steel shop and figure they might work out just as good.
i'm not a big fan of the air-bag at the moment (i wonder what it would take to set the bastard off) so while compliance with the airbag triggering system would be a nice side-effect, i'm not afraid to make it disappear either.
any thoughts you might have on the matter would be greatly appreciated
r's brynk
the need for a new front bar has become apparent. after a fair bit of research on what's available out there, it seems that short of scoring a bargain, you're looking at around $1000 bucks to get something half-decent on there... and given that the alloy bars seems to be the thing that gets replaced (instead of doing the replacing), well they don't do much to offset the cost.
i was under recently fitting the harris hardcase and happened to notice the mounting brackets for the factory alloy bar looked distinctly steel. so ol sub-conscious got to work and the next time the pathway to the fore-brain was sufficiently lubricated, a brilliant idea slid in with force enough to lodge itself in the area reserved only for the latest mad-cap scheme.
so a question - has anyone (or does anyone know of someone?) taken the factory mounting of an alloy bar and used that as the basis for a leaner, mea... eeer, kinder something that can support a winch and offer an improved angle of attack?
capabilities are cutting & welding; would be happy to direct funds into tooling up for bending & notching as well, but i have also seen those pre-bent sections in the steel shop and figure they might work out just as good.
i'm not a big fan of the air-bag at the moment (i wonder what it would take to set the bastard off) so while compliance with the airbag triggering system would be a nice side-effect, i'm not afraid to make it disappear either.
any thoughts you might have on the matter would be greatly appreciated
r's brynk