J Mills Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 This is a bit of a different question than the other recent X-bar thread; I want to understand how high the bottom of the X can be from the sill bar. We are running the continuous bar from about 18" up the main hoop to near the sill bar on the A-pillar bar. My question is are you allowed to have a gap between the sill bar and X-bar on the A-pillar bar, or must these points intersect? I've attached a few pics to show what I mean. I'm also trying to understand if there is any required minimum gap from top of door to top of x-bars. I don't see anything in the rules, but want to know if there is a rule of thumb here. Thanks for all the info so far, really appreciate everyone helping the new guys! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogren-Engineering Posted March 31, 2017 Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 If there is some space between them you can weld them nicer and the section may be a little stronger by having more " square inches of involvement". More is better for cages. You should still have another driver door bar whether or not the sill bar counts. IMHO . Cant tell about the door bars and the rule RE separation of the tubes. If you use only the 2 shown I am pretty sure they are supposed to be 6 in between them . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Mills Posted March 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 We're running the X bar setup, so we'll have the "brace" sides of the x above that in the front. From my understanding of the rules it sounds like it should be a 6" gap OR they should meet at the same point. It sounds like the "braces" just don't really count as bars per the other thread. Thanks, J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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