...a "real" roll bar for a toyota pickup? i'm talking about something that could actually be functional, not some worthless sheet metal, bolt-together piece of smittybilt trash. i seem to be having trouble finding anything, there's gotta be something out there!

 

best luck would be to make your own

 

I don't think they call them 'roll bars' any longer for liability reasons. Every one I see says "light bar" or "baja bar" or something like that.

 

might need to look into a full cage or something custom built

 

I think that's why he's asking if anyone makes a functioning rollbar anymore

 

Try the guys at your local chassis shop. They can bend one up and weld it in in a matter of hours. Not too expensive when you price the cost of your neck...

 

I went to the junkyard and pulled one out of a 85 4 runner will have to fab it a lil but it will fit into the back of my pre 95.5 ex cab pickup.

Aaron

 

all pro does!
http://www.allprooffroad.com/index.p...ask=view&id=30

 

Front Range makes one for the taco, that you might be able to modify
http://www.frontrangeoffroadfab.com/tacoma_cage_kit.htm

 

Here you go Kyle -
http://members.aol.com/SterlingEq/bar97.htm

Shipping is probably a killer because they don't knock down for packaging. A local shop probably could indeed make one cheaper I bet.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't a "real" roll bar one that welds onto your chassis instead of the body? I thought that's what a "real" functional was supposed be like.

 

yes. those smittybuilt style lightbars wont do crap in a rollover, except bend.

 

They can be done either way. It is rather tricky to do a to-the-frame roll bar or cage for the cab since the cab is on compliant bushings and the roll cage is rigid. You would need to cut penetration holes large enough to allow for normal flexing and then install large rubber grommets to seal up the gaps. Might not be so bad in a pickup bed where the bed/frame don't move independently or on an exo cage where there is no need for a body penetration. But a properly designed cage attached to the body will work fine.

The factory roll bar in the 1st gen 4Runner is attached to the body in 4 places. It is supposed to be fairly easy to adapt a 4Runner bar to fit in a pickup bed.

 

LOL. So true. They need to put a big label on `em that says 'just for show'.

 

they do say that... if you notice, they are sport bars or the like, not rollbars.. and express that... they have to, its a matter of liability....

 

Actually, even the knock-down bolt-together bars do help a lot more than you imagine. A few years ago a friend of mine rolled his long bed GMC on a curve on the highway - rolled all the way over then ended up on the roof (rolled 1 1/2 times) and ended sliding 50 feet or so on the pavement upside down. The bar was bent, and about an inch ground off the top, but it was intact and the cab was nearly untouched. Only a small dent on each front top corner. There is no doubt that the bar helped a lot.

Having said that, I still would rather have a welded one...

 

Mine is going incab just because I have ex cab.

Aaron