Brett's 120

[BrettM Member Find all posts View Profile Close BrettM]

Hi Craig, I have modified Trekriders I'm sure he will buts some pics up when he gets them back from powder coating. If a few ppl wanted them I could look into it and get some figures for costs

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

So are these original brackets modified or a completely new fabrication?
Count me in if you go through with it please Brett (nice work!)

[ondaboat Coopers Pale Ale Find all posts View Profile Close ondaboat]

Howdy Brett
Good work on the rig there mate. I would be keen on at set as well. I too have an ARB non winch bar that I would like to convert as I was given a winch for free but no where to mount it. Can you put more info up once you have finished it.
Cheers Adam

[BrettM Member Find all posts View Profile Close BrettM]

Craig they ones on mine are a complete new fab using 6mm plate for the bracket and 12mm grade 360 plate for the recovery points. I will draw them up on CAD and get a price for having them cut out then go from there. Onaboat once I finish converting to bar to a winch bar I will post how it was done. Cheers Brett

[Trekrider Banned Find all posts View Profile Close Trekrider]

As Brett said, he modified my original ARB brackets by removing the original loops, strengthening the whole plate and fitting some new loops - very impressed with the job. I took them in to work and sand blasted them this morning and then dropped them off to get them Powder coated. I will get them back on Tuesday and will post pictures in my build thread then. Thanks again Brett, fantastic job

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

Craig they ones on mine are a complete new fab using 6mm plate for the bracket and 12mm grade 360 plate for the recovery points. I will draw them up on CAD and get a price for having them cut out then go from there. Onaboat once I finish converting to bar to a winch bar I will post how it was done. Cheers Brett

Cheers Brett (nice work) perhaps once you sort out the viability, to gauge the interest in these units you could start an thread "EOI - New 120 Recovery Points for ARB Bullbars". If you get enough interest, you may be able to do a bulk run to bring the costs down. It would be interesting also, to see what the cost difference would be between newly fabricated sets vs retrofitted sets. I've just put a call in to my local ARB store to find out the pricing of the ARB brackets for retrofitting. That way you could possibly do a trade in deal with buyers? Get a couple of new brackets to start off with and then do a swap over (providing all the ARB brackets are the same for all bars?)

Look forward to seeing yours too Trekky

[BrettM Member Find all posts View Profile Close BrettM]

Getting the brackets profile cut shouldn't cost to much as my sister inlaw works at a profile cutting place, once I do the CAD drawing I will give it to her and get a price for 10 sets. Fabricating from scratch I think is better as the ARB ones are only 4mm and won't be as strong as what I made. I will price the ARB brackets as well to compare prices. Will start a thread once I get cost sorted so keep an eye out next week

[BrettM Member Find all posts View Profile Close BrettM]

I was given an old ARB compressor so I decided to make up a small air tank (about 7.5 litres) which i have mounted between the chassis and the side steps, I will take some pics tomorrow of it mounted. Here it is before I mounted it.



I made a bracket to house the compressor in the engine bay behind the diesel filter, will take a pic of that tomorrow

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

Nice job on the air tank. Should consider making them for PP, certainly I would be interested. If you get enough interest in one city you could send a batch at a time to save freight.

Hazza

[Trekrider Banned Find all posts View Profile Close Trekrider]

I was given an old ARB compressor so I decided to make up a small air tank (about 7.5 litres) which i have mounted between the chassis and the side steps, I will take some pics tomorrow of it mounted. Here it is before I mounted it.



I made a bracket to house the compressor in the engine bay behind the diesel filter, will take a pic of that tomorrow

Be interesting to see those photo's when you have them.

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

Nice work, looks heavy though, are you putting it down on the chassis rails? I might put an aluminium tank in the winch space of the 150 though the twin ARB compressor is fast enough for tyres and there isn't really enough air to support tools unless the air tank is BIG.

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Looks heavy but it is only made of 100 NB SCH 10 stainless steel pipe (about 3mm thick). It was going to run along the chassis but now I have decided to put it behind the rear fuel tank along the back of the chassis. Cheers Brett

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This is where it will be mounted, the brackets holding it up will be changed to 6mm stainless tomorrow (first job at work tomorrow morning)

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

Good idea.