DeadlyBeast wrote:Great stuff Tyler.
Thanks for sharing.
Very helpful to have these write ups for others wanting to draw inspiration.
Any thng you might do differently when you build another for goldmember? [emoji1]
Not a problem! this forum was the reason I decided to do something different and give it a crack myself. And I enjoy seeing what and how people have done things.
Overall I’m pretty happy with the end result but of coarse as always there is some things I would do differently. Mainly just due to my inexperience never having welded or painted anything before.
First of all I would have made the base of the rear bar protrude abit further away from the vehicle. One so I had abit more space to bring the hose and cables up between the stub axle and the tail light. As it gets slightly squashed when the door is open.
Two so that I could have made the door sit completely above the rear bar as at the moment it hangs over it
And three so that there is abit more space between the tail gate and the the door when it’s closed as there’s only abit 20mm at the moment. Probably enough, but if I cop a decent wack in the rear it will flex/ bend enough to hit.
I also should have worked out the latch before I decided placement of the wheel and max trax holder. I was planning on having the latch the other way around but this wouldn’t have worked because the max trax holder was in the way to open it. It only just clears now and is abit of a PITA but it does work.
So yeah I definitely should have thought that out abit more.
Also I measure and welded everything without taking into consideration the weight of the max trax holder and spare wheel.
Once loaded up the door had abit of flex and I lost the space I was going to put rubber in where the latch clamps onto the bar.
So I have to get the oxy out and heat and bent the door to gain back the clearance.
This meant the latch is now on the piss.
Again it still works but would have also changed that!
This is the rubber buffer and some pics of her open!
If anyone is interested in anything more in particular let me know and I can get some pictures or try to explain [emoji23] definitely no expert and she gets rougher the closer you look but it survived it first trip and didn’t fall apart thank god!
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