DIY Gullwing Windows For Your 4x4 - BETTER THAN ONES YOU CAN BUY
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
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Kept you waiting, huh?
It's been a while. Todays episode is... Making windows for the SWB v10 twin turbo patrol.
your move @RoamLyfe
I'm fed up of seeing solid glass windows with crazy shipping fees, or insane prices on gullwing style windows, so I decided to make my own... and make it better.
Mine uses a completely self designed mechanism to open the window, and I think it looks pretty good. A few points of note below:
- it's not 100% finished
- the SWB window is MASSIVE. I don't think there's a way to avoid it flexing a bit
- there's no such thing as a perfect product
That's about it.
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Add a small fold down shelf, and you could have the shortest Taco food truck at the Sydney 4wd show.
great, now you've revealed the entire point of this project. Worlds fastest taco van
@@ridiculousthings4x4 I don't know about the worlds fastest taco van. A guy from San Diego who owns a wicked Taco Van might challenge that claim. 😁
Your a nutter and I mean that as a complement.
That is by far the best gullwing window set up I’ve seen.
As for the rest of build I can only say u must love a challenge.
Here is a tip if you are using Fusion360 for your design work on a flat(ish) plane.
Take an 1:1 scale photo, focusing on keeping the camera parallel to the work piece.
Send to computer and open Fusion.
Insert tab > Canvas > Insert from my computer
Place picture on a plane > Opacity to 50% and OK
Canvas dropdown > Right click on picture and click calibrate.
Choose two known points on the photo, measured accurately in real life and enter measurement.
Open new Sketch and simply draw directly over your picture (patrol rear window), I find the fit point spline tool to work the best for complicated curves.
Save sketch as DXF and cut.
This is the easiest way I have found of getting a near perfect DXF first time with large complicated 2D shapes. I hope this helps in future projects! loving the build!
Gotta disagree with this if any precision is expected. Photo aparture never give a true scale to take dimensions from. While it might work with big tolerance items, this wasn't one. The angles I adjusted were done at less than 0.1 degrees each side, and you'd never get the accuracy reliably using this method. It's good to get a very rough idea of shape though.
I subscribed to this channel after only a few minutes of watching one of his videos. Faith in CZcams's algorithm restored.
Welcome! Another video about the weird window thing coming up soon. It gets a lot better than this
Really enjoy your content, the LOLs and the music. Your bang on about the gull wing windows. Will take wife's car to 4x4 expo so mine isn't defected just to see this magnificent machine and the studly builder 😂🎉
Even if you get defected... Vsccs could be on the cards 😏
@@ridiculousthings4x4 what is Vsccs? My Landy is engineered for ally mods but not the 35s because dumb. V frustrating actually. I'm down the south coast. I don't get heat from the blue because it's not Jacked through the sky I guess.
Sorry just did my due diligence and google told me. I'm confused. How did I not know and end up down another rout to full compliance?
Stoked to see the progress on this! Can’t wait to see it done!
Personally I would've made it so it leans the other way when opened because rain but that's a really cool and clever mechanism. Very professional.
I can see why you'd think that, but the other style doesn't have a "waterproof top edge" either. This way, if it's wet, the wet side remains facing outwards for brief openings, but if it's raining, yeah, inwards is better. There's no perfect solution to this.
Fantastic! I'd give you 10 lettuce leaves for the finished product. Might see at the Sydney 4wd show?
top job man, long live DIY!
Solid work. Very nice outcome.
Maybe you could have one lock on the lower outside, and piggy back a lock rod on the inside up to the top of the wondow. 1 less key to have to unlock.
After giving it some thought, the locks will be done via opening actuators. No need for locks at all
Excellent work, thanks for sharing!
I'm a panel beater & have fit a lot of windows, swap that outer rubber to a "rope in" style (same type as your windscreen) far easier to fit & they have better water/dust sealing ability.
Got any leads on where to buy that stuff by the meter? ;) That was my main challenge. That stuff you're talking about is definitely superior to what I've used.
@@ridiculousthings4x4 I think we got our rubbers from NAGS (National Auto Glass Supplies) bought it buy the 10m roll, same we place we sourced our windscreens from.
