GenRight B-Pillar Chop

[jhackathorne]

His whole project is more buggy than anything. He is installing the GenRight roll cage which will be significantly stronger than the stock 'roll cage'.

https://www.jlwranglerforums.com/forum/threads/genright-roll-cage-install.108967/

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[chevymitchell]

I have seen other folks doing this or talking about it.

My question is to you, WHY? What do you accomplish? Not a 4 guy at all, old school 2 dr and just wondering what purpose this serves...thank you.

The why:

When you have a full cage, you can remove the B-Pillar and now the cage becomes a slider. All of those butt-clinching, off-camber, am I going to hit my top on the tree moments are no longer a concern.

It also allows for a better roll-over condition where the roll over will go from cage to tires.

Aesthetics, sure. It looks good, too, but there is a highly practical and functional reason for this mod.

If you look at the design of the GenRight cage, you'll see the A to D pillar bar is smooth all the way. If the B-Pillar remained in place, you would absolutely destroy the body.

 

[chevymitchell]

I don't think it serves any purpose other than aesthetics. On the 2 door, there is no B-pillar body panel, just the B-pillar roll cage. Stock you all go from door directly to hardtop. This just gets rid of that transition.

I guess you can say it would help with visibility, which may be a stretch. After you get to half doors and top off, you have quite a bit of visibility.

See reply ^, post #47.

 

[chevymitchell]

How do they attach to the cage at the top?

There's a bracket that attaches the top portion to the cage. I'll take a pic of the bracket once I get the cage and the rest of the interior put in.

 

[Old Jeeper]

The why:

When you have a full cage, you can remove the B-Pillar and now the cage becomes a slider. All of those butt-clinching, off-camber, am I going to hit my top on the tree moments are no longer a concern.

It also allows for a better roll-over condition where the roll over will go from cage to tires.

Aesthetics, sure. It looks good, too, but there is a highly practical and functional reason for this mod.

If you look at the design of the GenRight cage, you'll see the A to D pillar bar is smooth all the way. If the B-Pillar remained in place, you would absolutely destroy the body.

That is what I like to hear...just the engineer in me, whatever we do serves a functional purpose. Thank you for your reply!

When I had my shop: "SavageSun 4x4" this was on my business card:

"Built to get you there...
Engineered to get you BACK!"

 

[chevymitchell]

That is what I like to hear...just the engineer in me, whatever we do serves a functional purpose. Thank you for your reply!

When I had my shop: "SavageSun 4x4" this was on my business card:

"Built to get you there...
Engineered to get you BACK!"

That's a great line. I like it. I try to stay functional and practical, but every once in a while an extra LED light will find its way in there for no reason at all. Lol. @conFUcius

 

[Old Jeeper]

That's a great line. I like it. I try to stay functional and practical, but every once in a while an extra LED light will find its way in there for no reason at all. Lol. @conFUcius

What I found over my many years of wheeling was that very few don't make it to the trail. When they cross that curb that's when the problems start showing up. Many do not come prepared to begin with.

WAY back in my Corvette racing days I won and I won often. I never forget the first time I went heads up against a Shelby Cobra and I bet him like a rented mule. So at the end they are passing out trophy's and stuff and A guy stick a microphone in my face and says. You are the big winner today, you bet everyone you went up against. What is your secret? I replied: "I came to race!"

Same goes for Jeeps and the offroad. Don't show unless you are prepared. The worst folks, are the guys that Trailer their rigs. They do that to try and impress, but my Exp with them is they do that because they BREAK and its the ONLY way they are going to get that Jeep back home.

So the next you spank someone on that trail and later you sitting around the campfire and some asks how did you spank us so hard?

"I came prepared"

 

[conFUcius]

"I came prepared"

@chevymitchell - This is why I have so many lights… maybe it’s a cloudy day or the sun just fizzles out all of a sudden

 

[Old Jeeper]

@chevymitchell - This is why I have so many lights… maybe it’s a cloudy day or the sun just fizzles out all of a sudden

Being prepared saved the night.

Being prepared is not a question looking forward in anticipation but rather looking back over time and remembering when you stepped in a bucket of shit on the way to a job interview and did not have a spare pair of shoes.

Remembering the ole axiom History repeats or parallels itself and shit happens.


Years ago At Ft Hood Tx, I went over to see a good friend who was a Capt in a Tank outfit. I wanted to see the ne M1 Abrams tank. We walk down to the Motor Pool and WOW, how cool vs the M 60. I am not a tanker just Infantry Capt.

His folks had been working on it and went to drive it up to the shop, as they drove off 2 Nylon Ties fell off the back of it. I pick them up and good grief these things are heavy, thick, long my Capt friend keep them they are new one and Mil-Spec, especially for the M 1 tank.

I toss them in Jeep. This was around 1980-82 some time.

Time and Jeeps march on. and those Ties went from Jeep to truck to car and on and on. Then around 2008 I am leading run in Pritchett Canyon, Moab. One of the guys on the run has a CJ, and well built it is, but he hits a rock and snaps off the bottom of the 2 U bolts holding his driver's side front axle to the leaf spring. Suddenly all he has a 2 wheel drive and and axle that is shifting back and forth.

How the hell is he going to get out of P Canyon like that?

I go to my TJR and pull out those 2 Ties, get under his Jeep, criss-cross then over spring and axle and we make the rest of the Canyon from there.

Around 26+ years and I used both of them to help out a Jeeper in a real bind.

 

[chevymitchell]

B-Pillar attachment bracket.

Got it lined up and it’s rock solid. The gap is larger than I wanted, but I’ll just get a little thicker piece of rubber to put in the middle.

Just got to get this thing painted and it’ll look/work great.

 

[Tncdrew]

Outstanding!
Nice work.
Will you also be running a set of half doors on the Train?

 

[chevymitchell]

Outstanding!
Nice work.
Will you also be running a set of half doors on the Train?

Thanks man.

Yeah, all I’ll run is the half doors. I used the full doors to line everything up since the door is more solid. I don’t have a full set of full doors. The passenger side doors were wrecked in the roll over.

Just finished test fitting the half doors with uppers installed a second ago. On to the other side now.

 

[yokramer]

Any concern that the belt is bolted to the removable b-pillar? Surprised they didnt make a relocation bracket to the cage.

 

[chevymitchell]

Any concern that the belt is bolted to the removable b-pillar? Surprised they didnt make a relocation bracket to the cage.

The adjuster can be mounted to the cage when the b-pillar is not in use.

I'll end up with 4 point harnesses at some point before the trip to CO in July.

 

[jbcrane]

Thanks man.

Yeah, all I’ll run is the half doors. I used the full doors to line everything up since the door is more solid. I don’t have a full set of full doors. The passenger side doors were wrecked in the roll over.

Just finished test fitting the half doors with uppers installed a second ago. On to the other side now.

Super cool. I can only dream of such projects... living vicariously through these posts. Thanks for taking us along for the ride.

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