building my cage

blazer77 · Jun 14, 2006

Here are some pics of the cage that i'm building at Hip's shop. With his guidence its turning out great. Still have to add the gussets and tie in the seats. Then it should be ready for some final welding.

zig80toy · Jun 14, 2006

Cool blazer. The cage looks nice, strong, and simple. It doesnt look like a rolling jungle gym like so many projects like that turn out to be. Very cool!!!

Hip · Jun 14, 2006

were not dun yet. there will be bars for the teenage gymnist to play on...

zig80toy · Jun 14, 2006

OOh, it looks like the cab is pretty much done. more cross pieces out back???

Hip · Jun 14, 2006

yeah door bars, seat bars and some triangulation in back. grab bar across the dash.

zig80toy · Jun 14, 2006

What kind of tube is that? Would you use the same tube on a toyota as you would on a big blazer like that or did/would you get thinker stuff??

blazer77 · Jun 14, 2006

The tube we used was 2" .120 DOM I dont think you would use the same size tube, Maybe 1 1/2 or 1 3/4.

crash2 · Jun 14, 2006

zig80toy said:
What kind of tube is that? Would you use the same tube on a toyota as you would on a big blazer like that or did/would you get thinker stuff??

2" is way too big for a toy...

Toyoda1 · Jun 14, 2006

My toy has 2" roll hoop behind the cab, the rest of the exo is 1 3/4

crash2 · Jun 14, 2006

The cage looks good blazer77 except for the back c-pillars. The bend near the bedline will be a failurepoint on a hard impact. but the rest looks good.

blazer77 · Jun 29, 2006

Here are some pics of the way my cage turned out. My buddy matt is a navy welder and did all the welding to my cage. Let me know what you think.

zig80toy · Jun 29, 2006

I think it looks great. I really like how the cage is not in the way if you needed to drop the tailgate and slide something in the back. Very functional.
:clappy: :clappy: :cheer:

Hip · Jun 29, 2006

when we put the seats in we added some triangulation \ / to the b hoop which also holds the 4 point harness. i would have liked one diaganol across the b but he wanted to maintain acess to the back seat for kids. all in all it will work.