I spent the last week or 2 trying to figure out how I wanted to build my cage. Drawling after drawing and I couldn’t some up with something I was excited about. It’s hard to build a “cool” cage and also make it strong. There is a lot more engineering that goes into it then just sticking tube together with electricity.
I came up with a couple strong designs but they lacked character. Much like this one I drew up.
Today I was feeling extra motivated and decided to go out and just free hand the general shape. Not really knowing what I wanted I made a wish list.
Strong
Safe
Fit my co driver for hammers(he is 6.2)
Retain the roxor seat storage
Fit with a yj windshield and wiper motor.
Allow for a rear seat with plenty of headroom.
And of course look cool.
After a significant amount of time holding scrap tubes up in a web of ratchet straps and bungee cords to hold everything in place, decided to start cutting.
First to go was MOST of the stock cage. I decided to make things a hell of a lot easier and retain the B pillar body height and down. It is already 1.75 DOM and .120 wall. The same tubing I’m using on the new cage. I found some 1.5 .120 wall DOM tubing from previous roll cage build an and cut sections of it to sleeve the new cage into it. A perfect tight fit and also strengthening the tubes in a critical area.
Now with the B pillar up right I could start building around that.
Here is what I came up with free hand, because sometimes it’s best to just start cutting and bending with a vision in mind.
The hardest part so far was getting up rights for the dash bar. The factory switch panel is directly in the way so I had to get fancy to allow access to the switches.
I plan on spending most of my day tomorrow adding triangulation and bracing. I’m liking where this is headed!
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