[ROGLSTUBB]

Originally Posted by 90Xjay

ROGLSTUBB wrote:

Did you take notes on the project. I am dying to build some for my XJ, but need a starting point. I am wavering between styles of tubing and how to attach them to the underside.

Most of the stuff I fab for myself is just in my head. Infact I am always having to reverse engineer my own stuff as my wife tells me later that she has reconsidered her thoughts on how it looks. which to date is my roof rack, my rockers, and now my safari bar :) :) . I used just what I had in tubing infact the wifes is made from 2'' square and is more like a step. I would use no less that 1/8 wall tubing or even thicker depending on how hard you plan to be on it. I welded it to the unibody channel thing with a 6" X 2" 1/4 plate and then doglegged a little step in my framework to come just below the rockers and then welded a little bracket from that little lip thing down the top of the rockers just because I did not trust the sheetmetal unibody thing. I could later in the future drill and bolt the unibody thing too if I needed to but I am generally not that hard on it.

bchcky sorry I dont have any more of the material I used on mine. I grabbed two 7 foot lengths of it out of a scrap bin just for it. The Stainless steel is pretty costly too to buy more. Ebay had some reasonable ones while back. They were powdercoated steel but I beleive they were 3/16 wall material which would be even thicker that were cheaper than I could build a set. The people out there that mass produce these things can lower there costs to where I cannot compete nor do I try.