Kamar rear bar

Submitted: Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 19:23

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stefan P (Penrith NSW)

Evening all,

I have a Kamar bar on my Patrol which was on it when I bought it.
But it is the standard bar with out the bits at the end to put wheel carriers on it.

Has anybody here modified a stardard bar before? I think it would be possible for a metal fabricator to drill holes and weld some pipe in??

Other wise I am just lugging the heavy steel bar around for nothing.

Kamar were no help, they only wanted to sell me a new bar.

Cheers Stefan

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Reply By: Wayne (NSW) - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 19:36

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 19:36

stefan,

It can and I can do it.

Not that hard.

Wayne

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Follow Up By: stefan P (Penrith NSW) - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 22:35

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 22:35

As per follow up 3 to reply 2....aren't experiments FREE!! LOL

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Follow Up By: Wayne (NSW) - Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 07:03

Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 07:03

stefan,

It is not exactly an experiment. I think that they call it R&D, and you know how much that cost.

MM me

Wayne

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Reply By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 19:39

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 19:39

The wheel carriers are on axle stubs I think...

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Follow Up By: Wayne (NSW) - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 19:46

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 19:46

Andrew,

Now you have told him how to do the modification.

Wayne

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Follow Up By: Andrew from Vivid Adventures - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:01

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:01

Yeah, well I didn't see your response when I entered mine... sorry to do you outa buziness.

See you in the bush
Andrew.

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Follow Up By: Wayne (NSW) - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:10

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:10

Andrew,

Not doing me out of business yet. :-))

I made the modification to the rear bar that I had on the 80Series. Converted a single to a dual wheel carrier.

With the Troopie I made the rear bar and dual wheel carrier. I am thinking about doing this a side line and Stefan's vehicle would be good to experiment on. It is a Nissan after all and I could not make it any worse off. :-))

Wayne

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Follow Up By: KiwiAngler - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:20

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:20

Wayne

You are a BAD man :-) :-)

Merry Xmas mate

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Follow Up By: stefan P (Penrith NSW) - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 22:33

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 22:33

We will have to talk Wayne :)

Cheers Stefan

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Reply By: Member - Glenn D (NSW) - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:21

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 20:21

There is a caravan supply / camping store near me and they have a wide range of stub axels.

I am lead to believe the Kamar ones use HQ Holden ones? but if you are going down this road you woud probably be wanting to build your own swing arms , just got a quote for OL ones at $700 each ( I only know this cause I have just been out bid on an OL rear bar on eBay , was $460 all week and I got outbid by $10 in the last 5sec , damn Austion Sniper! bar new is $1700 )

Like they said gat stub axels welded in and you are good to go.

Glenn.

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Follow Up By: Peter 2 - Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 22:24

Friday, Dec 21, 2007 at 22:24

Getting stub axles is the easy part, sourcing the hub to weld the arm to is very hard. You can't use a trailer hub as they are too big and are cast which makes them hard to weld to.
I managed to buy one and then had a machinist make me up some more. From memory I had to get ten made to get the cost down to something reasonable.
Basically you need a 75mm diameter piece of mild steel with the centre machined the same as a trailer hub to take the bearings, seal and cap.

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Follow Up By: Member - Glenn D (NSW) - Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 21:12

Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 21:12

Still alot less than $700 each , then you just weld up your own arms !

Glenn.

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Follow Up By: Wayne (NSW) - Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 21:33

Saturday, Dec 22, 2007 at 21:33

Glenn,

I have had weld splatter go down the inside of my boots and that really hurts.

Welding you own arms would have to bring a tear to your eye. :-))

Wayne

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