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designed your own custom bling front bar?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:27 pm
by stumped
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!!
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 4:53 pm
by bigsteve
Pm'd ya
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:11 pm
by chimpboy
bigsteve wrote:Pm'd ya
What's this PM shit? I wanna see the answers on this thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:28 pm
by RB zook
yeah i would like some ideas as im gunna piss off that plastic shit.
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 5:37 pm
by redzook
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
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:18 pm
by antt
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
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:26 pm
by RB zook
good effort. i like the bar on david bohm's hilux the snake racing one.
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:36 pm
by hypo
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
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:39 pm
by RB zook
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
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:46 pm
by hypo
finished
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:47 pm
by hypo
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
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:51 pm
by RB zook
yeah i probably should
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:29 pm
by ShortyMQ
This is mine
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:45 pm
by A1
Some1 mentioned A1ZOOOK
(FREDS HILL OUTERLIMTS TRIP) and the famous Porters
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:48 pm
by RB zook
A1MAV wrote:Some1 mentioned A1ZOOOK
(FREDS HILL OUTERLIMTS TRIP) and the famous Porters
yeah i have studied those pics hehe
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:49 pm
by A1
AND THE MAV
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 8:51 pm
by RB zook
yeah it is so sweet
especially on 37's
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:29 pm
by hypo
a1zook on 37'z
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 10:33 pm
by Bluey
ive been looking into new bar for my cruiser. like this one, cheezy bar for gq. looks
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 7:47 am
by stumped
thanks guys, that's heaps good... keep em coming...
i especially like the "yeah, i wanna do that too" replies, very helpful
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:00 pm
by PRZOOK
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:27 pm
by grimbo
heres a couple of nice one built by a guy in our club
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 4:36 pm
by spazbot
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
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2004 10:28 pm
by antt
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?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 8:16 am
by grimbo
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
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 10:10 am
by PRZOOK
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 2:59 pm
by antt
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
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 6:53 pm
by Mad Cruiser
Bloody hijackers !
bars
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2004 11:35 pm
by Webbie
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 9:58 pm
by chimpboy
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