Towbars

1
I have moved house (don't ask!) and have been off the air for a few
weeks.

I have need of a towbar for the Syncro and the only commercially
available bar is about the worst design one could imagine. It is so
illogical that I can't understand why they ever did it that way.
The T3 has a perfectly good set of mounting points available, and
that is where the original bumper mounts to the body rails. (The
Telecom Syncros used the same points and this was a very sturdy bar.)

I designed a towbar that mounts from those points and permits the
original bumper to be used. In my case, I have the Trakka
conversion which came with a deep aluminium bumper, so I continue to
use it.

I have posted a set of pics of the new bar. If anyone wants to have
one built, I will send them the drawings. This cost about $300 for
material, machining and assembly, and the galvanizing cost $75. For
$375, I have a towbar whose fail load at the weakest point is above
ten tonnes.

Les Harris
Australian Syncronauts
2
To make the towbar even better you could extend the two mounting
brackets about another 300mm to the next set of mounting holes
further up the chassis. This is what the factory 2 tonne towbars use.


--- In Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com, "Leslie C E Harris"
<leslieharris@o...> wrote:
>
> I have moved house (don't ask!) and have been off the air for a few
> weeks.
>
> I have need of a towbar for the Syncro and the only commercially
> available bar is about the worst design one could imagine. It is
so
> illogical that I can't understand why they ever did it that way.
> The T3 has a perfectly good set of mounting points available, and
> that is where the original bumper mounts to the body rails. (The
> Telecom Syncros used the same points and this was a very sturdy
bar.)
>
> I designed a towbar that mounts from those points and permits the
> original bumper to be used. In my case, I have the Trakka
> conversion which came with a deep aluminium bumper, so I continue
to
> use it.
>
> I have posted a set of pics of the new bar. If anyone wants to
have
> one built, I will send them the drawings. This cost about $300 for
> material, machining and assembly, and the galvanizing cost $75.
For
> $375, I have a towbar whose fail load at the weakest point is above
> ten tonnes.
>
> Les Harris
> Australian Syncronauts
3

Hi Les…   I would very much like to see your drawings…if you could put them on the site it would be great.

Regards..

 

Ken Tyler

-----Original Message-----
From: Leslie C E Harris [mailto:leslieharris@optushome.com.au]
Sent: Friday, 29 October 2004 6:57 AM
To: Syncro_T3_Australia@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Syncro_T3_Australia] Towbars

 


I have moved house (don't ask!) and have been off the air for a few
weeks.

I have need of a towbar for the Syncro and the only commercially
available bar is about the worst design one could imagine.  It is so
illogical that I can't understand why they ever did it that way. 
The T3 has a perfectly good set of mounting points available, and
that is where the original bumper mounts to the body rails.  (The
Telecom Syncros used the same points and this was a very sturdy bar.)

I designed a towbar that mounts from those points and permits the
original bumper to be used.  In my case, I have the Trakka
conversion which came with a deep aluminium bumper, so I continue to
use it.

I have posted a set of pics of the new bar.  If anyone wants to have
one built, I will send them the drawings.  This cost about $300 for
material, machining and assembly, and the galvanizing cost $75.  For
$375, I have a towbar whose fail load at the weakest point is above
ten tonnes.

Les Harris
Australian Syncronauts