I have done a quick search with no luck.
Someone said today that they can bend easy and i should pick some up. Are they worth doing? And will others fit like disco or early defenders?
I have a 92 defender 90
Thanks
Ha ha so is that a "get them" or a "dont really need them" :crazy_driver:I went for several years with no steering gaurd as I've seen the plough effect that they can have if you get stuck and just standard steering bars and had no problems. I then managed to hit summit in a water hole on salisbury plain and ended up bending one of my steering bars into a 'Z' shape and the other into a 'U'.
I now have a steering gaurd and solid steering bars and haven't bent them again since.
umm how do you do the tracking then, or having solid ones eliminates the need?
Of course the "chain is as strong as the weakest link" argument comes in here. It is easy to bend a bent arm straight enough to get home and it is cheap and easy to replace a bent one. As soon as you make it stronger with a solid one, then something else will break if you get in that position.
A bit like uprating half shafts. Then the diff or CV go.
SO the best thing is to have the guards and just be aware that a solid one might not be quite the answer you think.
Hence the use of bars made out of 1.250" cds a lot stronger but still the weakest link, also its not a case of bars being bent by collision its shock load to the wheels that is the problem.
Ive never liked steering gaurds ,always favoured a roller on the drag link