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10-10-2006, 11:42 PM | #1 | ||
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So, have any of you ingenious people come up with a way to prevent scraping the bottom of your front bar whilst accelerating to avoid a reversing 4wd and hitting the spoon drain faster than you'd planned, whilst visiting Bunnings?
Damn! Things only been on a week... Anyhoo, I'm trying to work out a way of minimising future mishaps. Maybe an aluminium skid plate, shaped and rivetted on? (Downside may be that a decent scrape will tear the plate and rivets off the bar?) Maybe a rubber strip, glued to the bottonm of the bar? Maybe just mask the offending section and paint it flat black whenever mishaps occur? Ideas? |
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11-10-2006, 12:03 AM | #2 | ||
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Honk your horn instead!
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11-10-2006, 08:09 AM | #3 | ||
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This is where you need a sawn off sitting handy on the passenger seat. Blow out the pig's back window. That'll wake him up.
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11-10-2006, 01:52 PM | #4 | ||
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^^^lol yeah that or something like what's in your avatar, honking the horn doesn't always work anyway because the driver might not know that they're the one being beeped at
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11-10-2006, 06:49 PM | #5 | ||
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not trying to take over the thread but i would like to hear if any one has a solution to the above problem. Ive only had my kit on the car 2 months and scraped both the back and the front bar badly - bloody townsville driveways
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11-10-2006, 06:53 PM | #6 | ||
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there's probably 2 options, 1 jack up the suspension to it has more ride height, 2 go slower/take driveways at about a 10 degree angle so it doesn't scape
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11-10-2006, 07:05 PM | #7 | ||
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...it's not that low. A standard XR would have scraped at the speed I hit the drain.
I think I measured the diff between the standard ghia bar and the Brumby bar and the B bar is only around 25mm lower (maybe 30mm - can't remember). I'm thinking that I'll mask it off and paint the underneath pan of the bar flat black (it's only underneath that scraped). At least then it's a simple job to getting rid of tell-tale abrasions if I scrape it again. edit: you were probably answering alpineau's post, lol. |
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11-10-2006, 07:07 PM | #8 | ||
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thats probably the best option, unfortunately there's not much that can be done to avoid scrapes apart from possibly stiffening the suspension up a bit, but then you also lose ride comfort
lol, well it was sort of directed at both posts, that's cool |
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