Fellow cruiser-heads, i need some advice. I will post pictures to explain what I'm doing, but essentially i had to cut out the original crossmember that sits behind the transmission to fit the H55 and now I have to build in a new one to weld anti-wrap to. Here's what we've got....
Original crossmember cut....looking to place new one where the red arrow is.....
I need to maintain access to back side of frame in case I need to remove steps in the future... (green arrow- bolts, red arrow- where I would drill through the frame)
My best estimate is that I will need a crossmember that is almost 36" long if I do it like stock and go through the frame on both sides....
This would leave the crossmember about 27" from the rear axle.
Question--will this leave a long enough anti-wrap bar to be effective? I am using the Ruffstuff kit which has 2" x .25 DOM as bottom bar.
Will hopefully look like this....
Original crossmember cut....looking to place new one where the red arrow is.....
I need to maintain access to back side of frame in case I need to remove steps in the future... (green arrow- bolts, red arrow- where I would drill through the frame)
My best estimate is that I will need a crossmember that is almost 36" long if I do it like stock and go through the frame on both sides....
This would leave the crossmember about 27" from the rear axle.
Question--will this leave a long enough anti-wrap bar to be effective? I am using the Ruffstuff kit which has 2" x .25 DOM as bottom bar.
Will hopefully look like this....