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Batam Adventures The
adventure of a lifetime in Batam, Indonesia
Our workshop located in Batam,
Indonesia also fabricates
various Toyota FJ40/60 accessories such as transfer box saver brackets, winch
mounts, hydraulic handbrakes, front bumpers and many more items all tested and
used on our own cars. Please contact us with your requirements for availability
and pricing.
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Transfer box saver brackets are used on all our Toyota offroad
vehicles and rectify an original weakness in the design. Due to the age
and the type of driving these vehicles are subject to, splitting of the
transfer box is a common (and expensive!) occurrence. Use of a saver
bracket has eliminated this failure on our vehicles and is recommended
for all offroad Toyota FJ40/60's. Please contact us for more details.
We use various winches on our offroad vehicles from original PTO winches
through electric to hydraulic. We can fabricate and supply winch mounts/front
bumpers to fit most vehicles. Again please contact us for more information.
We can also provide a complete
preparation service for any Toyota FJ40/60, ranging from suspension
modifications through total re-spray to an engine transplant, please contact us
with your requirements.
We are pleased to announce that we have been
made an authorised dealer for Viking Offroad synthetic winchline and
accessories. Please contact
us for more information and competitive pricing. If you would like to know more
about the benefits we have found using synthetic winchline over the usual steel
cable please get in touch
and we will be glad to share our experiences. An extract from
www.vikingoffroad.com follows which
we hope you will find helpful.
Why switch from Steel Cable to
Synthetic Winchlines? Safety, Strength, & Ease of Handling
Safety: Both steel and synthetic winchlines give a very small amount of stretch,
the equivalent of less than 1% at breaking pressure. This tiny amount of stretch
stores kinetic energy that is released when the line breaks. Since steel
winchline is much heavier than synthetic winchline, the force of that stored
energy is devastatingly powerful, particularly dangerous with people near. The
synthetic line is so light and therefore stores less kinetic energy, which when
released, the winchline virtually falls to the ground with a fraction of the
force of steel. For this reason, 4x4 offroad racing sanctioning bodies do not
allow steel cables because of their inherent danger. Synthetic winchlines are
now mandatory.
Ease of Handling: Steel winch cables have a tendency to kink, rust, and have
very sharp strands once nicked. They also tend to straighten by the nature of
the material making them harder to spool back on the winch properly. Our
synthetic winchlines have none of these problems. However, synthetic lines are
more susceptible to sharp edges (bumpers in particular) and heat, but they are
much stronger, safer and easier to work with.
Strength: Dyneema® synthetic winchline fiber is up to 15 times stronger than
quality steel and 40% stronger than Aramid fibers on weight for weight basis.
This means the replacement synthetic winchline is typically 35-45% stronger than
steel cable! Steel cables are typically sized to match the strength of a winch.
For example a 9,500 lb capacity winch will have roughly a 9,500-10,000 lb
capacity steel cable. The replacement synthetic line would be 5/16" (7.9mm) or
3/8" (9.5mm). Our Viking Winchlines are rated at 12,300 lb (6 metric ton) for
the 5/16" and 17,600 lb (8 metric ton) for 3/8", making them approximately 23%
and 46% stronger on the conservative side.
A note about "rated" strength of recovery equipment for vehicles. There is no
governing criteria to measure the strength of products used in vehicle recovery.
Some products like hooks and shackles come from Overhead Lifting industry that
has strict rules about strength measurements and safety factors. This is where
WLL comes from. WLL is Working Load Limit. Typically a run of the mill Shackle
for example will have a WLL of 4.75 US Ton with a 4:1 safety factor or
approximately a 38,000 Lb. breaking strength. When it comes to the breaking
strength of rope it becomes even more confusing. There are several methods by
which rope is measured, and comparing these data is like comparing apples and
oranges. In the past we have taken the widely accepted average breaking
strength. However, Viking Offroad has taken a lead by leveling the field with a
straight forward measurement: MBS or Minimum Breaking Strength. Now all
measurements of strength of our products will live by these rules. Rated
shackles will be posted in our literature with their MBS, rather than WLL, and
all our ropes including winchlines will carry the same MBS rating. This will
appear that our winchlines are not as strong as the advertised strength of
others. But in reality, you will not know the truth about other winchlines/ropes
until true MBS is revealed. In addition, our winchlines are break tested with
eyes, whereas some ropes are lab tested without eyes. It would do no good giving
out a number that is lab tested without eyes. It's not the real world, because
you need eyes on your rope to connect it to a Tree Saver or another vehicle.
Bottom line is AmSteel Blue is made from the strongest fiber available: Dyneema
SK-75, and with a Viking winchline you can be assured of the best quality US and
European made goods. No imitations accepted.
Buyer Beware: There are variations
of very strong synthetic ropes that we have seen on the market. These can
include Amsteel rather than AmSteel-Blue (both can be blue and virtually
indistinguishable) and Dyneema SK-60 available as well. Viking Offroad will
never substitute synthetic ropes of lesser strength or quality. We always use
genuine AmSteel-Blue™ (Viking Trail Line) for our winchlines.
Viking Winchlines© are Genuine AmSteel-Blue™ with Samthane™, a special coating
to help resist abrasion. The raw material in AmSteel-Blue™ is made from Genuine
Dyneema® SK-75 HMPE fiber, "which is the worlds strongest fiber™" made by DSM in
the Netherlands.
For more information please complete the enquiry form or contact us directly
at
Info@adventurebatam.com
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