Houston area (along with DB's not from Houston) BS thread

Your two side bars are parallel. The bottom bar needs to kick up at an angle so all of your vertical bars across the back need to be shorter.

 

Schedule 40 welded seam mild steel. It's plenty strong for the intended application. Not sure where you're wondering if it will crush.

I wouldn't go that far Kase.

 

Kase, you have a potential sale in your derpwerx thread, better get on it.

 

kase, instead of completely removing the black plastic trim piece under the tail light, you can trim it at an angle. I don't like the uncovered gap either, so I wrapped the wings around under the tails and trimmed the plastic to fit. no pare sheet metal is exposed under the lights

 

oh.....

yeah, little be more tricky then.

 

So the strongest round head square shank bolt that I can find is a grade 5. I hope to find something stronger though.

 

why wouldn't you be able to add shackles?

 

They make a hunter green, camp green, and lime green.

 

I may end up using a standard head bolt for the scrub bars. Mcmaster has an "extreme strength" grade 9 bolt available.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#standard-cap-screws/=qq75j0

 

I wanna paint mine matte gray

 

found grade 8s, but they only sell them in large quantities
http://www.asmc.net/bolts-cap-screws/#/?_=1&page=1&filter.head_type=Carriage&filter.grade=Grade 8

 

I always liked anthracite grey.

 

I'd love to throw some anthras on my truck. But it's too much work and too expensive

 

I would be down to spray that. 4 gallons run about $218. I think your truck would be kickass in camp green

 

BOOM!

http://www.fastener-warehouse.com/Grade-8-Carriage-Bolts-s/418.htm

 

Nice! I guess I stopped searching too soon. I'll take some measurements and get them ordered.

How about a few pictures?

 

camera's still in the truck. i'll post them tomorrow at work.

 

Haha. The only thing that made it inside was that 10' pipe, and only because I had it through the back window.

 

I only got the bike inside, and it didn't even make it up onto the rack