Thread: D1 Bullbar Availability.

Hey,

Love the build! The bar looks almost exactly the same as mine. Obviously the actual Disco bar sits out a fair way further though.

In regards to bring airbag compliant, I doubt it will be now, at least to the thinking I'd an insurance company. My reasoning being that it's now on a different vehicle than what it was designed for and it's also had some modifications.

Don't get me wrong, I still absolutely love the build. The use of a Pajero bar is pretty cool and for the cost of a couple bits of steel and some bolts. It's great, just thought I would point out the metaphorical elephant in the metaphorical room.

Chris

Oztrax, the bar may have been airbag compatiple on the poojero but not anymore since you made new mounts, the correct D1 airbag mounts have concertina brackets.
Funnily enough i picked up a similar pajero arb bar at a swapmeet for $50 not knowing what it was for, so i put it on ebay and sold it for $300 .

Yes those concertina brackets`are actually on the old bumper bar, i guess it
would be easy enough to transpose these onto chassis ends and then bolt arb bar to these, this would also mean smaller or no brackets, mind you aesthetics for grille etc would be more difficult to attain.

Although i read somewhere bullbar/airbag combos`actually require stiffness
in bar. ie stiff bar can cause bags to deploy earlier not later.

Mate of mine fitted a 2nd hand bar to his hilux (no bags) , the bar was `a hilux bar but not exact p/n match for his vin/model.
During roadworthy they gave him a hard time and were not going to pass car rego check QLD.
based on bullbar part number only.

I reckon my D1 is worth $4K, $2K for a bar i just cant justify that
(scottish genes i suppose)....


OZ

Hey oz,

Completely agree, no point spending money where its not warranted. I was just pointing it out. More so for anyone jumping on here that may not have considered it, that were thinking of doing a similar build.

Chris

Just be aware that if you have a prang your insurance may be void if you have a non compatible bar fitted.

I've been looking for a couple of weeks now, rang just about every wrecker from Mackay to Murwillimbah & no go. Some say they get theirs from Vic as there's plenty down there but freight costs are the problem

If anyone wants it, I have made a 3D model of a D1 bullbar based on old drawings (I work for TJM) that can be converted into profiles to cut and fold.

For a small fee I could be persuaded to change them all to 2d drawings...

I can also provide a program to give a CNC tube bender to form the barwork

It is a winch compatible bar with "airbag approval" the only problem you will run into is that I've used press tooling that I have access to here to mount the parker/indicators in the bar, but you could just leave them out altogether if you aren't fussed.

PM me if you're keen