Silver is a Mav and wears the alloy bar that many of them seem to have from factory.
The cow catcher bar at the bottom has copped a bit of a pounding.
Since the front has gone up a couple of inches due to a spring swap, I finally got motivated to do something about it, and made arrangements with Bigrig and Macca86 to use Bigrig's space, and Macca86's welding skills.
As fitted, the bar could go up 36mm before hitting any sheet metal. We chose 30mm to allow some clearance.
The bar is mounted to two large steel ts, that are bolted to the chassis rails, and to a pad inside the main hori2ontal part of the bar - one each side.
the vertical part of the t was cut from top of the T, moved down 30mm and welded back on.
The bar and brackets went back in perfectly - and exactly in the planned location.
Bigrig, Benny Boy, thanks for getting into it with suggestions and grinders, and spanners in and out. Macca86, thanks for your advice and for those beautiful welds. Dhuck thanks for the words of encouragement and for sharing some father's day beef jerky. Yum.
I'm really grateful for all you did today A credit to yourselves, and a very positive reflection of what this forum is all about. You meet the best people here :-)
Thanks again,
Rick (PS, loverly wife very impressed, too)
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