V8 county ute

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by fitzy

The bull bar was an arb, until I clipped a tree at Bindaree and bent it a tad.
So chopped off the uprights and got some 50 cds bent up. It's in its third incarnation on the ute now.
But in all seriousness it had a few bends in the chassis, I mistakenly let the reg run out, and it was just too hard to get an old broken half race car issued with a rwc, so I kept the drive train and sold off most of the rest.

---

Thanks Fitzy,

Mine looks so similar but it ain't related. Re reg these days................[bigwhistle][bigwhistle][bigwhistle]

cheers, DL

I made some circles out of some roof material to mount the rear lights
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/129.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/130.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/131.jpg
Also sikaflexed and riveted the storage box outer skin back onhttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/132.jpg

There was a bit of rust to deal with.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/125.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/126.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/127.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/128.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/184.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/185.jpg

Tie down rails
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/186.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/187.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/188.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/189.jpg

The design of the 110/Defender rear crossmember is pretty ordinary.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by rar110

The design of the 110/Defender rear crossmember is pretty ordinary.

---

It's another one of those things where I have to stop myself from doing to much and opening those cans with the wiggly things in them.
I was looking at building a new one but a patch will have to do for now.
It's the only rust in a 32 year old chassis, and was caused by build up of mud and not being washed out .

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/205.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/206.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/207.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/208.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/209.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/210.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/211.jpg

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/212.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/213.jpghttps://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...017/08/214.jpg
I've clocked the tie down rails to cover the tyres.
It's legally compliant, keeps the tray width nice and narrow and won't let the rear tyre grab on a tree when in really tight stuff

Love the design of your tie down rails - super smart - out of the way and mini slider/wheel arch all in one. Nice work!

Need to do the same out our rangie ute tray

Skiboy