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How would you build it?

steel tubing

Clamp to the frame?, Or, weld it on?

Weld it. Otherwise they're just for looks and don't help in a rollover.

The stock one in my 85 CJ7 worked pretty well. I would copy that one.

Thanks all!

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.

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.

Virgil B.

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.

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.

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.

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.

!948 CJ something.

My Brother Jim bought it when he was 16 years old.

Hahahaha

Crush it and buy a 12 pack

Maybe see if northern Dave can do a restoration.
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It's in a shop now.

Have the shop put one on.