Exo Cage Tips

jrraw23 said:
I was thinkin more along the lines of cutting the larger tube in half and welding it on the bottom half of the tube as a kinda skidplate
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I did that on mine. I meant to get some thicker pipe at the salvage yard, but forgot. I ended up cutting a piece in half longways and stitch welding it on the bottom half of my sliders to double it up.
 
SFAZR2Dave said:
I've alway's been concered about that w/ my exo. Is there anything else you can do to make it laterally stronger, other than running it through the cab.
Dave
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I braced the heck out of my rear main hoop, roof hoop, and sliders. I also ran bars down through the hood from the cowl bar at an angle to the top of the frame rails. That is probably the best you can do for adding lateral support.
 
jrraw23 said:
I was thinkin more along the lines of cutting the larger tube in half and welding it on the bottom half of the tube as a kinda skidplate
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By the time you do that....the cost of the 2 different sizes of tube + welding wire and gas + cut wheels, torch, plasma (whatever you use) + the time you spend doing it....

I would just get a thick piece to start with. If you are worried about the .120 on the rockers, you could always get .180

Bracing (Triangle) behind the cab is a must. Add as many small gussets as possible. The span across the full size in the front is just a lot.

Good luck with which ever method you try.

Seth
 
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i have used pipe for a few things and it has alway worked good for me. its cheap and you can buy it at lowes. i have a bender from northern tool, and it works awesome. i had to change it a little bit. the two round dies that hold the pipe against the bending die, alway dent the pipe, and will not let the pipe slide when bending. i cutt a bigger piece of pipe in half to place between the pipe and the round die to allow it the slide when bending. after that i had no kinks. i think it would work for dom and other tubing.
 
:bronco: :bronco: ive seen alot of cages built with the old school northern pipe benden and it looked good... plus u can beef the guns up in the process
 
yea I mean when i tried it it deformed the crap outta whatever it was i was trying to bend immediatly both at the die and the round peicies so I just returned it. I'm just gonna get the protools bender cause I know it works. Everybody keeps saying pipe is cheap but it costs more than the tube prices I've seen posted on here from the place i get it from (mccombs steel - statesville) regardless i have still used it for bumpers/rocksliders but for the cage im gonna do tube prob.
 
ONly issue I would have with used pipe, is if it was used for water. Hard to say if there are thin weak rusted spots.
 
rockmafia said:
Usually, yes. But sometimes they will not slide inside without ALOT of force.
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jrraw23 said:
I was thinkin more along the lines of cutting the larger tube in half and welding it on the bottom half of the tube as a kinda skidplate
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That's more what I was thinking too Jim. I just figured since folks cut larger tube to plate the bottom sides of links, etc., it might work for the items he mentioned... I mean a short (1' or less) length wouldn't be a problem, but trying to sleeve a 3'-4' outer onto a 8' stalk would be a royal PITA... especially if you needed to bend the inner tube & the outer was funkin' up position in the die?
 
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