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Dankie, Hennie!

My vrou reken die koets het nou 'n identiteits-krisis.... Hy lyk skurf en onbeskof, maar hy ry so sag soos 'n verekussing

Dodging wrote:Dankie, Hennie!

My vrou reken die koets het nou 'n identiteits-krisis.... Hy lyk skurf en onbeskof, maar hy ry so sag soos 'n verekussing

Haha, my vrou is besig om haar sin vir humor vir my te verloor met al die bokke wat ek op ForYota blaas

Lekker onderstelle daai van Darrel

Lyk netjies, nou kan ek ook nie wag vir my mikems nie.

Vinnige vraag Andre, dink jy die standaard Gabrials agterste skokbrekers sal lank genoeg wees met die mikem leafpack? En watter leafpack het jy geneem? Ek bestel einde van die maand my vere maar het nie gebudget vir nuwe skokbrekers ook nie. My Kzte gaan 'n dryer aluminium kappie agter op hê so ek reken ek gaan die medium gewig leaf pack van mikem moet neem.

Ek het die mediums in my wa laat sit. Ons vat maar min goed saam as ons gaan kamp.

Ek dink die standaard skokbrekers mag dalk te kort wees

Stunning,so what's next on the list?
Fit front bumper.

Yip!

Hope to do so this weekend

Looking good Andre

Filled up the van on Tuesday night, and then again this morning. Was expecting a bit of a nightmare in terms of consumption since fitting the bigger wheels.

Anyways - mostly highway travel, doing between an indicated 110 and 120. Did 352km, filled up with 38.25l. This is really good in my books. I think the snorkel has quite a bit to do with this

Baie netjies! Geniet die nuwe suspensie.

Die bakkie het hom nuwe bumper op

Dodging wrote:Die bakkie het hom nuwe bumper op

Fotos!!!!!!!

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30mm body lift at least

So here's the bumper fitment tale

First, I ripped the old bumper off - that was quick and easy - 5 minute job



Van was looking a bit dirty, so I pulled out the pressure washer and gave it a bit of a clean - wasn't a massive success



Anyways, to my wife's great delight I took the bumper out of the lounge, and set about unwrapping it





This is what I was presented with when I eventually got it unwrapped





Had to modify the bracket a bit to be able to fit it over the intercooler. Kinda forgot about pics at that stage, because I knew I was going to be pressed for time. Short story long - made it all work, intercooler is sitting nice and snug inside the bumper with no chance of it or the pipes getting damaged by the bumper. Bumper is on





Thought I might as well put the spotlight back on while I'm busy



Only thing left to do is to fit the indicators. Will have to go to the hardware shop tomorrow to get what I need.

Overall I'm really happy with the bumper - really does give the van some serious attitude, plus the approach angle is now just sooo much better than what it was when I had a bullbar on. I must actually take some pics of the damage I did to that poor thing at RdW

Looks very good.

Thanks, Roger!

Can't wait to see what it looks like in daylight

Andre, dit lyk baie goed. Sit asb nog so 'n paar kikies op met meer daglig op die onderwerp:mrgreen:. Watse dikte plaat is die bumper van gemaak?

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Hy's nie buitengewoon dik nie, Louis. Die mounting bracket is 'n beer van 'n stuk staal, ek reken 4mm. Die hele kontrepsie weeg 48kg.

Dalk is my idee van dik en dun dalk maar net so bietjie af ook

Andre, die "skin" gedeelte/buitekantste dop, is dit 2 of 3 mm?

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Lyk vir my meer na 2mm

Baie netjies! Nou's daai Bosbreker reg om n paar bosse aan te durf!

Hie's 'n foto of twee in die daglig

Hi andre, net 'n vinnige vraag, hoeveel het die trippie Mikem toe jou gekos? Ek wil my bakkie ook volgende vat?

Me likes your trok Andre and well done, maybe we'll get to see you more these days?

Reinhardt - jy het n pm

Thanks Tumelo!

Hopefully I'll have things sorted at work soon, then have some free weekends for fun

Andre,she looking pretty good

Never got around to fitting those indicators... Two reasons - 1. It's not a straight fit, 2. They are a bit boring...

So after finally finding the time, I went looking for some lights that would suit my needs. Finally found something that would do - basically a dual-light running two H3 globes. One is a spotlight, the other is a fog lamp/driving light. Had to cut the bumper to make it fit, and also modified the spotlight-side to take a park-light-type-bulb instead of the H3.

The whole idea is basically to get an indicator (original is a bit hidden by the upright bar on the bumper), and lights that give some peripheral lighting. I travel on dark roads between farms daily, and several times I almost hit a stray goat. Hope this improves my chances of seeing them in time...


Will get some pics up tomorrow

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Looking good, Andre!


-F_D

Dit lyk nice

Lyk baie goed !!

Dankie, manne! Heel gelukkig met die resultaat. Werk nogal heel lekker met die nuwe ligte - kan baie meer sien so op die sypaadjie

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