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Old Jun 10, 2012 | 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by bheath
Not to Scale? Y not? Lol
As in the drawings do not match each other in relation to each other lol?
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 05:46 PM
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Sweet joy

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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 08:56 PM
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where do you get steel tubes?
I found it on ebay but i didnt know if there was a store like lows or home depot?
Where did you get yours?
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 09:14 PM
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Ur paper say's 'not to scale'. Just picking. Lol.
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Old Jun 14, 2012 | 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by xjboy14
where do you get steel tubes?
I found it on ebay but i didnt know if there was a store like lows or home depot?
Where did you get yours?
I ordered them from a place called "Speedymetals", a local shop near me. I don't think you can get anything like this from a place like home depo or lowes lol

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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by AoA
Looks great!!!
Where do i send payment to ?
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by BotakBeng

Looks great!!!
Where do i send payment to ?
Lolwut? If you're serious I could build you one... LOL
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 07:21 PM
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If you were any nearer I would definitely take up your offer.
Thx.

Btw, good job!
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 08:30 PM
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Looks nice. Any rattling on or off road?
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Old Jun 15, 2012 | 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Johnthepanpire
Looks nice. Any rattling on or off road?
You can see it tilt side to side a little bit, but no actual noise.

Originally Posted by BotakBeng
If you were any nearer I would definitely take up your offer.
Thx.

Btw, good job!
I work for a freight shipping company, and i have connections through UPS, shipping wouldn't be too much of a hassle...

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Old Jun 16, 2012 | 06:08 AM
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Originally Posted by AoA

You can see it tilt side to side a little bit, but no actual noise.

I work for a freight shipping company, and i have connections through UPS, shipping wouldn't be too much of a hassle...
If you're shipping I'm interested in one depending on price...
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Old Jun 16, 2012 | 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by concretecowboy

If you're shipping I'm interested in one depending on price...
I think it'd be around 150-200 plus shipping... Don't hold me on that, still gotta look into it more
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Old Jun 16, 2012 | 11:41 AM
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You'll have to become a vendor per CF rules.

Keep that in mind.
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Old Jun 16, 2012 | 12:17 PM
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Nice job there. Looks like one we are building for a friends wj. We used a soild piece of 2x2 bar stock and rounded the corners so it fit it the hitch.
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Old Jun 16, 2012 | 06:05 PM
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I just finished building one of these yesterday. I had to buy the tubing at my local scrap yard. Cost me $2.99 a foot, but I was buying the steel for another project. The guy didn't want to make another cut, so I got 8 foot for free. So, all I had to buy for this build was the nuts, bolts, washers and a hitch pin. I'm getting ready to mount my hi-lift to it between the tire and hatch.
I was running with my spare up on the roof and I noticed that after I moved the spare to the rear, I was getting almost 2mpg better. I guess that it was putting up more wind resistance with it on the roof (we already drive a vehicle with the aerodynamics of a brick). I'm going to run with it on the rear and then try a while back up on the roof to see if it was make that much difference in mpg just out of curiosity. I have noticed that my XJ doesn't sway quite as much since it has moved the center of gravity a little lower.
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