engine brace bar

[jacks906]

hi all

has anyone ever made a rear engine brace bar with any success? i have two problems

1. its sligtly twisted (not by me, looks like they tried towing off it or something) an generally not very pritty

2. its catching on the floor

i only want to get it higher than the heat exchangers for the lowering issue, but just wondered what thickness box etc you'd used.
other option was to mod a cross over support bar to solve the problem

any other thoughts?

cheers

dave

 

[moler]

A '72on engine support bar is made from 1" box section...different at the ends though to a pre '72 bus.

 

[baycrazy]

Check out Evil Bens Slice and dice,On his blog-going to do this mod for sure

http://evilbens.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2011-04-18T13%3A59%3A00-07" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;%

 

[krusty]

I chopped the bottom of mine out and welded some more metal to stop it catching on every thing. Seems to have made quite a bit of difference.
http://forum.earlybay.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27014&start=100" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[jacks906]

Sweet ta dudes I've just bought a crossover bar and going see if can mod to fit.... But think I may have to look out for a new bar and do similar to yours krusty

Dave

 

[jacks906]

got this to try for now
was going to make one like this but it popped up on ebay local to me while searching, an at just shy of £4 hopefully do the job and cheaper than buying both and cutting and modding to fit
dave

 

[krusty]

£4! You lucky bugger, what a bargain!