Anti-Wrap Front and Rear

[BMFScout]

ok, going to try to get one whipped up tonight for my truck. I'm having a hard time envisioning a crossmember with the exhaust/driveshaft/etc. Think I could make a super cool birdhouse mount on the inside of the passenger frame rail with nothing over to the other side and make it survive? I could catch the top, bottom, and side of the frame for the frame mount. Ideas? The tranny crossmember is WAY too far forward on a scout to use for this.

[85cj7]

cook did something really similar to what you are describing, see if you can find anything about it in his build up

[85cj7]

this is the only pic i could find. . . http://www.tamor.org/forums/showthre...t=6650&page=22

[J Cooper]

this is the only pic i could find. . . http://www.tamor.org/forums/showthre...t=6650&page=22

you mean this pic

http://www.tamor.org/forums/showpost...&postcount=329

[CheapJeep]

If you can't make a mount like Cook's work then you could do a side mount like you mentioned. Are scout frames boxed?

Just my idea but you could cut a piece of 2" square tube at an angle like I pictured below but without the cutout for heims. Weld it to the frame then cut 2 pieces of flat stock, one for a gusset to weld from the top/outside edge of the square tube to the frame. The other as a cap covering the back of the tube and gusset to the frame (kinda like a rectangle with a right triangle on top). That would give you a solid flat mount to hang a shackle from.

[sasquatch]

you mean this pic

http://www.tamor.org/forums/showpost...&postcount=329

broke that one. don't make the bar like that. I used an existing cross member behind the cab. if you just make a mount off the side of the frame, i'd be wary of tweaking the frame with torque if its not boxed and thick. that mount on the 9 worked the chunk nuts loose regularly

[J Cooper]

what broke?

[sasquatch]

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[mudtoy67]

I've always kind of wondered if a Watt's link turned parallel to the frame would work for anti-wrap. Just build a truss on top of the pumpkin for your pivot, then you could run some somewhat short links to crossmembers just in front and just behind the axle.

Could work for situations where you need to fit in a more confined space...just throwin it out there.

[BMFScout]

Scout frames are boxed and fairly thick. Fred had suggested putting a piece of pipe through the frame and tying that into my mount so that it couldn't tweak three sides of the frame, or rip it apart where it's welded together. I've got a pretty cool idea in my head, maybe I'll just make it and if it doesn't work we'll just hit the drawing boards again.

[J Cooper]

should have done it more like this

[RCcola55]

thats how it is now

[AggieTJ2007]

I think that it would work just fine. I like the pipe idea through the frame, and add some internal stiffners to the mount to make it solid. I envision it like this

[DRAGOONRANCH]

and just keep it as close to the frame as possible.

[davido]

I had the same experience as Cook. Mine snapped where the tubes met. But the new one meets at the back by the heim and works well. No snapping yet. It's very simple.