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mcma1

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: Northern Ireland
Posts: 2876

[Wanted] Soft A Bar Installation Kit

Has anyone got any of the parts needed to install the soft A bar?

https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/l...e=L8A01075 Andy

2014 Fuji 110 SW LS3
https://www.defender2.net/forum/post751233.html#751233

2014 Corris 110 SW
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic40056.html

My old Xtech 90 build..
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic15681.html

LS3 V8 build...
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic49051.html

11th Feb 2023 4:50am

nitram17

Member Since: 09 Jun 2014
Location: newcastle
Posts: 2260

I doubt you will find any used examples as they rust within weeks

I think mud used to do a metal version of the top bracket( for an antenna)and somebody on here asked for the dimensions of the bottom bracket so they could make a ss version .....the bottom bracket is the most bespoke thing in that kit and is so thin and covered in Land Rovers specially developed rust attractant coating.....The rest you could make yourself for a tenner.

11th Feb 2023 10:03am

mcma1

Member Since: 16 Oct 2012
Location: Northern Ireland
Posts: 2876

Yes I expect I will just end up designing my own kit if nothing turns up.

If anyone has anything old and rough I will take it just to copy and have some cut/folded in SS. Andy

2014 Fuji 110 SW LS3
https://www.defender2.net/forum/post751233.html#751233

2014 Corris 110 SW
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic40056.html

My old Xtech 90 build..
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic15681.html

LS3 V8 build...
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic49051.html

11th Feb 2023 11:13am

Martin
Site Admin

Member Since: 02 Apr 2007
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 6492

2015 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red

Old thread, no reference data though.

Includes links to the two sets of instructions, showing the different brackets for the different type bars.

https://www.defender2.net/forum/topic54750.html

1988 90 Td5 NAS soft top

2015 D90 XS SW

11th Feb 2023 11:34am

nitram17

Member Since: 09 Jun 2014
Location: newcastle
Posts: 2260

mcma1 wrote:
Yes I expect I will just end up designing my own kit if nothing turns up.

If anyone has anything old and rough I will take it just to copy and have some cut/folded in SS.

looking at martins link to instructions .if you have the later version without the bolt through the rubber at the bottom ..it looks easier and better(as it does away with that stupid bottom bracket it just attracts rot) if you make a copy of the l shaped bracket ,drill a hole in your bumper fit a couple of riv nits and fix the rubber to the l bracket

...to be honest that stupid bottom bracket in the new version serves no purpose other than to attach a fixing point for the rubber at the top of the bumper ....when i was fixing mine you realise how flimsily it is attached at the bottom and you would be far better just using a piece of angled SS. And also it was flatdog that do a top bracket not mud.

https://www.flatdoguk.com/defender-soft-a-bar-brackets~2494

11th Feb 2023 1:18pm

seriesonenut

Member Since: 19 Nov 2014
Location: Essex
Posts: 1205

or this

https://maltings4x4store.co.uk/products/ge...05236.html 2010 XS USW
1957 Series One 88 diesel
1958 Series One 88 4x2

11th Feb 2023 2:31pm

nitram17

Member Since: 09 Jun 2014
Location: newcastle
Posts: 2260

80 quid for tat..i wont pay that should be the motto!if you have the newer type id get rid of the stupid bottom bracket ,bit of angle ali or ss and the odd bolt and buy the top bracket from flatdog and bobs yer uncle 25 quid.

11th Feb 2023 3:14pm

pepethekingprawn

Member Since: 12 Jan 2016
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 54

1989 Defender 90 V8 Petrol ST Auto Chawton White

Re: [Wanted] Soft A Bar Installation Kit

mcma1 wrote:
Has anyone got any of the parts needed to install the soft A bar?

https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/l...e=L8A01075

Sent you a PM.

23rd Feb 2023 8:18am

geobloke

Member Since: 06 Nov 2012
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 4410

Here we go again

After many years the soft A-bar bracket on Miffy has all but disappeared. It was fine last year and got a coating of Lanoguard, but there is no sign of it now and not much more sign of the bracket either...

Any new brackets on the market? or are we still at the "I am NOT paying that much for the same awful product" and finding another way...

Miffy thread: https://www.defender2.net/forum/post993200.html#993200

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18th May 2023 8:45pm

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