mmyers said:
... lateral bars to tie the rear struts together, and to mount a spare there. The middle looking mess braces the crap out of the B hoops.
I am feeling some bad karma here. I am not feeling a flow.
I am not one with the tubing.
Mike, are you the cage?
Can you feel like a cage? Can you be the cage?
You are creating some bad cage karma here. Your cage is not flowing.
If the Jeep Gods haven't trashed your life yet, they are meeting to do so.
Take a deep breath and look at your Jeep.
Yes, Mike; it hurts. Your Jeep is in pain. It has no balance. It has no flow.
Breath in. Close your eyes.
Feel how the tubes can flow from the forward load points into the central hoop.
The hoop has strength.
Feel the inner strength of the hoop. It is POWER. It is INVINCIBLE.
Feel how the tubes can flow from the rear load points into the central hoop.
The hoop is ready to receive. the hoop is ready for you to merge.
Your cage is everywhere. It's strength is nowhere. It has no flow.
Close your eyes.
Take a deep breath.
There is a wooden roof truss in your minds eye...
Be the truss. Feel the power of the truss. See how the energy of the mountain flows through the truss.
It is good.
It is power.
It will give you the positive karma that you yearn.
The cage that surrounds you will protect you.
Trust your Jeep. Be one with your Jeep.
Be one with the tubes.
The twin hoops design is a good thing. You can feel the energy radiating from the tubes.
Oh Fawk!!!
I knocked over my beer!
Anyway, think of the cage as a truss. Same as a roof truss.
The force at the suspension pick-up points need to feed into the central hoop. The twin hoop design is fine, but the rest of it is way too busy. Your Jeep "looks" front heavy. You should consider some sheet metal panels in the rear to provide balance. Build them with tear-away mounts. They are expendable. They are easy to bend out of flat sheet steel. They will balance your Jeep.
Build an "A" hoop. Build the twin "B" hoops. Join them. You have a box with six sides. The floor strengthens the bottom side. The firewall strengthens the front side if you attach to the door hinge points. "X's" will strengthen the remaining sides. Don't make it so easy to enter and exit. It's a trail rig. Go with the flow. build some "X's". Attach them at the corners of the box.
Now the box is strong.
Run some tube from the corners of the box to the suspension. It the tubes are too long, brace them. They form a wedge. The floor strengthens the bottom of the wedge. Triangulate the remaining sides.
While you are building triangles, think of the ways they can help attach HiLift jacks and big spare tires.
Take a deep breath.
Weld, weld, weld.
Your karma is flowing.
Your karma is becoming positive...
