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vl2dy4
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Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:40 am Posts: 424 Location: Australind WA
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 Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 5:58 am |
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Hi all i'm looking at getting parts from the USA what are the best online stores to use.
I am waiting on my zook to arrive and i would like to do some homework in regrds to upgrades.
Can i please make a few requests, If you make a reply in this thread please state:
1. What parts you bought
2. Cost of parts
3. Where did you buy them from (What website)
I know we should support our Aussie companies, but sometimes it is hard especially if you can get the same parts from the USA at a fraction of the price. Hell if i had enough money for things i wouldn't buy from the USA, but as you can tell i'm a bit of a tight arse.
If i have broken any rules please let me know i will rectify them asap.
Thanks
Conrad
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31zook
Joined: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 9242 Location: maito
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:05 am |
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did you buy stockman's zook?
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vl2dy4
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Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:40 am Posts: 424 Location: Australind WA
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:23 am |
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31zook wrote: did you buy stockman's zook?
Yeah mate sure did, can wait for it to get here. Whys that?
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31zook
Joined: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 9242 Location: maito
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:26 am |
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why are you doing a shopping list now? why don't you wheel it first then see what your driving and where is the best place for improvement.....
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vl2dy4
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Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:40 am Posts: 424 Location: Australind WA
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:32 am |
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31zook wrote: why are you doing a shopping list now? why don't you wheel it first then see what your driving and where is the best place for improvement.....
I wont buy anything straight away, i will spend most of my cash on wheeling for now but i was just starting this thread up to find prices of what other fellow zookers have paid for things (Research for a later date)
I will spend some cash on a front bar though, i will be driving the zook up and down from Bunbury to Collie, i want a bar cos those friggin roos are bad in the morning. in the last year i have hit a few, i would hate to ride my new zook off, and a bar would be cheap insurance.
What would be the best bar too get?
Cheers
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atari4x4
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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:30 pm Posts: 34842 Location: East Radelayed
Vehicle: SV420+SV620 Vitara's
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 6:36 am |
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ARB bars would be the best for strength & protection.
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vl2dy4
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Joined: Wed Feb 16, 2011 8:40 am Posts: 424 Location: Australind WA
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atari4x4 wrote: ARB bars would be the best for strength & protection.
Cheers mate they cost an arm and a leg (Just rang then and they quoted me $960 Supplied) though but i'm sure it would be worth it.
What about any other makes of bars for the zook?
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CairnsZook
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Joined: Tue Jul 18, 2006 11:30 pm Posts: 872 Location: West Coast
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This bloke makes some cool bars 
If he ever makes a winch version, I might get rid of my home made bar...
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shep
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 14498 Location: Here there everywhere
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atari4x4 wrote: ARB bars would be the best for strength & protection.
sierra arb bars are made of cheese.
it was bent before i chopped the bits off
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Gwagensteve
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 13007 Location: Melbourne
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shep wrote: sierra arb bars are made of cheese. it was bent before i chopped the bits off Yes, but two points here:
A) If an ARB bar is made of cheese, Sierra chassis must be, unfortunately made of whipped cream. The idea is that the bar absorbs the impact and thereby transfers less shock into the chassis. If the bar absorbed no impact, all the impact force would be transferred into the chassis, and that would likely bend it, totalling the car, or taking out the radiator ruining your day.
I'd say the bar did it's job. I assume that was an animal strike at speed?
Yes, it's easy to make a stronger bar, but you'd need to know what you were trading off to do it - a good bullbar isn't necessarily one that doesn't deform. Lets assume a more rigid bar didn't deform but broke the mounts out of the chassis and fell on the ground - not excellent either.
B) ARB only make winch bars now which are more rigid between the uprights to keep the winch stable under load.
Steve.
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atari4x4
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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:30 pm Posts: 34842 Location: East Radelayed
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yeah, but we all know you're a ruff bastard... and nothing is shep proof 
what did you hit to do that... Uluru?
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jimbo_jones
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Joined: Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 4361 Location: gong
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Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:33 am |
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atari4x4 wrote: what did you hit to do that... Uluru?
:stekky:
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ZookFan
Joined: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:19 am Posts: 3978 Location: Brisbane,samford,QLD
Vehicle: 92 Sierra Tin Top, 3 X LJ 81's
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:36 pm |
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vl2dy4 wrote: Hi all i'm looking at getting parts from the USA what are the best online stores to use.
I am waiting on my zook to arrive and i would like to do some homework in regrds to upgrades.
Can i please make a few requests, If you make a reply in this thread please state:
1. What parts you bought
2. Cost of parts
3. Where did you buy them from (What website)
I know we should support our Aussie companies, but sometimes it is hard especially if you can get the same parts from the USA at a fraction of the price. Hell if i had enough money for things i wouldn't buy from the USA, but as you can tell i'm a bit of a tight arse.
If i have broken any rules please let me know i will rectify them asap.
Thanks
Conrad
I too would like to know... apart from Lowrange 
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ZookFan
Joined: Mon Feb 14, 2011 6:19 am Posts: 3978 Location: Brisbane,samford,QLD
Vehicle: 92 Sierra Tin Top, 3 X LJ 81's
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:38 pm |
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vl2dy4 wrote: Hi all i'm looking at getting parts from the USA what are the best online stores to use.
I am waiting on my zook to arrive and i would like to do some homework in regrds to upgrades.
Can i please make a few requests, If you make a reply in this thread please state:
1. What parts you bought
2. Cost of parts
3. Where did you buy them from (What website)
I know we should support our Aussie companies, but sometimes it is hard especially if you can get the same parts from the USA at a fraction of the price. Hell if i had enough money for things i wouldn't buy from the USA, but as you can tell i'm a bit of a tight arse.
If i have broken any rules please let me know i will rectify them asap.
Thanks
Conrad
X2, there must be more that you guys have used apart from lowrange!
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christover1
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Joined: Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:30 pm Posts: 8203 Location: Melbourne
Vehicle: Pajero 91 NH 3.0 SWB
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Fatzook
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Joined: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 14977 Location: The Hills
Vehicle: Vitara, NGV
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Gwagensteve wrote:
The idea is that the bar absorbs the impact and thereby transfers less shock into the chassis. If the bar absorbed no impact, all the impact force would be transferred into the chassis, and that would likely bend it, totalling the car, or taking out the radiator ruining your day.
Steve.
Personally I'd rather bend a $50-200 SWB chassis than wreck a $900 bar.
LWB chassis is another story though 
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zooky08
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:11 pm |
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Okay I'll help the op out a bit
Lowrange all the way
2x rd88 lockers: $957 each
4.16 gears: $502 I think
Cromos: $235
Arb compressor: around $300 mark
2x diff kits: $109 each
This is all I can remember what I bout from USA
All prices included shipped to my door
Btw arb bar mounts are heaps strong
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