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09-15-2015, 09:24 PM
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| Rock Stacker  Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Ontario
Posts: 82
|  How to make hardbodys Stronger?
I've started my first hard body build and was wondering if it was poable to make it stronger so it will last. I know to build bumper for it and that well help but what about the body itself cause it cost me   thanks for your help  |
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09-15-2015, 09:53 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Fort Worth
Posts: 364
| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
I have never tried brazing a cage, but I once bent up a endocage out of steel rod for the inside of the cab and used shoe goo to attach it to the inside of the body. The pillars between the side windows and the windshield is a common place to break, so I ran a length of rod behind each window pillar. I also made supports out of aluminum to keep the lower sides between the wheels from breaking as easily. Cheap and easy.
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09-15-2015, 10:07 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Ontario
Posts: 82
| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
would you happen to have any picture I get what your talking about. So, bend up some rod of a roll-cage just for the inside
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09-15-2015, 10:48 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Fort Worth
Posts: 364
| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
I don't have the rig anymore and no pictures unfortunately. I basically just used a tubing bender to bend the solid rod as close to the contours of the inside of the cab as I could get. I tried to make as much of it as possible in one piece bent where needed to keep it stronger. From there, just used shoe goo to hold it to the body. Another option would be to reinforce weak points with styrene plastic on the inside of the body. The window pillars is probably the weakest point on most hard bodies. |
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09-15-2015, 11:26 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Turn the mayflower around.. it will never work
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| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
If I remember correctly that body is quite thin like a lexan one. Point of that one is to be light....... best way to keep from breaking it is don't flip it. Lol |
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09-16-2015, 07:51 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Ontario
Posts: 82
| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
I you see the way I drive lol  , it has a Homles Trailmaster BL  in it and I'm going to 3s lipos soon |
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09-16-2015, 10:14 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: East
Posts: 232
| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
Here is how I caged mine...      This setup survived the ECSC with plenty of hard roll overs. The truck is heavy but the cage helped save the body. Last edited by drzoo2; 09-16-2015 at 10:19 AM. |
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09-16-2015, 11:33 AM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Ontario
Posts: 82
| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
Thanks, I'll have to give it a try
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09-16-2015, 12:54 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Gilbert, AZ
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| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
I have epoxied piano wire in the A-pillars and across to front of the roof before. That's all I've had break on my hard bodies so far..
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09-16-2015, 02:17 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Ontario
Posts: 82
| Re: How to make hardbodys Stronger?
What kind of epoxy did you use and would metal work the same of even wood work
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