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By the way, could one of the moderators please move this to the 'modification' forum? No reason we need to continue riling-up the purists and the guys who insist that these things are safe enough as-is...

Here are a few rough sketches to show you guys what I've been thinking about. Not really any more complicated than a rollcage that you might build for a Jeep. Just a little bigger tubing. If any of you want to download these CAD files to take a look at the 3D models, you can open/view them with...

I took some rough dimensions (old cab w/ softtop) and I'm working on some drawings to show you right now. There's not a whole lot of room to go with anything much bigger than 3" diameter tubing, so that's what I'm modeling with right now. I'm going to have to pay to have the tubing bent because...

No reason why you couldn't build an internal/external cage. I had to do that on my Tacoma (put the B-pillar outside/behind the cab) because there wasn't enough room inside the cab. But please-please-please think twice before building an all-external rollcage. Look at where you would run those...

You can increase the safety considerably by just building a nice internal cage. When I get my new cab back from sandblasting/paint, I've got to cut down the 900-series hardtop to fit the narrower deuce cab. Then I'll be ready to start planning/building the rollcage. This is all going to happen...

I don't understand what you're planning on doing with that radiator mount Unforgiven. Are you planning on mounting the radiator behind the cab? Why? This is the last rollcage I built. The rollcage in Mah Deuce is not going to be nearly as intrusive, but it WILL be better than nothing. Take a...

I will be using round tubing for everything except the floor-level support structure. Not planning on mounting the rollcage to the frame. Want to allow the cab to float on the stock mounts. Going to focus on making a safety-capsule in the cab. If the cab separates from the chassis, so be it. My...

Oh, and thanks. I haven't had the parts to make that oil filter mount cut yet

Ah, you don't need CAD skills to build a good rollcage. You just need to know what you're doing. The only reason I was thinking that it might be cool to post CAD blueprint to share, would be so that people could download them and have local fabricators bend tubing (since not many people have...

I've thought a bit about this. In addition to putting rollcages in all of my off-road vehicles, I'm the type of person that would put a rollcage in a sedan, minivan, or just about anything else on four wheels. Think about the fantastic crashes we've seen racecar drivers walk away from, and then...