Front Bar skid plate?

[ronwest]

So, have any of you ingenious people come up with a way to prevent scraping the bottom of your front bar whilst accelerating to avoid a reversing 4wd and hitting the spoon drain faster than you'd planned, whilst visiting Bunnings?

Damn! Things only been on a week...

Anyhoo, I'm trying to work out a way of minimising future mishaps. Maybe an aluminium skid plate, shaped and rivetted on? (Downside may be that a decent scrape will tear the plate and rivets off the bar?)

Maybe a rubber strip, glued to the bottonm of the bar?

Maybe just mask the offending section and paint it flat black whenever mishaps occur?

Ideas?

[TwistedEL]

Honk your horn instead!

[Abacus]

This is where you need a sawn off sitting handy on the passenger seat. Blow out the pig's back window. That'll wake him up.

[bodes-sh]

^^^lol yeah that or something like what's in your avatar, honking the horn doesn't always work anyway because the driver might not know that they're the one being beeped at

[alpineau]

not trying to take over the thread but i would like to hear if any one has a solution to the above problem. Ive only had my kit on the car 2 months and scraped both the back and the front bar badly - bloody townsville driveways

[bodes-sh]

there's probably 2 options, 1 jack up the suspension to it has more ride height, 2 go slower/take driveways at about a 10 degree angle so it doesn't scape

[ronwest]

...it's not that low. A standard XR would have scraped at the speed I hit the drain.

I think I measured the diff between the standard ghia bar and the Brumby bar and the B bar is only around 25mm lower (maybe 30mm - can't remember).

I'm thinking that I'll mask it off and paint the underneath pan of the bar flat black (it's only underneath that scraped).

At least then it's a simple job to getting rid of tell-tale abrasions if I scrape it again.

edit: you were probably answering alpineau's post, lol.

[bodes-sh]

thats probably the best option, unfortunately there's not much that can be done to avoid scrapes apart from possibly stiffening the suspension up a bit, but then you also lose ride comfort

lol, well it was sort of directed at both posts, that's cool