Thread: Tools on bonnet/guards

Originally Posted by 4bee

Is that a pre-cast Inspection Pit in your floor?

Nah, not pre-cast. My concreter formed it up with the floor. It's been very handy. I'm glad I put it in.

from a greasers point....


i do not like the tools on the wing. I have seen a configuration with both the spare and the tools on the bonnet which I do really like.

put your tools on the wing, open the bonnet and the lean over it and pretend to do the tappets on your engine.

Its fair enough IF your putting it on an actuall EX mil vehicle but if you adding them to a personal vehicle I think a little function before form is in order.


just my 2 cents.

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

...Its fair enough IF your putting it on an actuall EX mil vehicle but if you adding them to a personal vehicle I think a little function before form is in order.

But you'd have to agree it is far safer than a flying axe/mattock/shovel when going down a particularly steep hill... not too mention accessibility if you're stuck up to the axles - usually the bonnet (and top of wings) are still on top in most situations where a shovel or axe would be needed. In a shorty IT IS FUNCTION BEFORE FORM especially on a long trip where every bit of load space counts... besides, there is no space on the bonnet for tools with a 750 or 235/85 tyre on it.

If you're questioning mil/civvy issue, a lot of military mods and equipment find their way into civvy life - tried and tested so why not use it. It would be a different argument if a civvy SII was pretending to be an ex-mil - it would be like a civilian dressing up in ozcam and parading stomping his boots in Oxford Street in February...

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

I have seen a configuration with both the spare and the tools on the bonnet which I do really like.

Any chance of pics or a diagram? Haven't seen it myself.

Originally Posted by Turtle61

But you'd have to agree it is far safer than a flying axe/mattock/shovel when going down a particularly steep hill... not too mention accessibility if you're stuck up to the axles - usually the bonnet (and top of wings) are still on top in most situations where a shovel or axe would be needed. In a shorty IT IS FUNCTION BEFORE FORM especially on a long trip where every bit of load space counts... besides, there is no space on the bonnet for tools with a 750 or 235/85 tyre on it.

If you're questioning mil/civvy issue, a lot of military mods and equipment find their way into civvy life - tried and tested so why not use it. It would be a different argument if a civvy SII was pretending to be an ex-mil - it would be like a civilian dressing up in ozcam and parading stomping his boots in Oxford Street in February...

there are other places to put them in a shorty, I had a unimog tool bracket fitted to Bug 1.0 that was bolted to the 3 ribs on the slopey part of the roof

with the 7.50R16LT steel trek on the bonnet theres enough room for the shovel off to one side, the mattock head in front of it and the handle and axe off on the other side.

you need to bend the mounts a little, space out the edges and put them on backwards (IE the business end of the shovel and axe go closest to the vents to make them fit properly..

I have no problems with people doing things that get done in the military Im guilty of that myself.

BUT

my point wasnt about that it was more about the selection of the location for mounting the tools and that IMHO from a mechanics POV putting the tools on the wings gets to be painful when you have to do some of the works that turns up on engines.

If you have no other place to put them then thats fine and it fits function before form no problems. If its going onto a historic vehicle well thats where they were and thats where they belong and thats part of the function of the vehicle being a faithful replica/recreation/rebuild.

If your putting them on the wings because youve seen it before, you like the brackets and you like the idea thats the stage that I suggest you have a look at where your going to put them, The first time you wind up in the RAP with a bruised + torn abdomen after catching yourself on tool bracket bolt (the one that holds the axe and mattock is great for it) you'll curse putting them there.

Sorry outlaw, no pics it was a chance visit but I'll be doing that to fozzy IF I get a set prior to CCCCC

Hi Murray,
Can I ask where you got those tool fixings? I have been after them for ages, resigned to the fact that I will have to make my own.

Cheers, Bruce.

Hey, Bruce, this is a very old thread.
I have seen several sets go on ebay, Trading Post and Gumtree. I got my spare set on Gumtree some time ago. From WA I think.
Keep your eye out. They come up from time to time.
Also put a wanted ad here and on REMLR. I know there are a few sets about. You've just got to convince people to sell them.