1 Crash Protections Bars - Engine and Body work Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:38 pm
floyd
Life time member
Howdy Knut haus...
Firstly, Ive been away for quite a while doing all manner of interesting things, so apologies for my absence from the forum for a while. Im certainly still a Knutter!
In the coming weeks ill be heading up to Gladstone where my younger brother is rebuilding a '74 VW combie that Ill lend a hand on - and also visiting my legendary uncles who you may recall made me that 14mm bolt thingy that I used to re-do one of the front engine mount threads which I stripped out on my rebuild....
Anyways, they have all manner of skills, tools, welders, benders etc at their disposal and Im thinking ill take the opportunity to make a fairly extensive and solid set of engine/body crash protection bars. Ive already wrecked the factory mounts used for the stock drop bars...they just dont cut it for an adventure machine that gets dropped a lot more frequently then the designers ever intended it to....
Just seeking some input from you wiseoldies gentlemen....
Things like where would be good places to mount them...? I.e. what the most suitable mounting points would be? Weather or not to use the engine mounts? Should I use the mount points on the sump at all? How can I avoid using the sump mounts? Ways to attached bars to the frame? etc
Just thought Id through it out there for you to think about while your being paid to do something else etc....
I would also like to incorporate a sump guard into the mix too....maybe rubber mounting the sump plate to the threaded holes in the sump, then solid mounting the bar system to the sump guard plate...
Open to ideas.
Cheers
Floyd
Firstly, Ive been away for quite a while doing all manner of interesting things, so apologies for my absence from the forum for a while. Im certainly still a Knutter!
In the coming weeks ill be heading up to Gladstone where my younger brother is rebuilding a '74 VW combie that Ill lend a hand on - and also visiting my legendary uncles who you may recall made me that 14mm bolt thingy that I used to re-do one of the front engine mount threads which I stripped out on my rebuild....
Anyways, they have all manner of skills, tools, welders, benders etc at their disposal and Im thinking ill take the opportunity to make a fairly extensive and solid set of engine/body crash protection bars. Ive already wrecked the factory mounts used for the stock drop bars...they just dont cut it for an adventure machine that gets dropped a lot more frequently then the designers ever intended it to....
Just seeking some input from you wise
Things like where would be good places to mount them...? I.e. what the most suitable mounting points would be? Weather or not to use the engine mounts? Should I use the mount points on the sump at all? How can I avoid using the sump mounts? Ways to attached bars to the frame? etc
Just thought Id through it out there for you to think about while your being paid to do something else etc....
I would also like to incorporate a sump guard into the mix too....maybe rubber mounting the sump plate to the threaded holes in the sump, then solid mounting the bar system to the sump guard plate...
Open to ideas.
Cheers
Floyd
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