ARB bar shaking

[RutHunter Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RutHunter]

If you try and move your bar by pulling pushing it with your hand you will not be able to and it will feel solid which it is. But if you wack or jar it with your hand you will see it vibrate. That is what you are seeing when it shakes. Just make sure you have good mounts for your spot lights, I had to buy new ones because mine cracked, but this time I added rubber in between the mounts and the bar. Have had no issues since.

[Waverunner1 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Waverunner1]

i have the arb winch bar on my 05 v6 gxl and though she feels well mounted shes definately a shaker. im not concerned. steddy eddie would feel right at home

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

My vehicle has the ARB deluxe bar with a winch. When driving it shakes around a lot. If I grab hold of the bar and try to move it, it feels very solidly mounted and I can't move it much at all. Then I drive again and it shakes around.

What sorcery is this???

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My vehicle has the ARB deluxe bar with a winch. When driving it shakes around a lot. If I grab hold of the bar and try to move it, it feels very solidly mounted and I can't move it much at all. Then I drive again and it shakes around.

What sorcery is this???

This has been covered extensively in the past.

As an experiment, take note of the gap between the bar and your bodywork. Now drive one wheel up a gutter, then check the gaps again. The gap will narrow on the corner where the wheel is up the gutter. This is why your bar appears to move. You are sitting in the body of the Prado and therefore, your eyes are noting everything else relative to the body of the Prado. The bullbar is not attached to the body. But the body is attached to the chassis via rubber blocks.

So the body is moving relative to the chassis. Therefore, it looks like the bar is shaking under some sort of a spell.

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

This has been covered extensively in the past.

As an experiment, take note of the gap between the bar and your bodywork. Now drive one wheel up a gutter, then check the gaps again. The gap will narrow on the corner where the wheel is up the gutter. This is why your bar appears to move. You are sitting in the body of the Prado and therefore, your eyes are noting everything else relative to the body of the Prado. The bullbar is not attached to the body. But the body is attached to the chassis via rubber blocks.

So the body is moving relative to the chassis. Therefore, it looks like the bar is shaking under some sort of a spell.

Hmmmmm......still sounds like sorcery...

[RutHunter Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RutHunter]

This has been covered extensively in the past.

As an experiment, take note of the gap between the bar and your bodywork. Now drive one wheel up a gutter, then check the gaps again. The gap will narrow on the corner where the wheel is up the gutter. This is why your bar appears to move. You are sitting in the body of the Prado and therefore, your eyes are noting everything else relative to the body of the Prado. The bullbar is not attached to the body. But the body is attached to the chassis via rubber blocks.

So the body is moving relative to the chassis. Therefore, it looks like the bar is shaking under some sort of a spell.

If this is true how come when I attach my camera to the bullbar is shakes like hell and I can't get a proper picture, and when I attach it to the body it is steady????????
If it was the body we would feel it through our arse and we would all sell our prados.

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The rubber blocks absorbs the vibrations from the chassis into the body.
The bullbar is also quite a way out from the mounting points on the chassis. So any small movement gets exaggerated by the time it reaches the front/top of the bullbar.

[RutHunter Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close RutHunter]

yes this would make sense, and to what I said earlier about jaring it with your hand causing it to shake. Lucky it is not the body otherwise cars with bullbars would only get used in Mardi gras.

[signsmith12 Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close signsmith12]

Bull Bar Aloy or steel

Hi All, Today I ordered an ARB steel Bull Bar for my Prado (I think it's a 90 series - 2002 model with flared attachments to the mudguards?- Apologies for my ignorance here - I am new to the 4x4 game).

Anyway, I have been torn between getting the Toyota genuine bull bar or the ARB steel. Now I read it (ARB) apparently shakes.

Do the alloy Toyota bars shake?

Have I made the right decision?

signed: nervous novice

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

Hi All, Today I ordered an ARB steel Bull Bar for my Prado (I think it's a 90 series - 2002 model with flared attachments to the mudguards?- Apologies for my ignorance here - I am new to the 4x4 game).

Anyway, I have been torn between getting the Toyota genuine bull bar or the ARB steel. Now I read it (ARB) apparently shakes.

Do the alloy Toyota bars shake?

Have I made the right decision?

signed: nervous novice

They all shake, its not an ARB thing at all. My Toyota bar I used to have was the same as my current ARB one. Its just the body and the chassis moving independently of each other that makes it look bad.

Cheers Andrew

[Bushbasher Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Bushbasher]

I was using the kangaroo jack on the stock Toyota black steel roo bar on my work troopy 4WD whilst demonstrating to my students the correct use of the jack. On each pump of the jack handle the antenna mounting point on the bar almost kisses the front edge of the bonnet before springing back again. So, as AJ and others have said, they all do it to some degree. And it hasn't fallen off yet, I've tried.

[Tony.P Lurker Find all posts View Profile Close Tony.P]

I have just had a ARB Winch bar fitted to my 120, it shakes a little bit as well.

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I think the stock alloy bar shakes more than the ARB..