gas strutts on defender bonnet? yes i have!

[discowhite]

took about 3months to think about doing this job and 30min to actually fit it:cool:

usuall story had some strutts sitting around and some alloy angle, next thing ya know presto!

cheers phil
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just have to tidy up the edges on the brackets.

[crump]

great, can you post a pic of the bottom mount??

[discowhite]

the strutt's i use have a ball joint on the end. had to drill one 5/16 hole in the inside of the wing top. only on the pass side there is a hole in the drivers side thats got a clip in it for the radiator over flow pipe bracket.

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cheers phil.

ps. one strutt will do the job but it must be around 300nm. the two i use are 150nm's each. i had bigger ones but they were to long:mad:

[Craig]

Discowhite

Thats a great idea... What length are the struts that you used?
I might have to do somthing like that myself.

Thanks

Craig

[Quiggers]

Good stuff and well done!

I'd like to do that to the Disco.

GQ

[MacMan]

You've now hexed yourself by planning to have the bonnet up so much.

[discowhite]

You've now hexed yourself by planning to have the bonnet up so much.


no its just that if it dose happen it happens in STYLE:cool:

lengths are 600 open and 480 closed. 150Nm each strutt.

cheers phil

[discowhite]

Thats a great idea...


yep but it wasnt mine;)
i read alot of mag's.

cheers phil

[Quiggers]

My bonnet is up right now - waiting for some p/steering juice - funny about that! Yep its leaking again...............

GQ

[MacMan]

no its just that if it dose happen it happens in STYLE


Let's workshop this for a minute.

You HAVE hexed yourself, but for the sake of the argument let's just think you've been extremely unlucky. Scenario is:

1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

2) Fender is now known as "flunking piece of schnitt car".

Now, if we're doing this in style.

1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

2) Fender is now known as "flunking stylish piece of schnitt car".

So there we have it. For the extra pfffft struts instead of a poo, you have a poo with sunglasses.

Was it worth the extra?

:wasntme:

[discowhite]

Let's workshop this for a minute.

You HAVE hexed yourself, but for the sake of the argument let's just think you've been extremely unlucky. Scenario is:

1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

2) Fender is now known as "flunking piece of schnitt car".

Now, if we're doing this in style.

1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

2) Fender is now known as "flunking stylish piece of schnitt car".

So there we have it. For the extra pfffft struts instead of a poo, you have a poo with sunglasses.




WTF??



Was it worth the extra?



and yes! try cost me $000000000.000
really i dont know how i can afford it??

dont let the green eyed monster get to ya!
its just a post.

cheers phil;)

[dobbo]

Let's workshop this for a minute.

You HAVE hexed yourself, but for the sake of the argument let's just think you've been extremely unlucky. Scenario is:

1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

2) Fender is now known as "flunking piece of schnitt car".

Now, if we're doing this in style.

1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

2) Fender is now known as "flunking stylish piece of schnitt car".

So there we have it. For the extra pfffft struts instead of a poo, you have a poo with sunglasses.

Was it worth the extra?

:wasntme:

Flush the stash man, it's gone bad

[MacMan]

Where is the love? T'was just a joke. :eek:

[hiline]

Where is the love? T'was just a joke. :eek:

just not a good one :D ;)

[DEFENDERZOOK]

the only thing you gotta watch is the angle the bonnet pops out of the hinges at.......
i found out the hard way.....i was holding up my bonnet pretty much where you have the strut......
and as i was doing so i must have lifted it just a bit too high.....it popped out of the hinge and tried to land on my head......

i caught it just in time.......with my hand.....not my head.....
all it was...was it just over balanced...pivoted on my hand......and the front dropped lifting the back out of the hinges.......


but its definitely a great mod.....i never thought of fitting them to the bonnet......
just to the back door.......

good work.....

[Michael2]

That's great, in an accident where the bonnet latch gives way, the bonnet can spring up as a windscreen shield. :eek:

[Discobunny]

I would say its excellent preventative maintenance:)
We all know if your bonnet is hard to keep up, or you have to work around the stand thingy that normally keeps it up, you end up having it up all the time:mad:
A bonnet that is easy to work under will never need opening, it's part of murphys law, I'm sure:twisted:
I'm currently doing the heads on the Disco, and getting reallyu p*ss*d at the bonnet stand which is in the way all the time:mad:

[JDNSW]

I would say its excellent preventative maintenance:)
We all know if your bonnet is hard to keep up, or you have to work around the stand thingy that normally keeps it up, you end up having it up all the time:mad:
A bonnet that is easy to work under will never need opening, it's part of murphys law, I'm sure:twisted:
I'm currently doing the heads on the Disco, and getting reallyu p*ss*d at the bonnet stand which is in the way all the time:mad:

For most serious work under the bonnet of a Defender you fold the bonnet back against the windscreen or remove it altogether - and it seems to me that the struts would make this more difficult.

John

[BigJon]

For most serious work under the bonnet of a Defender you fold the bonnet back against the windscreen or remove it altogether - and it seems to me that the struts would make this more difficult.

John

I was thinking the same thing, maybe they have quick release fittings at one end. I tried fitting struts to my Brumby bonnet many many years ago. They were a bit strong and mounted wrong. The bonnet wouldn't shut and just tried to fold in half! :eek:

[discowhite]

and it seems to me that the struts would make this more difficult.


nope, just undo the to little clips on the ends and pull the strutts off. nothing to unscrew/undo.



the only thing you gotta watch is the angle the bonnet pops out of the hinges at.......
i found out the hard way.....i was holding up my bonnet pretty much where you have the strut......
and as i was doing so i must have lifted it just a bit too high.....it popped out of the hinge and tried to land on my head......



arnt you a silly duffer then??
mine is at the same height as the support would usually hold the bonnet up, so no probs there:D

cheers phil

[Defender130]

Do you have the spare on the bonnet ?

[Quiggers]

I think it's a top piece of installation - and so many other cars have bonnet struts....

might just get to the wreckers a grab some from a dead falcon or such....

GQ