I stopped by leadfoot on Friday and they were able to get more progress on the wheeling wagon.
They got the front frame stiffeners on and they did an awesome job. I am glad I had them do it.
Then one of the top of the cage. Cage still inst completely done. There will be a straight bar tying the B-pillar to C pillar lengthwise and corner gussets from the A-pillar spreader to the center longitudinal bar to help triangulate it a bit up front. Unfortunately, I couldn't triangulate it since my corbeau's sit really high and I am afraid to bash my head if I put it on its lid. Don't mind my ugly mug.
Lastly, I wasn't originally going to do this, but I just cant keep from sharing this crap. SCAR Offroad is a ****ing hack and a god damn moron. The more I tear apart the cage, the more it pisses me off that the dude took so much money from me to get a ****ing shitty cage. Here are a couple of pictures of this dude's "work".
This is what we found when cut the vertical tube off.
After much hacking away and peeling that shit out, we found the following.
Basically, in this dudes forever lazyness, he did not peel off the dynamat type of material and then welded the base plate for the cage to actual sheet metal. Instead, he just barely welded the first plate and then fully welded another plate on top of it. This is the type of shit that kills people. If I didn't know a little bit about fab work and completely confided on this dude's hack job and put it on its lid, I am super confident my passengers and I would of been injured.
Take a look at the C-pillar. Let's not point the fact out that it has like 4 bends in it, which could potentially just cause it to buckle in a roll over. Now take a look at the non-existent base plate. This tube was welded directly to the sheet metal of the fender liner, the inner quarter panel sheet metal and had a small gusset welded to the pinch seam of the quarter panel.
Lastly, this is the type of fitment I got when I asked him to keep the cage tight to the body and follow the contour lines of the body. This was right before final welding and it somehow got even worse after we welded it.
Lastly, my jeep had a previous aftermarket sunroof put it in by a previous owner that I took out, so there was a hole in it that wasn't covered. I didn't know which direction I wanted to go, so I left it open. During our conversation, I told him the jeep needed to stay inside so that if it rained, no water would mess up my brand new seats or get my electronics wet. Low and behold, when I got my jeep back, there was 1" of standing water in it and my brand new corbeau's were stained. After I asked him about it, he denied that the jeep was ever out in the rain and it had only "sprinkled" on it. If you look at the pic above, its obvious the jeep is wet..... The worst part is that he sent me this pic and then lied about the jeep ever sitting outside in the rain.
Moral of the story: SCAR Offroad is a hack, so **** that guy! His name is Nick Baldwin and is someone who blatantly doesn't know what he is doing. The unfortunate part is that he has kids.
