rear bar mounts

[PJ.zook]

Did a search, couldnt find anything relevant.
I want to create my own rear bar which will eventually act as mount for part of an exo cage and also have a swingaway tyre/jerry carrier. I need to know how most other people have mounted them. Im thinking weld a drilled and tapped 10mm thick plate into the end of the chassis rail, and have that as part of the mount, then have a nother couple of mounts somewhere down teh chassis rail? Pics would be good. Ta

[nicbeer]

Mine is mounted with 2x plates and bolts to the orig body mounts under the rear door and also then 4 bolts to plates also attached to rear bar bolted through where orig towhook comes off.

seems damn strrong

Nic

[Bad JuJu]

I sandwiched my rear bar mounts between the tow bar mounts and the chasis on the bottom, and used the body mount bolts at the top.
Pretty muck like the shrockworks unit here:

http://www.izook.com/tech/samurai/bumpe ... bumper.htm

For those too lazy to look here is the relevant pics from that artical




I made the bumper from 100x200 rhs and cut the inside profile out with a plasma cutter to wrap aroun the rear quarters , the scrap I used for infill on the ends.

I mounted LED lights in the new bar.

[sanger]

I made a tube bar and mounted it the same way. Proves to be very strong so far. Just use thick steel to mount it and you should be right.

[PJ.zook]

Awesome thanks guys thats exactly what i was after. I have a 2" bodylift so i can prob do the bodymounts under the body.

[PJ.zook]

Would somethin like that bar with a hayman reece hitch welded to it be strong enough to tow say a 6x4 full of rubbish?

[fool_injected]

There is a hitch on the bar below

[Pinball]

Used same mounting points as towbar for my tube, incorporated towbar for extra tank protection.

Article "Barring Up II" at www.pointnshoot.org about page 3 at the moment.

Spock

[bubs]

This is what I did on my old one