by conrod » Sun Jul 02, 2017 9:28 pm
Originally posted December 6th 2015.
Reposted here because photobucket are b*stards and have removed third party hosting unless I pay them a ransom!
SV2 was bought with the intention of becoming my new tow vehicle, to replace my LDV 400 "police van". I went and got a quote for a towbar to be made for it, and was a bit shocked at the price of $1000 (£500) so I thought, "bugger that, I will make one myself"
I really wanted a detachable towbar, so I scoured trademe (NZ version of Ebay) and found a NOS Westfalia kit for a Subaru, which was rated at 1800kgs. I bought this, and set about chopping it into small pieces. In the end I used only the gooseneck, receiver, and a section of the square crosstube. I drew up some templates on autocad for the side and centre brackets, printed them out and a bit of a test fit, then sent the drawing to the shop to have them cut out of 10mm steel plate on the waterjet.
The main side brackets needed a couple of kinks to follow the chassis rail,and then another test fit before welding, and they fitted a treat. Got my fabricator to weld them up for me, my welding is okay, but needed the skill of someone really good for this job, as failure is not an option!
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