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Nick.storm

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:46 pm

I recently bought myself a pipe bender and had a go at making a front bar. Thoughts? things I could think about before making a rear bar and sliders?

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Scrawny

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:52 pm

Looks alright. Have you got photos of the mounts? How is it attached to the chassis?

Nick.storm

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 12:58 pm

ill have to go take some.. I welded tabs on so it bolts onto the existing bumper mounts and then made brackets up so it also bolts onto the nudge bar mounting points I had. figured it should be plenty strong enough as im not winching off it

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 1:42 pm

I'm just toying with ideas of building my own

Nick.storm

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 2:12 pm

Nice:) it only cost like $50! Ill try get some photos of the mounts. If you can weld and have access to a bender give it ago

DarkHorse

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 4:05 pm

Looks pretty good mate, nice and simple.

Hard to tell from the photos but are the outside corners collapsed a bit? What bender and what dies are you using?

Have a look at some of the other Vit threads for some mounting ideas - most of us whack an additional M12 or two through the nubs at the front:

hackd

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 6:54 pm

Are your bends actually crushed?

Fatzook

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Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2013 8:54 pm

Nice simple design, And well executed, but I'd have another go at the top bar if I were you. Those bends are completely collapsed, and will offer very little protection without bending further.

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Nick.storm

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Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:50 pm

Yeh the corner bends are a bit crushed. Ill have to work out how to make work better. One idea I've been given are filling the pipe with sand.. Anyone tried this? I'm just using a cheap 12T press bender. It's 2inch pipe about 3mm thick.

Ausuki

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Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 5:51 pm

i've heard sand is the go too

got_bar_work

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Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 6:14 pm

U can do more of a sweeping bend by doing a few bends 50mm apart

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Posted: Mon Jul 08, 2013 9:36 pm

The problem is the die. They are a poor fit. Buy yourself a quality Dawn die for your bender.

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VonDecoy

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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:04 am

The design looks great to me. And really simple too. I like it!

BlueSuzy

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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 12:11 pm

Looks good, Sand still won't work right

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Nick.storm

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Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:23 pm

Thanks guys. So filling it with sand won't work! I'd imagine it would be very hard to force the bend.. I looking into making a 2inch exhaust so it would be good to get the bender working well. Should be able to get away with more sweeping bends for that though I hope. Still haven't had a chance to get some photos of the way I mounted it. Works been crazy

wrboy89

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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 5:17 am

Hey bud I used sand and annealed my pipe before bending on the press bend worked not to bad if u wanna give that a crack

Matthew

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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:38 pm

Fatzook wrote:

The problem is the die. They are a poor fit. Buy yourself a quality Dawn die for your bender.

This

Nick.storm

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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:45 pm

wrboy89 wrote:

Hey bud I used sand and annealed my pipe before bending on the press bend worked not to bad if u wanna give that a crack

cool might try that

Nick.storm

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Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:48 pm

here are some pics of the way I mounted the bar

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