Who has made their own trans crossmember?

Seeing a post of Dummy's trans crossmember just made me think about this. I'm almost done modifying my original crossmember for a SM420 mated to the original D18.

As luck would have it, I just took shipment of a shiny new JD2 Model 4 hydraulic tubing bender. Right now, I have one die for bending 1-3/4" tubing on a 5.5" radius. This setup is going to help me make a cage for my A1 but I'm planning to make a new trans crossmember as a starter project first.

Does anyone have any pics of theirs? I figured at least Neptco and Jeepenstein have gotta have something...

Gracias!

 

Here's mine
The first pic is from the back lookin forward and the other is self explanitory.

 

Unfortunatly I dont have any I believe member FugginJim has some of the one he made up though. Might PM him, havnt seen him on much lately...

 

I was thinking some square tube dies would be nice though I figger I could make a pretty nice tranny mount with some 1-3/4" even though ithe tubing might be a little big. Makes me wonder what Dummy used for his...

Christian, you out there?

 

1-3/4 inch, 0.120-wall DOM with poly bushings. It's overkill, but it's not too big. I used some 3/16-inch plate stitch welded to the tubing and folded over with a dead blow hammer (so it wouldn't mushroom the metal) as a skid plate. Hole-sawed the skid plate for the t-case drain hole.

If I was to rebuild it I'd most likely use 1.5-inch, 0.120-wall.

The one I built for my Ramcharger was 1-3/4-inch, 0.120-wall. The one I built for my CJ-6 was simply the stock X-member that was modified for a GM tranny mount with some 3-16-inch plate.

 

I just modified the original crossmember. I keeped the transfer case mount in the original position.
This was easier for me than tho make a whole new one.

http://groups.msn.com/ScottShannonMilliner/sm465.msnw