How thick is the tubing you're using? It looks VERY thin in the pictures.

Also, from an engineering stand point your "pinned" connection to drop the tire down is a real weak point. I'm trying to think of a suggestion on a better way to do it but am coming up blank at the moment. The one bolt on each side isn't enough to hold the tubes in line with each other in the event of a rear impact when 4,000# + of vehicle land on the rear (the point of a stinger being to keep the vehicle from flopping over on its roof). On impact, any misalignment and those bolts will either snap off immediately or allow the tubes to move relative to each other enough that they allow the joint to fold, and then the bolt snaps off completely. End result is that the stinger fold up into the back of your Jeep.

My suggestion I guess would be to put a larger piece of tubing over the main tube that can slide along it. This way you fold the tire carrier up into position and then slide the OD tube over the joint and then pin it. Think of a Chinese finger trap, then put a pin in each tube (or in the middle like you have with overlapping tubes) to hold the sleeve in place and hold the tubes inside the sleeve.

 

That joint is solid 1.5 tube that I milled so the is not a problem and it is1/8 wall tube I has built many of these for wrangler that have been trashed and they r still on the jeep so this is not my first build I have been in the fab business a long time thanks

 

Its okay dude lowrange is essentially the bully of cherokeeforum

 

Lol!

 

Solid tube? Not sure what you mean by that since tube is by definition, hollow. And it's not the tube that's the issue, it's the joint in the tube, and what looks like the 1/4-20 bolt you're using to hold it together. You may have been in the fab business a while, but I'm also a mechanical engineer.

You might do better to be more receptive to suggestions people post instead of dismissing them as idiots. Not everyone is trying to find something to mock someone about (like certain people on this forum), but they want to help people make stuff better and keep from wrecking their rig when their "mod" or "improvement" fails to work as intended.

 

There a pin in the now and it is solid stock that I milled to make that joint and like I said I have 3 of these that r on jeeps that r at EJS in Moab that have been put to the test and u thinking that I think u r a idiot that is not the case at all the pics suck how I did that joint it will take on hell of a hit I have tried many ways and this is working good on the other jeeps that I have built

 

That's an easy fix, though. This is what was done on mine.

Carrier end:

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Body:

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I plan to put rubber in between them. If there was a rear impact, the 2 tubes would butt against each other and the quarter guards should hold up fine.

 

Finally! Some recognition!

and to think... one of the very few times I gave a compliment to some fabrication project on CF.