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nice work Mitch

great stuff mate...thanks for sharing.

Hey guys just out of curiosity has anyone who done this paid anyone to do it for them? It looks as most of you have done this work yourselves and all credit to you for doing so. I dont need to do this mod at the moment or likely any time soon but as i have no welding skills, i would need to pay somone in the future and just wanted an idea of what may cost to pay somone to do in a buisness etc? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Ben

Id expect you'd pay the hourly labour rate......

Thought I'd throw up some more photo's of the body mount trimming. This is my 2nd Hilux I've done it on, this time around I tried a little harder to try keep it looking factory. Got plenty of room to fit my 305/70/16's got over an inch clearance up there now with a 2 inch suspension lift and 2 inch body lift.

Here's what I cut out


Then bent it back and welded it back up.


Smoothed off and a lick of paint





Cheers, Mitch

So when do I bring mine around for you to do Mitch ? . . . .


I like well done . . . .

good job mate

That looks sweet as. Great job

very clean job

Very factory looking Mitch...
When you coming to Tas?? Thats 2 jobs i've got for you.. this and raise Arb bar for body lift

So can we organise some dates for Mitch's "Cross Country, Body Mount Chopping Tour 2011". I'm happy to be your event manager, you'll be starting in Kingaroy, Qld............... Commencing today

As always mate, great job. Looking like you better start a build thread for the new love in your life

Thanks fellas, I'm fairly happy with it.

From Kingaroy to Tassie on tour yep, right after I win tattslotto

Mate thats the cleanest mount chop i've ever seen. Awesome Stuff, wish i had done this haha

amitch888 wrote:Thought I'd throw up some more photo's of the body mount trimming. This is my 2nd Hilux I've done it on, this time around I tried a little harder to try keep it looking factory. Got plenty of room to fit my 305/70/16's got over an inch clearance up there now with a 2 inch suspension lift and 2 inch body lift.

Here's what I cut out


Then bent it back and welded it back up.


Smoothed off and a lick of paint





Cheers, Mitch

Hi Mitch,

Can we get a picture of the mount with the tire at it's closest? lookins liek there is room for 35" tires .

if this is cleared, what is the next obstacle for 35"?

syche wrote:if this is cleared, what is the next obstacle for 35"?

the fender/quarter panel itself. Unless you want to severely restrict your suspension travel which would defeat the purpose.

you would need to completely flatten your pinchweld and Id also suggest removing your inner fender plastic liner and making up a flatter new version of another material.

Not impossible.....I'll get round to it at some stage. will start a thread and report when I do it.

Yer I can get a photo tomorrow. At the moment I have a massive amount of room because my tyres are getting down in tread when the tyres are new there is still some room left to go bigger, maybe another inch larger but it would be a squeeze. I could easily go a taller tyre if I'm willing to go with a smaller width.

mmaaxx wrote:

syche wrote:if this is cleared, what is the next obstacle for 35"?

the fender/quarter panel itself. Unless you want to severely restrict your suspension travel which would defeat the purpose.

Or a bodylift, one or two inch

dute wrote:So when do I bring mine around for you to do Mitch ? . . . .

So will you bring the grinder and welder on the next trip Mitch we might as well do mine

I'm looking at buying a welder and once I've got some experience up I will have a go at this mod. My question is, what sort of welders did you guys use??

dute wrote:

dute wrote:So when do I bring mine around for you to do Mitch ? . . . .

So will you bring the grinder and welder on the next trip Mitch we might as well do mine

Yep

20 year old Arc that cuts out every 10 seconds