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yeah right smartarse

Wow this thread has gone ballistic. good one sloth. I used timber actually i found a tree and a knife and wittled some. My hole aren't perfectly round but they do the job!

sounds like a cost effective plan to me... plenty of trees in the backyard i can cut down and use!

Mate paint em black and no one would know the difference!!!

albey wrote:Mate paint em black and no one would know the difference!!!

particularly if they are 'stacked'.

particularly if they are 'stacked'. [/quote]



Still havn't got a good reason why you think this is so wrong??

Rockmonsta wrote:particularly if they are 'stacked'.

Still havn't got a good reason why you think this is so wrong??[/quote]



If your gonna stack em' they need to be made of timber and painted black so no one can tell.

albey wrote:

Rockmonsta wrote:particularly if they are 'stacked'.

Still havn't got a good reason why you think this is so wrong??

If your gonna stack em' they need to be made of timber and painted black so no one can tell.[/quote]


They were black and stacked, but not made of wood,

Must be only one bloke who thinks, for no aparant reason, they are no good... ("thinks" might be to strong a word )

TWISTY wrote:My 2009 hilux was signed off on by Queensland Transport last week with High Density Polyethylene Blocks (NO crush tubes).

does your 2009 hilux have airbags? if so ithought its illegal in qld told by qld tpt themselves. also its illegal not to have crush tubes in anything but alloy/steel blocks. whoever signed off on that needs sacking simple as that. you might be lucky that they signed it off till you crash....insurance will rape their arse then yours

fumduk3 wrote: you might be lucky that they signed it off till you crash....insurance will rape their arse then yours

Internet fallacy #13729.

Only if the poly blocks caused the crash. The insurance company would need to demonstrate that the accident would probably have been avoided but for the poly blocks - that, had the blocks been alloy, the accident could have been avoided.

fumduk3 wrote:

TWISTY wrote:My 2009 hilux was signed off on by Queensland Transport last week with High Density Polyethylene Blocks (NO crush tubes).

does your 2009 hilux have airbags? if so ithought its illegal in qld told by qld tpt themselves. also its illegal not to have crush tubes in anything but alloy/steel blocks. whoever signed off on that needs sacking simple as that. you might be lucky that they signed it off till you crash....insurance will rape their arse then yours

Mate its all 100% legit. I provided documentation to QLD transport that the airbags were not effected, they seen this, inspected the vehicle and agreed.

From what I've heard it's been common practice for a while that high density polyethylene blocks with no crush tubes will be accepted. I think it was a member off here that ended up proving to QLD transport that crush tubes are not needed.

So much ignorance on the finer points of plastic, as with most regulations it's easier to ban something than determine what type of that something is suitable for a given application.

Then again we could always leave it to the engineers to decide if something is safe, they did afterall go to uni to learn their craft.


Oh well you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

TWISTY wrote:

fumduk3 wrote:

TWISTY wrote:My 2009 hilux was signed off on by Queensland Transport last week with High Density Polyethylene Blocks (NO crush tubes).

does your 2009 hilux have airbags? if so ithought its illegal in qld told by qld tpt themselves. also its illegal not to have crush tubes in anything but alloy/steel blocks. whoever signed off on that needs sacking simple as that. you might be lucky that they signed it off till you crash....insurance will rape their arse then yours

Mate its all 100% legit. I provided documentation to QLD transport that the airbags were not effected, they seen this, inspected the vehicle and agreed.

From what I've heard it's been common practice for a while that high density polyethylene blocks with no crush tubes will be accepted. I think it was a member off here that ended up proving to QLD transport that crush tubes are not needed.

Cool something i can do to the GU..... buy only when day when 44" boggers are legal.

also you did it the best way too- get bodylift done as one of the first mods before anything else is modded its less hassle and inspection is very quick especially on a new 4b

fumduk3 wrote:Cool something i can do to the GU..... buy only when day when 44" boggers are legal.

also you did it the best way too- get bodylift done as one of the first mods before anything else is modded its less hassle and inspection is very quick especially on a new 4b

You'll have to check out the GU's airbag system first I guess. The hilux has all of the SRS system mounted to the body, so nothing is affected.

As for quick inspection, not really, was still there for about an hour, and brake tests, steering etc. were still performed, even on a 3 month old vehicle.

-Scott- wrote:

fumduk3 wrote: you might be lucky that they signed it off till you crash....insurance will rape their arse then yours

Internet fallacy #13729.

Only if the poly blocks caused the crash. The insurance company would need to demonstrate that the accident would probably have been avoided but for the poly blocks - that, had the blocks been alloy, the accident could have been avoided.

raping arse was a figure of speech. no one wants to be raped by a fat guy in a suit holding a red pen. as long as its legit its sweet. qld tpt may hay slightly loosened their sphincters the last few years if they have its good news 4 every 1. I made alloy blocks for my 80 series a few years back, prefered doin it myself, cheaper, had lathe/tooling at work and wanted a SOLID block with no give or squash in the block itself. that LUX would be 1 of the best looking ones around. very impressive.

I used HDPE (High Density Polyethylene) on the Mav' with no crush tubes.

Interesting how Twisty's didn't need crush tubes though! Cool interesting!