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friskjs 04-08-2011 09:41 PM

Roll Bar fabrication
 
so im starting to fab up some roll bars and i stopped by a few off road places and looked at what people had. so heres the thing i want a roll bar, but i want the bed space too. so i found some guy that had some removable roll bars. im not going to be using them as real roll bars but as light mounts and just to make the car look BA, and if i need the bed space ill be able to pull them off. heres some of my ideas and i wana get some of your opinions

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HazardousRanger 04-08-2011 10:18 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
someones got computer skils lol i like this idea!

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although id place the bakc ends on the wheel wells

friskjs 04-08-2011 11:00 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
haha thanks. :D ive been sketching some ideas for about a week. just started putting some planns up on photoshop

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and i was thinking about the bars on the well as well so ill draw up some plans and see what you guys think

Christianguy 04-09-2011 12:08 AM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
Looks like a cool idea!

friskjs 04-09-2011 12:20 AM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
ok i threw a few rough modifications to the old plan. what do you think about the back bar. ill put a few more ideas up but this is the first idea that came to mind. think think think :hello:

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the whole idea is to get some bad ass looking roll bars in maybe mount some lights up top. but still be able to take it off and use the whole bed for other things.

MTman777 04-09-2011 01:02 AM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
Its so crazy it just might work.. lol.. looks great man..

HazardousRanger 04-09-2011 07:08 AM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
why dont u just straighten out the back two? lol it doersnt have to be in the middle u can easily have one fabbed with the parts coming out in the corners

i think having an outward angle would make it look weird and harder to get around than it is

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make a side view of ur last plan please...from the drivers side

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thhis is what i am talking about (from another thread)

http://www.fordrangerforum.com/attac..._1722461_n.jpg

friskjs 04-09-2011 08:25 AM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
i think with the last bar idea it would look similar to this one. but with the angle you cant really tell there bending outward.

i was looking on craigslist and i found some pretty nice ones for about 50-150 bucks. and I found for 20 feet of 3 inch pipe with a thickness of .216 is $208 without shipping. it might be a better idea just to modify one and not make one from scratch.

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HazardousRanger 04-09-2011 08:32 AM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
sounds like uve kinda got it figured out!

friskjs 04-09-2011 01:33 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
ok now i found some cool cheap roll bars on the list. im thinking ill just modify one of these if i need to, but ill still need to make the removable bed brackets. what ones do you like:

$150
http://images.craigslist.org/3n33mf3...3580771757.jpg

$125
http://images.craigslist.org/3n73p63...bc6f831dd0.jpg

$120
http://images.craigslist.org/3m13p53...27ce871feb.jpghttp://images.craigslist.org/3n03m53...2db3f711ce.jpg

$100
http://images.craigslist.org/3kf3o73...4955cd1920.jpg

$60
http://images.craigslist.org/3n13ma3...7b1bf81db0.jpghttp://images.craigslist.org/3n83mc3...f52ea213d9.jpg

SB03Ranger 04-09-2011 01:49 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
awsome, i just dont like the the ones in the wheelwels that why wen i built mine i changed it and put it on the bed rails sits on it. plus i dont like huge pipe mine is only 2 1/4 looks good i think. get that made and throw some lights on that bitch

friskjs 04-09-2011 02:20 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by SB03Ranger (Post 384768)
awsome, i just dont like the the ones in the wheelwels that why wen i built mine i changed it and put it on the bed rails sits on it. plus i dont like huge pipe mine is only 2 1/4 looks good i think. get that made and throw some lights on that bitch

can you put a picture of it up. how did you mount it to the bed rail?

DiabloBlanco 04-09-2011 02:39 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
make me a tube bumper :D

friskjs 04-09-2011 02:41 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
you want me to fab one up on the computer or break out my welder and melt some tubes together haha

DiabloBlanco 04-09-2011 02:42 PM

Re: Roll Bar fabrication
 
Nahh just messin with ya. you got some good CAD skills though!


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