Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Ok...so as some of you may know, I bought Aquarangie's 87 classic a little over a year ago. It came with a 2" lift, 40mm body lift, 33" Silverstones, a custom bull bar, winch and a few other goodies here and there. I named him Bob - Blue old Bomb

When I bought it I was planning on running 35" Creepies so I set about doing a toy conversion on the diffs and bought some RoverTracks chromo axels front and rear with longfield 30 spline CVs. This is how Bob looked when I re-registered him with the 33" Silverstones...



Then I got a great deal on 37" Creepies and put in a 3" lift from Zordo's using Lovells springs and shocks. I also added some 25nb tube to the sliders that were already there and this is how it looked...





So that was all good and I was happy with that...for a time. Then time came to do a bit of cosmetic work to the front end. I had smashed the passenger side indicator and figured it would be easier just to tube the front end instead of replacing the broken bit . So I went up to my good mate, Nottie's place for a weekend and we started making Bob look a bit better...

Off came the front guards, headlight assemblies, grill, and anything else that was deemed to be in the road. Pardon the quality of the pics - these are from my phone



The battery trays got trimmed a little and the bullbar also copped some love from the angle grinder



Then we started bending up some tube and after a few trial runs, decided on these lines...





A few hours later, and after some sleep in the shed in our swags, this is how Bob emerged from the shed at Nottie Enterprises This pic is bad quality...sorry





I will get some better pics today with my camera and post them up.

A big to Nottie for the use of his shed and tools and for all of his help.

WOW - looks great

How happy will the qld roads authority be with that?

hey...nice roof racks!

looks great...Did you reuse your original headlights?

I miss my old Rangie.

Cheers
Andrew

TRobbo wrote:WOW - looks great

How happy will the qld roads authority be with that?

Yeah not real sure...but then again I have indicators, parkers and the tyres are more than covered by the tube work.

86MUD wrote:hey...nice roof racks!

looks great...Did you reuse your original headlights?

I miss my old Rangie.

Cheers
Andrew

Hey Andrew...that is actually the first time that I have used the roof racks. I forgot all about them and I was wondering how I was going to get the lengths of tube up to Nottie's...then I looked in my shed and saw the roof racks hiding in the corner.

We did re-use the factory headlights. They are next on the list of upgrades.

Ok..here are some much better quality shots from my camera this morning...












I'm going to be adding another indicator on the sides to try to comply more with road rules.

How did you graph in the tube to the A pillar?

Cheers
Andrew

There's another piece of steampipe that is mounted to the sliders that will eventually form the rest of the tube work for the internal/external cage later on.

In the pic with the Corona bottle you can just see it behind the tyre.

Looks good, knew I sold the Rangie to the right bloke

See my roof and gutter siliconed flares are still holding on plus my dodgy wiring

Trav

Great work looks the goods but does it comply with qld trans? Dont the front guards have to be in place and the whels covered? they coming down on us lately ( or is it just me lol ). i love the rangies n would buy one in a flash, good luck with it, hope to see it out there someday

Aquarangie wrote:Looks good, knew I sold the Rangie to the right bloke

See my roof and gutter siliconed flares are still holding on plus my dodgy wiring

Trav

Don't get me started on the wiring, Trav

J/K...Its going along just fine.

the_fatman wrote:Great work looks the goods but does it comply with qld trans? Dont the front guards have to be in place and the whels covered? they coming down on us lately ( or is it just me lol ). i love the rangies n would buy one in a flash, good luck with it, hope to see it out there someday

From a top view of the car you can't see any of the tyres, so that concern is a non issue. But I am not quite sure about the amount of tyre showing in the front profile. I don't think there is much more than say a Hummer or a lifted Hilux with a tubed front bar.

Time will tell. And I'm guessing the 37s will be more of a concern than the amount of panels left.

That is a farken sic job Micka!!!!

That looks awesome

Cheers guys

But a lot of the credit has to go to Nottie Enterprises. He put up with my shit all weekend and making him undo and re-do parts of it a couple of times.

ah good work gents, can't really remember what it looked like on sat night

but i think the extra indicator is a must, i can't remember the angle but it has to be seen from a certain angle side on.

Micka wrote:Cheers guys

But a lot of the credit has to go to Nottie Enterprises. He put up with my shit all weekend and making him undo and re-do parts of it a couple of times.

yes i feel sorry for poor nottie

only thing i can see the bacon saying is that they cant see the blinker from side on, so id say mount one in the rear of the guard, so you have all angles covered.

looks interesting

Yeah there will be a side Blinker fitted to it. Same as the front one i think??
As far as transport goes you can get raped if you remove the inner guard. Outer guard i think we are pretty covered .
Also alot of the bracing and such is all in place for more future tube work
If we didnt want to cut the battery box underside then there is a way to drop the lower tube piece so it covers the underside of the full battery box.
Micka or myself does have pics of how i first run the lines of it somewhere.
If we cant find them then you will have to wait till my Reggie is done as the tube will be like i first had Mickas.

Yeah the roof and gutter silicone trav was such an awsome idea
Untill you want to get the farkers off

Cheers Nottie

Looks great. Good job fellas!

nottie wrote: Yeah the roof and gutter silicone trav was such an awsome idea

Untill you want to get the farkers off
Cheers Nottie

That was the idea, the flares never got ripped off after that. I had then come off a couple of times on trips hence the silicon and more tek screws

Trav

thats hot.

i think it looks crap

Bollody hell mate - you sure look fugly with a shaved head...


Apart from that - love your work.

Well its been a little while coming...but poor old BOB copped some tube in his rear.
















No...not like that, you dirty bastards















Like this...









This pic was taken yesterday at Ormeau during the shoot for 4WDCustom Mag.

jizzz!

Looks good, nice tubework too

At least you don't have to worry about those bloody tailights anymore being hammerd on offending rocks (I smashed a couple when I owned BOB hence the light guards ). I see my dodgy brothers rear bar got the flick, wasn't the most appealing fabrication work I've done but it did the job

Guess I'll have to watch for the next 4WD custom mag in a few months.

Trav

Yeah that's why I tubed it Trav...I busted the left rear lights goin up the bumcrack

Micka wrote:Yeah that's why I tubed it Trav...I busted the left rear lights goin up the bumcrack

Bugger All sorted now, problem solved

I have plenty of spare sets when I do break them (haven't done on for a while touch wood ).

Trav

Aquarangie wrote:

Micka wrote:Yeah that's why I tubed it Trav...I busted the left rear lights goin up the bumcrack

Bugger All sorted now, problem solved

I have plenty of spare sets when I do break them (haven't done on for a while touch wood ).

Trav

boyaaa! You should never have mentioned that