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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Clamp to the frame?, Or, weld it on?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Weld it. Otherwise they're just for looks and don't help in a rollover.
Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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R.O.P.S. structures, suspensions, engines and transmissions, cabs, dump beds, logging truck bunks....are all held on with bolts, some like R.O.P.S. by OSHA and MSHA law. Farmer class welders welding on heat treated frames without experience may not be the best option. For starters a 1/2" grade 5 hex bolt has a shear strength of 70,000#....so 8 of them, 4 per side, you are looking at 560,000#. Do what you want, it's your jeep.
Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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I was in a roll over in my Jeep, in 1984.
I was in the passenger seat. The Jeep did a "barrel roll" when it hit a stump on the left front corner.
When the Jeep came to a rest, I was pinned in by about an 8" fir tree, and the roll bear was broke right above my head.
The windshield was folded over on me. The paramedics hat to cut the tree out with a chain saw, and I quit breathing because of the fumes from the chainsaw.
Thank goodness, they were able to get me breathing again after they got me out!
I would NEVER own a Jeep that has only a roll bar. A roll cage is WAY safer!
Have a 2013 Rubicon now, and it has a built in roll cage that will keep the windshield from folding over.
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Think it was 79 when they did the roll bars that went down to the floor behind the front seats.
If shorty and I get a CJ5 for a project we will do a cage.
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In 73 I had a 73 CJ5. Was running an errand in town and went to make a right turn and Two jackwads were racing up the street, when they got to me they split and one was going around my right side as I was turning right. He hit my passenger side and caused me to turn into a brick wall. Insurance company totaled my Jeep. A friend of the families bought it and He tore it all down and rebuilt it from the ground up. Fast forward 4 months and it was totally rebuild and a high school friend bought it. I was in town and my friend saw me and showed it to me and I drove it, it drove just like it did before I wrecked it. My friend had ordered a roll bar for it and installed it and he went to the tire store and put some over size tires on it. That evening they were coming home from the mountains and the tires he had put on that day still had the seating pressure in them causing him to loose control coming through a gravel turn. They rolled 4 or 5 times and the only then that saved the kid in the back seat was the roll bar they had installed that afternoon. Totaled the Jeep again. My friend had it one day and wrecked it.
Writing from the gateway to the great BluMtns in southeastern Washington.
Just remember, "You are the trailer park and I am the tornado". Beth Dutton, Yellowstone.
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Use thick wall tubing- - - -.093" or thicker. Go all the way to the frame with the mountings. Big mounting plates and bolts are OK- - -welding is better. Some of the eye candy "roll bars" are made of exhaust pipe, and they're worthless. A cage is better- - - -40+ years of building dirt track race cars has taught me that there's no such thing as too much protection.
Ignorance can be fixed. Stupid is forever!
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What model Jeep do you have?
Pics?
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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What model Jeep do you have?
Pics? A tutorial will be required.
FJB & FJT
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What model Jeep do you have?
Pics? A tutorial will be required. Wabi knows how and posts lots of pics. Wondering if he has a barn-find. Lots of good stuff hidden in old Midwest barns.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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!948 CJ something.
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My Brother Jim bought it when he was 16 years old.
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Hahahaha
Crush it and buy a 12 pack
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Maybe see if northern Dave can do a restoration. 🤔
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
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Have the shop put one on.
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time. --Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice. --ironbender
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