Re: Goatman
Trail Blazer said:
BTW, anyone have any detailed shots of the ROOF, and the seams where you welded the two ends together?
what size tubing did you use for your interior cage? I'm going to have mine re-done......mine is the 2" tubing (overkill, and very heavy). I'd like to have mine tie into the roof, and have a roof rack that ties into those spots.
The MJ roof is taller than the XJ roof, so the XJ roof goes all the way to the back, then the MJ cab is joined at the back corner. The side of the MJ cab is joined to the XJ roof at the drip rail.
My exterior C pillar hoop is 1.75", everything else is 1.5". The interior cage is tied to the body at all three pillars, A, B, and C, so my thought is that I can get away with smaller tube because the body adds triangulation. Hopefully, I'll never have to find out if this is a good or bad idea.
DeadEye, I have wanted to do an MJ....make it a quasi buggy with a small flat bed....but then I got grandsons. I figured I'm going to want to take them with me, especially on camping runs like Dusy and Rubicon, and to Moab and CO, so I decided that keeping the four door would work best for me. I always run with the back seat bottom out and the back folded down, but I can use the back seat when I want to.
I know the back of mine looks really stubby, but it's partly because I kept the back seat. It's only shorter in the back by the width of the hatch and tail lights. The bumper is tucked in closer because of this, plus the design of the tube bumper adds a lot of clearance.