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Old March 11th 05, 11:35 PM
Jeff Hendron
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I agree with the flimsy material they used across the frame rails in the back.
I had 1/4" steel cut the same size and shape as what is already back there
welded to the existing one and then have heavy angle bracing on both sides
where the frame rails meet the plate in the back. They use the two holes in
the frame near the back and two holes that go through the "cross member" and
bumper.


Jeff Hendron 2003 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon
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Dave Milne > wrote:
: True - the factory tow bar has substantial 1/4" angle bracing and bolts onto
: the frame in 6 places (two each side of the frame rails, and a bolt
: underneath each side). I wouldn't even give that pathetic piece of sheet
: metal the dignity of the name "cross member".

: Dave Milne, Scotland
: '91 Grand Wagoneer, '99 TJ

: "Mike Romain" > wrote in message
: ...
:> Have you ever looked at how solid the bumper is bolted on or at what the
:> bumper is bolted on to??? Only a few bolts into a cross member that
:> really isn't very structural for a pull.
:>
:> For towing, you need the hitch bolted onto the frame or major angle
:> bracing to hold the cross member and bumper to the frame tails if you
:> want to have the bumper structurally sound for pulling.
:>
:> They correctly figure you are going to tear it off (stock bumpers with
:> bumper hitches get ripped off all the time in an extraction, it seldom
:> works out of mud) so figure it is safer to have a mud pit missile than a
:> trailer on the highway going it's own way.
:>
:> My $0.02,
:>
:> Mike
:> 86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
:> 88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's
 




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