g'day I'm Brett defender wagon owners will know that the rear door stay is
very poor at keeping the door open especially on anything other than a
level surface which can make having a rear door kitchen table very difficult
for cooking when camping that's why I'm upgrading to a Mulgo gas strut kit
with a gas strut being fast superior let's take a look at the kit the kit
contains everything you need such as a replacement bracket a new bracket and
the componentry for the gas strut there are two brackets with the kit one
replaces the whole door stay the other mounting out here with the gas strut
fitting in between now unfortunately for me my rear door modifications with the
table foul the area where the gas strut would have fit so I had to find
somewhere else to put it so I decided to mount it at the top of the door which
required me to make two new mounts which I have made one goes at the top and the
other on the inside of the door frame so let's install this now
the top mounts I made from 2.5mm plate steel and it uses two of the
original door holes and a third hole I installed into the door frame using one
of the rivnuts from the Mulgo kit to offer three points of contact
I'm hoping this setup is plenty strong enough and won't cause any fatigue or
cracks in the doorframe but I'll keep you updated with a future video if I run
into any issues with this design the strut mount simply bolts onto my bracket
the second bracket mounts up into two rivnuts I took from the kit and four
screws so I'm hoping that should be plenty strong to support the strut the
inner mount was made from four millimeter aluminium angle as it was
just a piece of scrap I had available to me and I mounted that with rivnuts into
a aluminium plate that I have at the back and four self-tapping screws which mount
into the bodywork which should give me sufficient strength to support the
struts opening and closing. The before,
and now I install the gas strut just clips straight on
and now the after the strut closes in against the door with just a couple
millimeters of clearance
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