Anyone have a "rollbar" on there 45 LWB

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MY 45 came w/o a headache rack...and have been looking for one......but now thinking with the super valuable cargo I carry (pic to the left) Im thinking a bed mounted rollbar would be a better call.....couldnt even think how ugly thing would be with a inverted 45..... also need to have something to string a bikini top to

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If you want to get serious about protecting your family in the cab of your FJ45 you need to do it right. A roll bar in the bed would not do much if anything in a highway speed crash (plus they look like you are a Mexican drug runner from 1981). The right way would be to build an interior cage that is triangulated and sandwiched through the body and secured to the frame. I know that's not what you are really wanting or wanting to hear but it's reality.
 
Custom headache rack

I would suggest fabricating a roll bar in keeping the OEM headache rack in mind. You could use round stock for the outside and square stock for 3 interior bars and cross bar. I believe profitts has a fine reproduction. My longbed came with the headcache rack but no inside bars...I added them later...Paint'er same color as the rig and you are styling.....
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RustyNailJustin said:
If you want to get serious about protecting your family in the cab of your FJ45 you need to do it right. A roll bar in the bed would not do much if anything in a highway speed crash (plus they look like you are a Mexican drug runner from 1981). The right way would be to build an interior cage that is triangulated and sandwiched through the body and secured to the frame. I know that's not what you are really wanting or wanting to hear but it's reality.
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Thanks
Ya..I have no plans to make it a stock car...Im not planning a daily driver, rock crawler or highway cruiser out of her...especially with the price of Cali gas $4.38 here at a pump your own..Im more worried about the around town 30-40 mph bender....what made me think this deep into it was a mid 80 pick-up was flipped onto its side not even a block away...caused by a T-bone...it stopped when the cab hit the ground but im thinking 45LWB would either like to be wheels or upside down
 
Roll bar

Here is a picture of one that came with the 65 LPB I pick up at SNT this fall, not a good look and hardly functional. If your ever in Durango you are welcome to it. Love the pictures of your rig, gives me inspiration, as you see I have a long way to go.
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In2cruisers said:
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Ya..I have no plans to make it a stock car...Im not planning a daily driver, rock crawler or highway cruiser out of her...especially with the price of Cali gas $4.38 here at a pump your own..Im more worried about the around town 30-40 mph bender....what made me think this deep into it was a mid 80 pick-up was flipped onto its side not even a block away...caused by a T-bone...it stopped when the cab hit the ground but im thinking 45LWB would either like to be wheels or upside down
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I understand where you are coming from completely. Just be careful to put limitations on it. maybe you will want to drive it to a Cruiser event that's only a few hundred miles away, or your daughter turns 16 and wants to drive it.
There are ways to build a a very non intrusive cage that would hardly be noticed.
You are right in your thinking of whats going to happen even in a very light city street roll in a 45. Coming from someone who has been in more than my fair share of car crashes, slow and fast, where I work (Firefighter). I error on the side of "what if".
 
ADUB100 said:
Here is a picture of one that came with the 65 LPB I pick up at SNT this fall, not a good look and hardly functional. If your ever in Durango you are welcome to it. Love the pictures of your rig, gives me inspiration, as you see I have a long way to go.
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Thanks for the offer...but Im with you "not a good look".... But LOVE Durango, but have not been the in ....to many years...

Thanks..... C
 
Maybe I should change directions...now thinking " light cage" ??

I have a guy that one my buddy used for a collective build.... he builds class 9 rigs....and did some CrAZy work on his rig...maybe.. I'll hit him up for ideas/work
 
Can't hurt to get some ideas. If he builds desert cars he should know how to make a cage that will work. With your input on not making something that's over kill or going to take away from the stock look. Makes good sense to me.
 
Mines not a roll bar in the sense that it is only attached to the tray, not the chassis. So really mine is just a mechanism to store gear (MaxTrax, jerry cans etc) on and hold my soft top up.

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I'm really considering a 40 series roll bar in my troopie. Just to be able to utilize it as a third point of the seatbelt system and go bikini top if I wished to go topless. And although it would be minimum protection...it is better than no roll bar.
 
Dan, here is one I did a while back!

factory roll bar in a troopy! On a side note a friend of mine rolled his 40 on the freeway with an old 6 point roll bar bolted to the tub and he walked away! I was amazed how it held up...
1981 hj47 pickup 004.webp
 
That's sweet. I'm looking to go topless on my Troopy. Any other pics of this truck? Did you use two factory bars with supports above? Thanks!
 
Basic bar I have tied into the sliders and also attached at the factory location for a headache rack. I am replacing the flatbed with my OEM bed and will probably add a couple hoops to the bed when it is all done.

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whitey45 said:
factory roll bar in a troopy! On a side note a friend of mine rolled his 40 on the freeway with an old 6 point roll bar bolted to the tub and he walked away! I was amazed how it held up...
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There you go Brian! I'm thinking just one up front.... I've seen a setup like it before and like it.
 
Owyhee Jackass said:
Here's mine, I just added 3-pint belts to it this past weekend.

Dan
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thanks of the pics..
Think you might find it a little uncomfortable with the lower attach point being so high....and I wouldn't use them for kids....could slide under the belt in a accident

Just my 2c
 
In2cruisers said:
thanks of the pics..
Think you might find it a little uncomfortable with the lower attach point being so high....and I wouldn't use them for kids....could slide under the belt in a accident

Just my 2c
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I'm finding that out now. I just drove it to work it was riding up on me a bit. I'll probably move the lower points down to where the stock belts were bolted. I put the mounts where they are to keep the passenger's side belt from rubbing on the gas filler. I guess as long as the gas tank remains in the cab, the belt will have to interfere with it.
 
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miker said:
My fj45 build thread shows how I built mine. Required a few cab modification to provide the floor strength I wanted, but I think the basic cage design could still be done with a stock cab. Here are some start points in the thread where I have cage and cage related work:
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Wow. nice work...I'm embarrassed to have shown my booty fabbed cage.
 
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