PROBUILT FABRICATION

PROBUILT FABRICATION Probuilt Fabrication specialises in Ute decks, Camping/Overlanding builds and Custom 4x4 accessories.

Aswell as general welding and fabrication, whatever can fit in the door and sometimes not Probuilt have you covered!

Part 1.My collection of photos that never make it to the instagram feed is massive so thought I’d post what sometimes ge...
01/11/2025

Part 1.

My collection of photos that never make it to the instagram feed is massive so thought I’d post what sometimes gets left by the way side but is a really cool insight into the fabrication process behind a lot of my work.

I built the shop Ranger tray in August before the 2024 4x4 Outdoor Expo in the lead up to showcasing it on the stand at the event. The tray was completely custom built and 95% of it hand made with very little CAD design, cnc or laser cut components to the build, it just came straight out of my head and put on to sheetmetal and built on the fly by my own hands. In my opinion this type of fabrication is becoming a lost art due to CAD, cnc machines etc and as cool as CAD design is I think there is something to be said about handcrafted fabrication and I have a real admiration for this type of work.

This is part 1 of a series of posts I’ll throw up in relation to the custom built tray I did for the Ranger.
At this early stage of the build I knew I wanted to use our XTR Tray platform and just make changes to it, modifying and adding design features to it 1. Set it apart from the norm in a world full of tray builds on trucks and 2. Get some ideas that had be brewing in my mind but never had the opportunity to implement up until this point. A custom rear exit exhaust with a Lamborghini/Exotic sports car style of tip fell into the design style of the rear end of the XTR tray. In this post the photos document the mock up of the flat deck, the extra height I had to add to the tray mount setup to accomodate the over the x-member high mount rear exit exhaust and the space it needed to be routed that way. I wanted the exhaust to mount as high as I could without losing drawer space recessing it into drawer fascia without taking away or changing the look of the XTR rear end. The last few pics show the way the rear drawer fascia had to be notched to achieve that look.
The rear exit exhaust in this fashion was something that I hadn’t seen in a tray design yet and was something that had been on my mind for a while and was good to get out of my mind and incorporated into a tray build.

Everything they say it is 💯 Beating up the pavement 👊🏽
18/10/2025

Everything they say it is 💯
Beating up the pavement 👊🏽



Less traffic in your own lane 💯👊🏽
14/10/2025

Less traffic in your own lane 💯👊🏽



06/10/2025

You could read the caption or just watch the clip and it’ll speak for itself 👊🏽

Photogenic 😏📸
01/10/2025

Photogenic 😏

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Hand made parts hit different 💯Translating what you envision in your mind into dimensions on flat material and then brin...
24/09/2025

Hand made parts hit different 💯
Translating what you envision in your mind into dimensions on flat material and then bringing it to life with craftsmanship into a functional component to a build. Custom hand made work just carries weight and soul and is the true essence of creative fabrication. I enjoy the process more than putting cnc pieces of a puzzle together.
We need to keep the “Make craftsmanship great again” slogan alive 🙌🏽👊🏽


A lot of people asking about the bonnet vent recently on the facelift 79series, I didn’t document the process the way I’...
20/09/2025

A lot of people asking about the bonnet vent recently on the facelift 79series, I didn’t document the process the way I’d of liked to on the story feed so thought I’d share the fab process of from what I did capture.
It was all hand fabricated from a combo of 1.6mm alloy and 3mm alloy with a purpose to open up airflow to the top mounted intercooler. The owner is going down the path of extracting more power from the Cruiser in the future and the factory vents in the grille and ducting to the cooler offer up quite limiting and restricting cool airflow to the intercooler and there’s some difficulties getting a front mount in the front of these facelift models (it’s not unachievable just difficult), the owner wanted to keep the front bumper look also so even more difficult to get a front mount cooler in there with the front collision sensor in its factory location. So all in all the concept was to gain airflow to the top mount cooler and creating something outside of the trend of just adapting the pre-facelift models bonnet scoop to the new bonnet. The issue with the design of the new model is the taller bonnet profile which leaves the very front surface of the bonnet an abrupt vertical dead space and that’s where I thought the opportunity to capitalise and add some design and style to the new model was, as well as add the function of the increased airflow to the top mounted intercooler cooler. The vent services x3 the airflow the factory vent did as well as also using and maintaining where the factory venting drew air from. The factory cooler is capable of big numbers believe it or not, so throw a fan kit on the cooler and you can expect to see solid figures with tuning.
Word on the street is is developing a pretty impressive fan kit for the the 79series also 😉
We can fabricate these if wanting one but working on a 3d printed version to make cost effective for the consumer.


Design that hits like a Mack truck 👊🏽
11/09/2025

Design that hits like a Mack truck 👊🏽


Iced out in white, and dripping in class 🤌🏽Built different, crafted perfect 👊🏽
11/09/2025

Iced out in white, and dripping in class 🤌🏽
Built different, crafted perfect 👊🏽


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