But you should be able to walk into a panel beaters of windscreen fitters & buy a roll of them too.
@@ridiculousthings4x4 yeah thats almost impossible to do 😅😅
Woohooo. Only been hanging over a month for this haha
Awesome work Greg is design
Another excellent video. I will order a pair once they are available.
Ahh the dreaded swb window dilemma, one annoying part is that the frames have a slight convex bulge to them, so for flat glass it doesn't sit flush against the seal all the way
I considered doing fixed acrylic for my rear windows when the sliding frame seals fully split, and using rivnuts to secure the panels into the opening, butyl tape or sikaflex and a glued in window seal. Painted black edges so the sealant isn't visible, I tried those wedge seals before and they look crap where they bunch up, rivnut/bolted to the frame might make it feel more secure than the window seals
Most security fly screens and roller doors have a dual lock setup, if you wanted to eliminate the outside locking mechanism you could probably retro fit a dual lock to lock the centre at the top and bottom, link the pneumatic struts to the lock so the lock opens then the gas struts follow straight after, to stop them being flimsy bump or roll a few presses into the panel to match the window contour, and plug or spot weld 2 pressed braces on the inside of the panel to help mount the hardware to
If you're after drawers for the back and want to keep the original rear seat, I bought two kings 500mm drawers for about 90 bucks each on special and they fit between the seats and door, with room on the sides to make a removable filler section
I did look at the gull wings they sell for the swb patrols, I don't blame you for trying to make something better, their designs look like first effort prototypes they never bothered to rectify 🤦♂️ lmao
Even on the other companies website they're using photos of windows smeared with Sikaflex. I couldn't handle that kind of quality oversight. I've got a plan ready for the rear drawers, but there won't be any king's trash on this build 😏😏
Other designs also position the hinges right at head/shoulder height when you're climbing through looking for shit at 8pm in the middle of bum fuck nowhere. They're great for designing brand new swear sentences though!
Yeah I'll probably add some spikes at eyeball height. I can't be outdone by the other companies!
Very cool to see ! CANT wait to look at it in person ! Go the Patrol!
🛻🤙😎📹
Brilliant. Love the lifting mechanism. 👍
Waiting for electric open/close episode 🫡nice to meet ya
If I'd known this was your account I'd have given you the terrible picture of Snape you "won" several videos back.
You funny haha man. Clever too!
Fantastic! I've always wanted one of those for my vehicle but they are bloody expensive.
It wouldn't be much of a stretch to adapt these for a 76. Especially with that bolt in rear they've got 🧐🧐 to be continued...
@@ridiculousthings4x4 I've often wondered if it is possible to design new hinges and a new latch for the 76 rear window so it can open 90 degrees or more. Then you could just use existing seals and glass.
I actually pulled my window out once to try this out, but the range of movement isn't there unfortunately. It would be possible to replace it with a mounting panel though, and add a flap to get the same effect
@@ridiculousthings4x4 thanks Matt 👍
Good old cardboard cut out is a dying art..
Well done Mab! Certainly given me some ideas for if and when I can be bothered doing something similar on my LC76. Thanks for sharing.
Stick around, maybe I'll be doing the hard work for that one too
@@ridiculousthings4x4 I now await with bated breath. TIP: Preference is for the open window to be closer to a horizontal plane than vertical ;)
Definitely put some bead rolls in it to add some strength to the sheet! Looks awesome man
That or internal bracing. Still undecided 👍
Great job Matt, can't wait for the next ep. Cheers Steve
thanks steve. Next one is a bit... JDM ;)
I would love to buy this! You put your own spin on it and personally don’t see many down sides. Ofc if you were to have an awning set up it could then be a clearance issue but I love the way she sits up like some lambo doors 😮💨
Lambo doors you say...
You're such a tease 🎉
😏
The baddest patrol in the world. Can’t wait to see this beast in action.
