Birty Dastards Jeep Club
Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: PtP on March 12, 2009, 11:33:51 AM
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I know some of you will have seen this before, but I thought I’d post it here before it gets lost when I pull the JA site.
Having seen a post on another forum about fitting a CB into a TJ got me thinking one would be handy when green laneing. I liked the look of the overhead mounting bar and decided to make one!
I don’t have supplies of steel or welding equipment, just a drill and a hacksaw etc. So a quick trip to B&Q to pick up the steel: 2 metre length of 35mm x 20mm tube and a 1 metre length of 30mm x 3mm solid bar - cost: £15.19.
These pictures show what the finished bar looks like. The additional costs were a few M5 bolts and dome nuts, a can of spray paint and two M8 x 80 mm bolts for fixing the whole mounting bar in place. The total cost was just over £20.
I didn’t have to drill any holes in the Jeep to fit all this lot!
(http://http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/mmore514/tn_Wholething.jpg)
(http://http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/mmore514/tn_Corner.jpg)
I’m thinking I might move the whole rig forward a couple of inches on a steel plate to support the rig bracket as there is room and it would make it a little easier to see, but I’m not sure that this is really necessary.
(http://http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/mmore514/tn_Therig.jpg)
This pictures shows the gap between the mounting bar and the top latches which is just sufficient not to trap your fingers. The bar could have been mounted 10-15mm forward, but you would always be fiddling to work the latches.
(http://http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/mmore514/tn_fingers.jpg)
I also used a piece if the steel tube to make a mount for the aerial which is fixed in place using two of the existing bolts which hold the spare wheel carrier to the tailgate. I modified an old aerial gutter mount and fixed this to the steel tube. You could easily bend a piece of the left over flat bar for this part.
(http://http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/mmore514/tn_ArielMountcloseup.jpg)
(http://http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j272/mmore514/tn_Arielmountfull.jpg)