JOESHTRDDSL
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Now those are some traction bars. Deffinately strong enough and they are bad azz. Those are exactly what I want to build but I can't find the tubing anywhere local.
I'm curious to see where you are going to fit that axle mount. Between the swaybar, shocks, brakes, etc all in the way, I couldn't see a place to put a mount like that. I'm just going to weld the mount on the lower leaf spring plate.
Incase anyone is interested, I found a good read on the subject. http://www.4x4wire.com/jeep/tech/susp/axlewrap/
I worked on my bars yesterday a little while. I have company coming over today & I'll work some more tonight. They are turning out great. I just need to find a 1" tap for my heim joints as I don't want to go from the DOM tubing to butt welding a top link at the ends, kinda defeats the purpose of me buying the .50" DOM. I think I'm going with the 77" design. I finally found some square tubing that fit together real nice to build my suspension blocks. I've got alot of work to do. How are your bars coming along? Mounted yet?
I plan on doing the exact same setup on my '06 already got 2 sticks 0f 2" DOM x.250 wall that are 10'long.Just have to figure out who long I'm going to make them.Going to use the Johnny joints as well.The frame mount I was going to use this mount.
Just can not decide if I'm going to bolt it on frame or weld it.More than likely welding it on.
I had a post a while back asking about using .25 wall DOM & everyone told me that it isn't strong enough. I also noticed that your front mounts don't have a piece of angle welded to the top. I was told that if you drill holes in the bottom of the frame, the frame can crack. They said to use angle iron & bolt through the side of the frame. Just letting you know what I was told. By the way, I got the Pacbrake today, looks like new, Thanks.
According to your post earlier in this thread you still used .25 wall (2" od x 1.5" id).
These trucks would split the factory lift block before bending a 2" .25 wall piece of DOM. A piece of 1.5" sch 80 pipe would have been a much better purchase pricewise and worked just the same for this application.
According to your post earlier in this thread you still used .25 wall (2" od x 1.5" id).
These trucks would split the factory lift block before bending a 2" .25 wall piece of DOM. A piece of 1.5" sch 80 pipe would have been a much better purchase pricewise and worked just the same for this application.
A piece of 1.5" sch 80 pipe would have been a much better purchase pricewise and worked just the same for this application.
I did a couple calcs on the sched. 80 pipe vs. 2" DOM based on a length of material, finding that 2" DOM is approximately 35% stronger in a bending (stress on beam) application than the sched. 80 pipe.
This doesn't mean pipe will not work. It's simply illustrating the differences between the choice of materials.
point loads would be useless
Tell me what you come up with, and what tubing (or pipe) would be superior in a traction bar application.
-jp
I did a couple calcs on the sched. 80 pipe vs. 2" DOM based on a length of material, finding that 2" DOM is approximately 35% stronger in a bending (stress on beam) application than the sched. 80 pipe.