Awesome!! I am in the process of designing a front tube/reciever hitch bumper and I was trying to figure out how I was gonna address the drier hanging below the bottom tube. This thread just answered that for me. I didn't realize you could change the angle with no ill effect. I will get this little mod done this weekend. Thanks guys.
A/C Dryer location
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I didn't get the chance to do this mod last weekend but I plan to go out first thing in the morning and do this so I can start on my bumper build. Does anyone have any advice or things to avoid wihle doing this? What do you anchor to up above?
I have pic on the first page... I have more pics and info in my thread. Just take the bending nice and slow and you'll be good. Just one bolt attaches to the frame with the way I did it.
So the upper bolt hole is just suspended in the air?
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Here's what I came up with. I looked at moving the bottom of the canister to the right and up like others did (and is shown at the beginning of this thread) With the bumper I plan to start making today that was just not gonna work. I decided that moving the bottom to the left and up was the best option for clearance in my application. I took a couple pics of what I did then added some lines so you could see my thought process. The holes and arrows simply show the movement from the original holes to the new ones. I moved the canister into place then drilled small holes in the body. Then used slightly larger self threading bolts to snug it up. It seems quite snug and should hold just fine. I also added the location of the support bar that will go right in front of the drier. This bar will leave about a 1" section of the drier exposed so I will need to weld a little boxed in plate onto the bottom of the tube bumper support brace. That should be pretty easy. Here's the pics:
Here are the pics of my bracket after I hacked it up.
I'd say just bend the lines more, and move the dryer further up on the mounting bracket. Then you wouldn't have to build protection....
How did you do that and get around the parking light housing. When I began to push it up into that corner I ran into the bottom of the parking light housing. I actually pushed so hard that I cracked the housing and I still had the drier hanging down below where I wanted it. It was just interfering with my bumper design way too much so I went with plan B. My fear now is that if I try to bend the tubes back the other way AGAIN they are gonna start cracking. I think at this point I kinda have to keep it where it's at. Adding a tiny plate under the tubing shouldn't take much time so I think I'm just gonna go that route.
Yeah that housing is close. I just installed a new dryer today and had to bend my tubes back down a little to get to the bolts on top. It was a pretty tight fit with the socket wrench.
Sounds like your at the limits vertically. Is it possible to tilt it further left until you touch the front frame, or would that be in your way?
The bracket is hitting the body mount. It didn't even occur to me to actually cut off the bottom half of the bracekt. If I did that I think I should be able to slide the drier right in front of the body mount and right up against the frame. I guess I will give it one more go tomorrow and see if I have any luck moving it further over. If I can get it up against the frame and a little higher then I should be high enough that I wouldn't need a little plate to protect it. If I'm successful then I will post pics.
If you do hack it like I did, just make sure you rotate yours 180 deg so you can keep the clamping function....
You guys are getting this mod so dialed - thanks for posting
I cant wait for the utube version
I cant wait for the utube version
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Yeah no kidding. I'm close to mounting my modded ARB and getting a solution to this is high on my to do list.
Any updates to this tread? Have there been any noticeable A/C issues through the summer? I am planning a bumper build this winter and will be needing to deal with this same issue and I like what you guys did. I just don't want to mess up the A/C in the process.
My A/C worked flawlessly. ...
