Front Bar skid plate?

ronwest · 10-10-2006, 11:42 PM

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?

TwistedEL · 11-10-2006, 12:03 AM

Honk your horn instead!

Abacus · 11-10-2006, 08:09 AM

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.

bodes-sh · 11-10-2006, 01:52 PM

^^^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

alpineau · 11-10-2006, 06:49 PM

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

bodes-sh · 11-10-2006, 06:53 PM

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

ronwest · 11-10-2006, 07:05 PM

...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.

bodes-sh · 11-10-2006, 07:07 PM

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