yeah it's badass what it does to your credit rating too... wait until you try to get another truck. I have been there... I fought not to let them give me the discounted credit off.
Doug
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yeah it's badass what it does to your credit rating too... wait until you try to get another truck. I have been there... I fought not to let them give me the discounted credit off.
Doug
asssphinctersayswhat?Quote:
Originally posted by Krawler68
yeah it's badass what it does to your credit rating too... wait until you try to get another truck. I have been there... I fought not to let them give me the discounted credit off.
Doug
my credit is already ****ED... hahaha... and it amuses me. i will pay cash for my next truck anyway. my only expenses for the next 4 yrs will be food and ranger payment. i'll be able to pay for a decent USED tow rig within the year. all the while, working to REBUILD credit.
more cage criticsim.... thats why i started this... I WANT critique... this thing needs to be done right.
i found a flaw in my desing just a minute ago- there was no support between the bumper and the bar over the front wheel well... c'mon assbutts, help me out here.
I think you should ditch the doors and go with a design something like Hal's... his cage design proved itself pretty well this last weekend in katemcy.
It's a halo around the cab... simple spreaders running down to the rocker guards that are made of 3" and thick pipe... he has beat the poop outta these.... I'd personally use 2"x6" square tubing as rocker guards. I would gusset the hell out of each junction where the spreaders come up and meet the halo.
Then I would triangulate door bars and put some goofy looking fender protection/gusseting on the front bars running along your hoodline... that will reinforce that bar.
I also think cross brace behind the seats would be invaluable. something much easier if you ditch the doors. beside how long are you actually going to want those?
After you lose the doors I recommend you remove your windshield and install some lexan that you have bent with a heat gun and use self tapping screws to faten it all the way around.
Doug
word on the 2x6... thats what my rear bumper is made of, and the front will be too. its good stuff.Quote:
Originally posted by Krawler68
I think you should ditch the doors and go with a design something like Hal's... his cage design proved itself pretty well this last weekend in katemcy.
It's a halo around the cab... simple spreaders running down to the rocker guards that are made of 3" and thick pipe... he has beat the poop outta these.... I'd personally use 2"x6" square tubing as rocker guards. I would gusset the hell out of each junction where the spreaders come up and meet the halo.
Then I would triangulate door bars and put some goofy looking fender protection/gusseting on the front bars running along your hoodline... that will reinforce that bar.
I also think cross brace behind the seats would be invaluable. something much easier if you ditch the doors. beside how long are you actually going to want those?
After you lose the doors I recommend you remove your windshield and install some lexan that you have bent with a heat gun and use self tapping screws to faten it all the way around.
Doug
my cage design isn't too dissimilar from Hal's but i wanna keep the doors... its still my daily driver.
i'm not sure about the lexan, it sounds pretty expensive.
another pic... sorry its black n white..
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I think you can pick up some lexan for the windshield for WAY cheaper than buying a new windshield...
You'll regret not losing the doors right off the bat...
Also, you won't have any of those bed bars right? I thought it was a flatbed?
Doug
it is a flat bed, but i like the idea of a cage that still follows the outline of the bed. i think it'll look purty sweet to have an all tubular bed.
i want the doors.
Nix - the way you off-road that thing, the unprotected doors will end up being rendered un-useable on the first trip you take. If you really want to keep them I would say build some sort of hinged protection for them. Don't really know how that would work though...
well i fukkin need them. its my daily driver damnit... it does rain from time to time, and it gets cold as fukk too. god only knows where the corps will have me stationed. the doors STAY.Quote:
Originally posted by bburris
Nix - the way you off-road that thing, the unprotected doors will end up being rendered un-useable on the first trip you take. If you really want to keep them I would say build some sort of hinged protection for them. Don't really know how that would work though...
probably. hehe.
i might do half doors with my factory doors.
whatcha need to do is keep those doors and make some tough half doors for offroading... ima gonna do it when i do my exocage this summer... i cant wait:D
well... the idea was sorta to just cut off all the frame work above the window baseQuote:
Originally posted by Shaggy
whatcha need to do is keep those doors and make some tough half doors for offroading... ima gonna do it when i do my exocage this summer... i cant wait:D
viola! half doors
but i still have doors and functional windows...
then i make it so the windows roll up and meet weatherstrip on the cage
i'm an evil genius
keep the doors
just take them off like the toyota folk do. and maybe throw a brace in there so its got some sort of cab stiffener, the hollowed out door shell probably won't be enough.
no, not hollowed out- they'll be the same as now... just from the window frame up i'll cut the door pillars off...Quote:
Originally posted by robertf03
keep the doors
just take them off like the toyota folk do. and maybe throw a brace in there so its got some sort of cab stiffener, the hollowed out door shell probably won't be enough.