Have you ever experienced a sway or over-steering while you were driving your pickup truck? Actually there is a method to solve this problem that is to install a roll bar on your truck box, which can be mainly made by metal such as iron roll bar. If you are interested, please read on.

What’s roll bar?

It refers to a kind of iron shelf or stainless shelf which is installed on the back of a truck. Roll bar looks like a clothes hanger as it is made of a straight and long bar with two standing triangle shelf, giving a support for the total structure. Roll bars is a new accessory occurred in recent years with the explosion of truck accessory market.

What’s the benefits of roll bar?

To make your truck standing out

Roll bars can offer your truck a rugged off-road look that will definitely stand your truck out.  In addition, most trucks are installed with the same and common accessories, if you installed with a tough roll bar on your truck people on the road will definitely turn their head and surprise at your cool truck look.

Besides roll bars with either a black powder coating or a shiny stainless steel coating is available. You can choose the different coatings according to the entire looks of your truck. The coating painted on the roll bars not only makes your truck look more cool but also protect the roll bar. Our powder coating roll bars have a longer service life than the ordinary roll bars with a 5-year warranty.

To prevent the back window of your truck

Have you ever been transporting heavy goods when you had to brake hard on the road? Because of the inertia, the cargo load would be slide forward and even worse crash on your back window during the sudden stopping. It may cause a terrible hurt on people who seated on the driver’s cab. Roll bars can protect the back window of your truck since it can stop the slide of goods.

To support the truck’s structural integrity during rollovers 

If there is traffic accident happened for example rolling, roll bars can protect the truck cab from caving in. And this is the reason why roll bar is also named as anti-roll bar. The role of roll bar during accident is to disperse outside impact force and provide extra support to the cab therefore truck won’t bend or crumple. But not all of the roll bar have the ability to offer a strong support for the truck, so we must be careful to compare the parameters of roll bars when spring for a roll bar.

As we mentioned above, it can also reduce the over-steering and sway when coming across a turn. In other words it can build up the stability of your vehicle which means a lot for people who have car sick.

Roll bar DIY

Springing for an iron roll bar would be a large expense, we can also choose to DIY. Let’s take a look at the steps of making a roll bar by ourselves.

Step 1 - measure your truck

To measure the height and width of your truck with a tape from the top of the truck hood to the bottom of the back window. And then take a note to record these measurements.

Step 2 - cut up the pipe

Take your pipe, and sufficed into the lengths required. You will certainly require to make use of a pipe cutter to cut through the size of pipe without harming the ends. Make certain that the pipelines that you utilize are solid, and also not rusted at all, as this will certainly impact the final vehicle roll bars that you make.

Step 3 - bend the pipe

Position your pipe into a support, and after that place the other end right into the vise, to make sure that you have around 2 1/2 feet of pipeline prolonging out of the way of the vise. This will certainly be the part of the pipe that is bent. Utilizing your lantern, warm up the area close to the vise, and grab the other end utilizing the flexing device. Bend the pipe swiftly around right into a 90-degree angle. Repeat this process for the various other lengthy pipeline.

Step 4 - build the roll bar

Take your metal bars, and lay them out, to make sure that they create two Ls, with the short bar at opposite ends. Take your short piece, as well as drill a hole into each end of the pipe. Utilizing the drill, press a screw through each long bar of the L pipelines, to make sure that you end up with an 8 shape. Connect the short bars on the ends of the L bars by the screws, and after that add nuts to every of the screws. You can after that sand down the roll bar, and also repaint it prior to installing it on your ruck.

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