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KZJ90 · *** Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 225 Location: Finland

Hi Chris

Very good looking bumper there! I like the design, did you copied it from somewhere or is this only your imagination?

And why you people there drink tea all the time, why not coffee (like us)? Wink

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Graham Stirling · *** Joined: 18 May 2007 Posts: 156 Location: Perthshire

That looks the dogs. Mind if i pinch the design?

Landcrusher · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 21:01 Post subject:

How you know that it was tea in that mug is a mystery to me. Actually I do drink coffee but only good ground coffee and not that filthy dried camel doo doo. Making fresh coffee is not quite so easy in the garage. So it tends to be tea .. Hang on what the heck are we talking about tea for???? Come on KZJ you still haven't got yourself a winch yet.

Graham, pinch all you like. It can only be improved upon. I really wanted something slightly different to this and started out with a design in mind, but sort of couldn't quite steer towards it due to the restrictions on angles and dimensions etc. It could have been more shallow if I had just had a postbox for the winch cable under the bumper instead of in the bumper.

To make it shallower, the winch could have been raised on a box - but I have it flat on top of the ends of the chassis for strength and ease of design.

I still think that there is the possibility of making a flat tray and putting the winch cable out through a standard plastic bumper.
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wildsmith · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 21:37 Post subject:

At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, looks very good LC. It's probably not a big deal but won't Mr MOT tester be unhappy with the 'sharp' edge those lights are mounted on? What you need is a mini stinger to put them on Laughing

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01 UZJ100 lifted (AHC & 40mm BL), ARB locked f&r, cryo'd 4.88's, TJM front bumper, 12k goldfish, sliders, rack, snorkel, 35's, storage, aux power etc.
93 HDJ80 sold
94 HDJ80 RIP

Landcrusher · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 21:45 Post subject:

Sorry Jon, what's a 'mini stinger'

Not a stuck record at all. I always aim to be law abiding and hadn't thought about that being a contravention really. I don't think that my MOT man will bat an eyelid. He is very thorough at MOTs but a pretty pragmatic chap.

That being said, I don't want Mr Plod getting shirty with me. not sure what I can do about it now. Maybe weld a strip across the front or mount the number plate there. I was going to have that as a sticker on the bonnet.
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wildsmith · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 22:06 Post subject:

Landcrusher · Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 22:13 Post subject:

Cheers Jon. Noted. Will have a look. Not a big solution. It could be profiled around the lights easily.

C
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