Heres the spreader bar:
Everything was going great until we did the triangulation pieces. Everything fit fine notch-wise on mockup, but once we tacked them in, there were large gaps in the notches. We tried to weld them as-is, but it just wasnt going to work, so we had to cut them out and start over. Guess thats just how things go sometimes.
We figured out the problem was not in the notches, but in the Pipe Master we're using. Seemed as though when pressing the tool against a joint, it would create one side of the notch fine, but the other side would come out offset, as though the tube was twisted. We didnt figure out what happened until we had everything cut out. So for now on, on simple angle notches, well just do it by hand.
Hope to get the b-hoop completely finished tommorrow, and then place the axle at full bump, then bend up some more tube.
Id like some ideas on tieing the backhalf into the front area of the truck. Im thinking of running two tubes from the top of the b-hoop into the cab, along the ceiling and down the a-pillar. Then I would have another tube lower down the back "wall" which would be used as a door bar which I could mount seats and have a spreader bar across for harnesses. I thinking ill still have tube on the exterior on the roof and the windshield/a-pillar down to the front corner of the sliders.
Thoughts?
