Making ARB non-winch bar into a winch bar?

[shodown Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shodown]

Hi All,

I bought a 150 GX with an ARB non-winch bar. Being a tight ass - I'd rather not fork out for another bar and have to sell mine etc. Does anyone have any experience/knowledge in regards to converting an ARB non-winch bar?

I found this on ebay ad have read people doing it with the Sovereign bars......

Cheers,
Kevin

[D4D Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close D4D]

Back in the old days of the single pan design you could achieve this pretty easily. Now with the double pan design it is a lot harder. You'd probably also void the airbag compliance of the bar too. I'd look for a 2nd hand winch bar and swap them over.

[hulbyw Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close hulbyw]

Agree with D4D. Such a conversion definitely voids the airbag compliance. With a Sovereign bar, all you need is a winch cradle from Toyota which is designed to maintain the airbag compliance of the Sovereign bar. You could probably get a non ARB winch bar (Ironman, Tigerz etc) and sell the ARB bar with little difference in cost.

Cheers

[shodown Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close shodown]

Hi All,

Further to this post, I think I remember someone posting about Ironman 150 bars warping? Anyone have any experience/knowledge of this?

Also, if I were to replace the ARB non-winch bar with an Ironman, does anyone know if the cut-out templates are the same?

Obviously wouldnt want massive gaps if I did swap over bars.

Kevin

[birdie001 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close birdie001]

ARB Bar Conversion

Hi Guys,

Saw this thread a while ago and got a mate and myself thinking if it could be done. He actually found a prado that had the bar conversion recently completed by a engineering shop in Rocky. after a few measurement and pictures the conversion wasn't that hard to complete. He did his over a week end in the shed and mine was a week later.

Nothing like a few beers and a weekend in the shed.





Cheers

Birdie

[BiLLz0r Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close BiLLz0r]

Wrong thread, nothing to see here.