custom rear bar

Hi, yes they are cheap and easy to make, I am a boilermaker and i build custom front and back bars and side steps/rails. They can be built so cheap and strong I can build a back bar for around $150 - $200. I can give you more info if your interested.

Mate of mine built one for a Landrover 110. He used a piece of caravan chassis for the main member. He took careful measurements and spent some time in his shed with a welder. He had it galvanised and then painted it. It looked great, worked brilliantly and cost about $80.

Duncs

John I've made (or helped make) 3 rear bars now. If you have access to a Mig & a well equipped workshop you could build one yourself, fully powdercoated for $600 to $1000 depending on the type of car & what you swing off it. The 2nd option is to roughly design it yourself pinching a few ideas off other rear bars then have an enginneering workshop weld up a custom bar for under $2000.
It is time consuming building a one off bar without jigs as you need to take the car off the road for a week while you make the brackets, then line up panels etc, removing it each time welding & grinding takes place.
Finding decent overcentre latches & incorporating standard mudflaps is hard & if you build in a tow bar it wont be "rated" with an engineers certificate as it probably should.
At the end of construction you will realize why they cost $3K :-)
Cheers Craig................

John,

I made the one on the back of the Troopie. It was on the 75Series and then transfered to the 78Series.

The rear bar on the Troopie is not that flash so a length of 5mm steel was bent at a right angle.
End plates were welded on each end and two brackets were made to fit the out side of the chassis rail.
There is a cut out in the middle to allow the original tow bar to be used.
Holden stub axle were used as well as the hubs.
Two arms were made to carry the tyres. This is the important bit. They must be strong to carry the weight of the tyre and handle the corrugations.
Tail lights fitted.
The over centre latches I had brought but they didn't last. I have now made my own.
This is a dual wheel carrier so there is a bit of weight involved.

This rear bar has done the Canning twice, The Simpson 3 times and several Vic High Country trips.

Most of the work was done at home but I did get a mate to bend the steel for me, the steel tubing was cut at work, but I could have done that at home as well.

Cost about $250/ $300. and a few weekends work.

Wayne

I would say only suckers pay $3k for 100 worth of steel.. then some people dont have access to places that manufacture these things, but a quick post on any one of the 23982304920984230498320498203948 4wd forums will find someone who will make one for u.