so we've got a super exciting time ahead of us now the vehicle is done
at the panel beaters we you know we got the canopy on and it is
now time to start pumping out the hilux
so i'm here at none other than Onca off-road
these guys are legends in the local industry here in south africa
they really take the over-landing and off-road industry
super seriously they live it they breathe it they're very passionate
about the same thing that i'm very passionate about
they just take it to a whole new level now if you ever get the
opportunity to come through here and walk around and you know see
all of the amazing vehicles you know you don't get the opportunity
i'm gonna show you because it is wildly impressive they have got some monster
rigs here from 79 series land cruisers to 200
series to fj45s they are toyota fanatics they
live and breathe this stuff so i couldn't be
happier to be involved with them with the new roam 2.0 build
because i know my vehicle is in some seriously
safe hands and that hilux is going to turn into something
seriously epic over the next week so stay tuned
welcome to another episode of Roam Overlanding my name is adrian abrahams and
last week we head over to Eezi Awn to install our
camping setup but now we're going to be heading over
to Onca off road to give our tame hilux facelift
and turn it into an absolute beast
quality is one of Onca's top priorities so much so that they do every step of
the process in their own facility everything from cutting welding
and even the powder coating every step of the way
they've got rigorous quality control and all of that work
has led to their new bumpers being adr certified this also allows them to
service an international market and share their epic south african
engineering with the world i cannot wait to get
their products on my vehicle
so today we're in for a real treat i'm here at Onca
and if you know ankur then you know what is about to happen to this hilux
here is the front bull bar that's going to be going on the rear bull bar is
hiding over there we've got a new grille that's going on
we've got rock sliders going on we've got a winch going in
today is going to be epic and there's no one better to handle this
process than Onca so what we're going to do now is we're
going to pull in the hilux we're going to start stripping it
again it's only been a couple of weeks instead of strip but
you know that's how things go and we're gonna start
putting everything together this is where the hilux goes from just being
an ordinary vehicle and becoming something
really really special and really cool so once we've got the bumpers on it'll
allow us to put on bigger wheels it'll give us better
approach and departure angles we'll have i'll actually have a tow ball
on there for potentially using trailers and stuff in the future
we'll have a place for a winch we're gonna have better lighting
it just opens up so many options for us for the build
but anyways let's get cracking there's no time to waste
anka used to run a fitment center out of their facility
but have recently been focusing their attention on research and development
so i'm actually very lucky to have my bumpers installed here
and we had a ton of work to do to get today's transformation complete
and as you know along the way is always bound
to be some setbacks
so we've already encountered a couple of little issues here
that on curves very kindly sorted out and on either side of the vehicle again
exactly the same place you seem to be too stressed this vehicle
has done like 80 000 kilometers hard corrugated roads what can happen is
if the tires aren't inflated correctly if the suspension isn't
capable of handling the weight of the vehicle or the top
terrain the body of the vehicle can actually start to
take on that stress and actually that's where it becomes affected the most
but then there's also been a couple of areas of some corrosion and stuff like
that on the mounting point so they just want to make sure that that's
all climate and cleaned up that we don't have any issues
later down the line once the stuff bump this just goes to show the kind of
meticulous care that anka have about their product
now like i mentioned earlier Onca bumpers are ADR
certified and this takes a huge amount of work to achieve
so the bumper needs to be able to crumple in an accident
however still be strong enough to support a recovery attempt
from the 12 000 pound winch we're installing
all of the specially engineered brackets will form the foundation for mounting
the bumper in both a strong and secure way it's not
as simple as just putting the bumper on each vehicle is slightly different so
they build tolerance and adjustability into the bumpers and even consider the
fact that the chassis and bumper move
independently of the body of the vehicle so that the gaps between everything need
to be perfectly spaced out to ensure that even in extreme offering
environments the bumper and the body never touch each dimension needs to be
measured to the millimeter to ensure a perfect fit
you also really get to see how much more tire clearance and approach angle you
gain with an upgrade like this and all of
that is just going to help you out even more off-road
it's so amazing what a difference the bull bar has made
but it's also been really cool to see how much
bracketry there is going on here the different crumple zones and things of
the bumper and seeing it like this you really get to tell that i'm going to
take a safety and strength very seriously on
their products so what we're going to be doing just now
is once all the bracketries everything's done the bump is lined up
i mean this thing is lined up to the mill
it's it's pretty perfect then they will drop in the winch and the winch cradle
and get everything sorted there what we're going to be putting in is a
smittybilt x20 12 000 pound winch and obviously the
vehicle is going to be quite heavy and the winch needs to be able to be
strong enough to pull the vehicle out comfortably so i
think we're definitely going to be sorted on that side of things
and then we got the lights to install and
we can put in a new grille so it's a really exciting transformation that's
