designed your own custom bling front bar?

Post by **stumped** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:27 pm

am wanting to design and build a bar for my WT sierra... i'm looking for something to replace the factory bumper that doesn't affect my approach angle, won't get in the road of some bigger tyres, can have a recovery point or two, and can hang my loverly lightforce lights and my CB aerial off...

just wondering if anyone's got design pics of a bar they did for their fourby that i can steal ideas from, or photos they can point me to. i'm gonna go trawling thru the members section and the zook section, but any specific help would be awesome.

measurements from a zook bar would be even better if anyone's got em...

cheers!!

Post by **bigsteve** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:53 pm

Pm'd ya

Post by **chimpboy** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:11 pm

bigsteve wrote:Pm'd ya

What's this PM shit? I wanna see the answers on this thread.

Post by **RB zook** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:28 pm

yeah i would like some ideas as im gunna piss off that plastic shit.

Post by **redzook** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:37 pm

chimpboy wrote:
bigsteve wrote:Pm'd ya

What's this PM shit? I wanna see the answers on this thread.

mabey bigsteve has offered to sell him his tube bar and might not want it to be any of your buisnesness :roll:

Post by **antt** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:18 pm

here's mine that me and a mate made out of 2 inch pipe. thanks must also go to mud4b from this board, for bending the top hoop up for me :armsup:

Post by **RB zook** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:26 pm

good effort. i like the bar on david bohm's hilux the snake racing one.

Post by **hypo** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:36 pm

i made mine with some help from A1Mav,
i know its not a zook but u get the idea.

basically i used a TJM winch mount and beefed it up and then put a gq highmount cradle on top of it then tied the tube into it heres a few pix

Post by **RB zook** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:39 pm

the bar he had on a1 zook was sweet i want one. would i be able to pick up a tjm bar or sumthin like that from a wreckers and make it like a1 zook

Post by **hypo** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:46 pm

finished

Post by **hypo** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:47 pm

RB zook wrote:the bar he had on a1 zook was sweet i want one. would i be able to pick up a tjm bar or sumthin like that from a wreckers and make it like a1 zook

alzook's was SH!T !!!!!!!!

na seriously it was a nice looking bar u wood have 2 ask him bout it....

if u dont know his new user name is A1MAV :roll:

Post by **RB zook** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:51 pm

yeah i probably should

Post by **ShortyMQ** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:29 pm

This is mine

Post by A1 » Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:45 pm

Some1 mentioned A1ZOOOK

(FREDS HILL OUTERLIMTS TRIP) and the famous Porters :cool:

Post by **RB zook** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:48 pm

A1MAV wrote:Some1 mentioned A1ZOOOK (FREDS HILL OUTERLIMTS TRIP) and the famous Porters

yeah i have studied those pics hehe

Post by A1 » Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:49 pm

AND THE MAV

Post by **RB zook** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:51 pm

yeah it is so sweet :lol:

especially on 37's

Post by **hypo** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:29 pm

a1zook on 37'z :armsup:

Post by **Bluey** » Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:33 pm

ive been looking into new bar for my cruiser. like this one, cheezy bar for gq. looks :twisted:

Post by **stumped** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:47 am

thanks guys, that's heaps good... keep em coming...

i especially like the "yeah, i wanna do that too" replies, very helpful

Post by **PRZOOK** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:00 pm

decided to do the same with my car, just havn't been stuff to start. I did how ever go to a mates place and rip his bar off his hilux, and sat it on my Grand Vitara. Could have almost bolted it on.

Post by **grimbo** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:27 pm

heres a couple of nice one built by a guy in our club

Post by **spazbot** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:36 pm

PRZOOK wrote:decided to do the same with my car, just havn't been stuff to start. I did how ever go to a mates place and rip his bar off his hilux, and sat it on my Grand Vitara. Could have almost bolted it on.

Man Zols bar on your car looks sweet as , do it!!!! then just trim away any low hanging metal

Post by **antt** » Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:28 pm

grimbo wrote:heres a couple of nice one built by a guy in our club

what tyres are on that thing grimbo? are they those 7.50X16 or whatever it is size?

Post by **grimbo** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:16 am

yea they are the 7.00 x 16 Firestone SATs. Brilliant cheap tyre that are almost impossible to find. they are the Scanas tyres of our club. I had them from nw for about 4 years, then Paul in the red coily had them for a couple now Christover has them getting towards the end of their life but pretty good for $120 a tyre. Great offroad not too bad on road

Post by **PRZOOK** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:10 am

spazbot wrote:Man Zols bar on your car looks sweet as , do it!!!! then just trim away any low hanging metal

Only thing that hangs down is some plastic crap which would be quick to go, but it opens up the wheel well where the air intake is, meaning I might just have to make up a snorkel for it too to stop me injesting water.

Was quite surprised how well the bar fitted. Never thought the Gv would be almost as wide as a hilux. I should really start getting into this project. Got the pipe bender, and a cheap pipe supplier, so only thing stopping me really is time.

Post by **antt** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:59 pm

grimbo wrote:yea they are the 7.00 x 16 Firestone SATs. Brilliant cheap tyre that are almost impossible to find. they are the ***** tyres of our club. I had them from nw for about 4 years, then Paul in the red coily had them for a couple now Christover has them getting towards the end of their life but pretty good for $120 a tyre. Great offroad not too bad on road

if you squint really hard, they almost lock like swaper tsl's

Post by **Mad Cruiser** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:53 pm

Bloody hijackers ! :finger:

Post by **Webbie** » Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:35 pm

heres one i had :lol:

Post by **chimpboy** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:58 pm

Okay, on the theme of custom front bars.

I want to make a nice sturdy one for the Maverick. Something I am trying to suss out is how much space I would need to leave so I have the option, in the future, of a highmount winch.

What kind of area on top of the bar would it take? How far apart would the main vertical bars need to be? Etc.

Cheers,

Jason

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