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Author:  Samurai81 [ Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Beefing up the ODA front bar
So I bought a front bar off Tim at ODA. It looks pretty smart but is only held on with 4 X 8 mm set screws. Our club requires minimum 4 X 12 mm HT fixings to a solid part of the frame - pretty tricky with a Zook. I also wanted recovery hooks mounted on top of the bar and the club fixing regs require the same strength engineering

So I went along and spent a day with a club friendly engineer and we fixed some of the shortcomings.
Author:  Fatzook [ Thu Nov 11, 2010 8:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Beefing up the ODA front bar
Samurai81 wrote:
So I bought a front bar off Tim at ODA. It looks pretty smart but is only held on with 4 X 8 mm set screws. Our club requires minimum 4 X 12 mm HT fixings to a solid part of the frame - pretty tricky with a Zook. I also wanted recovery hooks mounted on top of the bar and the club fixing regs require the same strength engineering

So I went along and spent a day with a club friendly engineer and we fixed some of the shortcomings.


Nice :roll:

Why not use a step drill to get the 24mm hole? Way easier than swinging off a reduction drill with 24mm drillbit 8O
Author:  Samurai81 [ Thu Nov 11, 2010 9:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Beefing up the ODA front bar
By reduction I meant a 4 step series of increasing sized drills so the the frame material didn't tear. I just stood around and held things for the engineer who is old school so probably doesn't use step drills.
Steve.
Author:  atari4x4 [ Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Beefing up the ODA front bar
Nice work Steve, looks a whole lot stronger than the original brackets. Did you get many more pics?
Author:  Samurai81 [ Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Beefing up the ODA front bar
Gus,
Got a few more photos to add but work keeps getting in the way. I'll try to get them on tonight.
Some of the final reinforcing and the finished product - painted.
Steve.
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