toyota4x4907

I got mine for free. Used, but free

RaginYota

lol.. just took mine off yesterday, time to put the money towards some longs..lol.. now I just gotta sell it..

ozziesironmanoffroad

leave it on. these trucks look a lot better with bars

ozziesironmanoffroad

Chutchman

Thanks. I was thinking about taking them off for a while but I think I will keep them to run with the whole old school theme. I just wished they looked as good in real life up close.

Reaper

heres a pic of the toolbox and tire mount


and just a side view I bet she weighs 60 + pounds



I was thinking about hooking in to the frame later on down the road.

SMOTT

well it was fun reading everything and almost everyone had a good point.
but overall answer is take it off. it makes your truck look way better. the role bar would look better if your truck had rust everywhere.

Jay351

THe roll bar will be going back in, I can't deny it My inner redneck/child loves it way to much.

Reapers setup is awsume! I could amagin mine like that, with my hi-life tucked in to the side I dont know how my 33x12.50" super swamper spare would fit like that

RESmith711

gotta go with a camper and roofrack. you get way more space and room to carry stuff. it also makes you truck look way bigger!

RESmith711

Tubbyfatty

The camper also makes your truck more like a mini van, or a tahoe.... haha.

TOYOTA 1

dood.. put the redneck bar back in there.. how are a bunch of drunk hillbilly's gonna hold on when your shmobbin the backwoods? i vote leave it in, paint it orange, and put beer stickers all over it.

lol jk.. looks good either way.

yoder519

put it back in in and leave it! i used to didnt like them but the first time i seen your truck with it i fell in love. theres somethin about yours that jsut looks awesome.

Duelertoyota4x4

I'd have to beg to differ with that. When i was 17 my best friend fell asleep at the wheel of his 85 yota on a 4 lane highway. he crossed all 4 lanes to the left side hit a raised embankment launched it back to the right while tipping and landed on his roof back in the middle of the highway. rolled it 2 more times from center to right shoulder before coming to rest in the right shoulder up against the guard rail on the passenger side. My friend walked away. Not only did he walk away but when we showed up with the ambulance(I was on the fire department) he was sitting on the ground leaning against the roof smoking a cigarette and holding a rag over the little cut on his left eye.

Now you can argure that the seat belt save his life and i wont disagree with you there at all. But if you also take into account the every window in the truck was broken except the rear slider you might think a little different. Then if you were to look at the rest of the carnage, like how the entire roof of his truck was smashed except for an area about 10 to 12 inches from the dual tube roll bar forward. The entire area of the roof in both the driver and passenger area of where your head would be was only mildy damaged with no evidence of crushing. So yes..the seat belt kept his head from going forward into the destruction zone...but the roll bar kept the rest of his head intact.

The following day the wrecker dropped off what was left of his truck in his yard and upon further inspection we found:

Only 2 more bolts remained unsheared that held the roll bar in.
On the driver side of the roll bar where the double tubes made their bend to connect the top bars to the down bars to form the hoop was the point of initial impact flattening out the corner but the roll bar held its strength intregrity.

The roll bar was not tied to the frame only bolted thru the box with steel plates on the underside of the box sandwiching the roll bar mounts between the box floor.

So you be the judge did the roll bar play a part in saving his life? I belive so. But I also belive if he hadnt been wearing his seatbelt he be dead too. It was both devices working in unison that did it. But without one or the other there could have been a completely different outcome.

But I do also know that if not bolted correctly or just hap-hazardly thru the box it will most likely fail before it can save your life. But some protection is better than no protection.

Duelertoyota4x4

BTW this is almost exactly the trype of roll bar that was in my buddy's truck.

Reaper

Yeah it's a stout and heavy bar it's not the push together and held by screws.

grant526

Mine too. I wouldn't run one of th flimsy slide together and pin in place bars! They look cheap and don't have the same potential as the solid tube units. Though I hope to never need mine for anything other than supporting lights and tieing stuff too. The bar makes a GREAT place to hook my straps when I load my motorcycle into the truck. . .

A SUPER OLD pic!

space-junk

iTrader: (1)

HAHAHA!!! i remember when you were rollin around like that... like the day you came to buy the light bar... lmao... just putting that thing in the bed and driving away made your truck look 10 times beefier...

g.king

Go for the light bar!

Hell, I can't even find a half decent Roll Bar for my 93 'Yota. Everyone around where I live quit manufacturing them due to the fact that on of our main steel plants closed down.

So yeah, go for it!

Teuf

take it off, its to skinny, where's the beef