just the front end of it we still have to do the rear bumper and
the rock sliders but i can't wait to see all of this
stuff kind of come together it's seriously transforming the look of
the vehicle we also decided to have a bit of fun
with the build and go for these awesome red bash plates
which are going to protect the sump and transmission while we're off-road
and it's also really great knowing we've got a winch for this build
just putting the finishing touches on the bumper now
and pretty much ready to go on putting on the side steps
these rock sliders might work as a side step
but they are far stronger than your average side step and will protect the
sill of your vehicle when you get hung up on rocks
when you're off-roading so we've wrapped up doing the bumpers and everything
we've flipped the car around and it's now time to get started on
doing the rear bumper hooking up the wiring harness for the
towing setup and uh yeah let's get going i'm
super excited to see everything kind of come together get
this baby outdoors and start really having a good look at
it and appreciate all of Onca's hard work with many hours
being put into the installation they could just wrap up the last little
details and finally we can get to see the setup in
all its glory and just so you know the sign of a good
bumper is not how they look clean but just how
good they're gonna look when they get dirty
so this has been a very very cool process getting to follow the entire
installation of the Onca bumpers side steps and
rear bar on this car it's a massive transformation to the
vehicle at the end of the day and you know it really takes it from being a
standard hilux and turns it into something quite
special so if you look carefully at the front of the vehicle you can see we've
actually done a facelift at the same time as doing this
because this delta bar is actually designed for
the dakar shape hilux so we've gone ahead we've done the
facelift on the vehicle it's really kind of
brought it into the current times a little bit maybe not too current but
at least it's a little bit looks a little bit newer and then
when we look at the front bar here you can see we've got the hoops on here
this is just to give a little bit of extra protection the bar is also
available without them personally i just think
it's a very rugged look and if you do happen to hit
an animal or something at night or in the late afternoon at least your
vehicle is going to be a little bit more protected
we do also have mounting brackets here to be able to put some additional lights
which we will be working on doing and actually what's really nice
here is this number plate is very easily removable
if you need to do some winching now what we have here is we actually have a
12 000 pound smittybilt x20 waterproof winch and we're running a
steel cable at the moment much up to a synthetic cable i don't
know let's see so far what i've what i hear of the steel cables is low
maintenance and but it is heavy and it is a little
bit more dangerous it is one of those things to just kind
of take into consideration a little bit but we've also got some additional fog
lights here which just kind of added a bit of an
extra kick and the standard ones were quite
quite dim so it's good to have something a little bit more powerful and i
do want to maybe upgrade my headlights as well but you know depending on what
we put over here we may have all the light we need so
speaking of protection underneath here we've got a full bash
plate and we've gone for a nice little red
color there so you will be seeing more of the splash
plate later but essentially we removed the batch
plate that was on here it's seen better days and the anka bash
blade kind of is going to go all the way underneath here and we've
got another additional batch plate covering the whole transmission so we
pretty much have got pretty much a full skid plate underneath
there and it's just going to give me that peace of mind when going off-road
and doing really tough stuff to know that we're not wrecking everything
underneath the vehicle something that i think is key for
anybody with a 4x4 is definitely doing
your rock sliders now what's nice with the ankle rock sliders
is that they do at least give you somewhere to stand so if you do need to
use them as a side step to get in the vehicle
or to get up to access your roof rack or in a bit of a 4x4 recovery where you
need to pull on the vehicle a little bit you've got
you've got options and at the end of the day
they don't just look great and add a nice little red accent
but they're actually again they're functional and on the rear
now the rear you can go quite crazy you go super functional in the rear you can
have spare wheel carriers and carry extra
jerry cans and all sorts of things like that but for me
i've gone for a simple setup i don't want the extra weight hanging
over the rear axle i want the vehicle to feel balanced
so i've gone for just the standard bar we've got our two recovery points we've
got high lift jacking points we've got a tow bar if we want to one
day tow a trailer or something like that if you're going
four by fouring though i would remove the tow ball because it
obviously sits very low and it's going to
really hamper your departure angles simple to remove
two bolts it's out and you're ready to go
but you know what all of the ankle products they look incredible they've
been designed really really well and they're made to
be strong so i'm very very happy to have partnered
with Onca for Roam 2.0 i think they've done an incredible job
kitting out this vehicle and i cannot wait to get out into the bush
and really start putting the gear to the test
but thank you so much for watching this episode and you know seeing this
transformation and i hope you're going to tune in next
week because you can see she's sitting a bit
low she's a little bit heavy and next week we're going to be upgrading the
suspension we're going to be putting on some bigger
tires so i cannot wait for that it's really again
this vehicle is going to look like a beast but anyways guys
we'll see you next week cheers thank you for tuning in to this episode
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