Молодец 👍
Хороший результат 👌
спаси́бо
Fantastic job on the rear windows, cross bracing on the back doubling as mounts for something could potentially stiffen it up enough to allow locks on the side rather than middle? I am jealous of that workshop ngl
evenings and weekends are for youtube playing. The rest of the time I have to use it to try and make "money", with "other people" :(
@@ridiculousthings4x4 extended ah... weekend "don't come in next week, shops getting....floors painted..."
Excellent job bud, well thought out and executed. The passengers side won't make you too blind when changing lanes and that will it, I suppose you could fit some sort of camera system to see down both side to eliminate blind spots, still bloody brilliant. Seeya Rob
How's this for response time? I plan on having a solid window for the passenger side, and now I have the CAD for the sizing I can take it to a glass cutter. Who knows? Maybe there's demand for affordable SWB windows
@@ridiculousthings4x4 Now that's FAST, WOW. I really hope people do want to buy them off you maybe as a kit or let you fit them. Well done again mate. Seeya Rob
Awesome mate, thats a great job 👍👍. Please don’t make a good one for 76 😂😂🤦♂️
It's almost like I might need a product tester for when I do 😏
fucken awesome !!!!!
Dude that is a banger window and if i get another wagon 4x4 im totally getting in contact, if thats ok?
Sure thing 👌
Love your work would you consider making them and selling the for the long wheel base gq?
Yup, it'd be a very easy adjustment in cad
In relation to the commercial offerings, indeed, greed and opportunism is a great strategy for making money.
Speaking of making money, would you consider the design and plasma cutting of resulting hinge components for a range of applications? I didn't think so...oh well back to my high tech Cardboard Aided Design and angle grinder, file, drill press etc.
I'd happily sell the hinges and associated parts, but maybe not the full bezel kit unless it's in the guise of those americans and their "80% lowers"
@@ridiculousthings4x4 I'd send a sketch with dimensions - the hinges i want are substantially different and for a different purpose.
@BenMitro fusion360 is a good software for beginners. It's even on a free licence if you aren't using it for profit. I don't mind cutting out templates if you can get it in cad
@@ridiculousthings4x4 hmmm tempting...thanks.
Hey I had an idea for the locks that will look sleek
Proflow do flush mounted billet locks that are similar to a bonnet pin but are only 30mm
They could look pretty nice but aren’t lockable with a key
Thanks for the suggestion, but yeah, security is a bit of a must. I've been exploring electric locking latches and 12v actuators, that way I could use an arduino and a few lines of code to have the full auto unlock and open experience
Is she going to be a city slicker or an accrual 4x4?
Honestly who knows. I'd like to hope I'd treat it like a princess, but I said that about the 76 and look how bashed up that thing is.
Nice work, but I do have one question what happens if you have an awning?
You take it off, save 1L/100, and never bolt silly things to your roof again 😏
Can you make these for the 76 series? I’d buy some!!
It's on the "to do list". Watch this space
Nice window flaps 😂
for better flying
@@ridiculousthings4x4Reminds me of days I had to replace the windscreen in my 1969 classic mini. Tips:- warmed rubber, lots of lube and slow and steady insert action. 😂
Mate, this is excellent. I had thought you'd just jury rigged the furniture brackets 😂. This is such good workmanship! Well done!
I'd consider driving to the Sydney show from Melbourne just to see this!
I'm almost offended you had such little faith
@@ridiculousthings4x4 it was interesting to see the process and CNC operations. I've always been a tinkerer, and muchly prefer custom/installing myself. I've had a factory of similar size that I did all of the mods to my landcruiser in at the time. I always wish I had more experience with CNC machining. I reckon I'd have made some wild and wacky stuff.
I love the approach of just doing something better than the stock standard that everyone else just does because it's easy (and therefore, more expensive)
Thanks for making the content you do. It's great to watch as I resonate with it a lot.
Can i buy a set for my shorty ?
Any chance you'll make any of these units to sell
I can probably put together a DIY kit to finish yourself, but a finished product mass produced is a bit beyond my workshops capabilities unless I can find a supplier
Sell em
In my opinion it will look awful if you paint it exactly the same color as the cab. You build will go from cool overlander to arab LS swapped dune climber instantly
Aussies need to learn a thing or two from arab SWB mods. They're utterly insane and I love it.