Plate Sizing for Shock Mounts

[nharvey]

I am building a bed cage on my 94 yota running F62 deavers with Total Chaos Shackles and such. Picking up 16" triple bypasses from king this week. I am running the shocks outside the frame rail mounting to a T100 rear dif. Using 1 3/4 .120 dom tubing for cage. Just trying to figure out the sizing of plate i should use for the sock mounts. And for my clarification since i am new to fabing cold rolled steel is stronger than hot rolled but cold only goes up to 10ga. This is what i was told at IMS. Could be totally wrong though. little clarification would help. Thanks.

[BajaFand]

You can get up to 3/16" in a pickled finish that is not hot rolled material. The pickle will sand or Scotchbrite off. Allot of people use no thicker than .120" if they are using 4130 material sometimes with doubler plates and sometimes without, it would depend on how will designed they are. On my Bronco since I used cold rolled material I used 3/16" to mount my shocks. That may seem thick so some but I only used a small washer that I made as a doubler and also my shock mounts are not very big so the weight of that material wasn't a big concern.

[loufish]

You can get CR thicker then 10 ga...maybe not plate, but bar stock.
I like to keep CR bar in these stock sizes:
.125" x 1", 1-1/2" , 2"' and the same widths in .1875"

Makes it much easier for doing tabs.

[nharvey]

I just built shock tabs to mount to my axel out of two pieces of ten gage cold rolled double sheered. looks like the attachment. Do you think this fully welded is beffy enough to withstand the stress.

[philofab]

I've always liked to build shock mounts a little thicker but doubled .134 wall should be ok. Did you put anything between the two tabs for side loading?

[nharvey]

I was thinking about running a little bit of ten gage in between the two mounts perpendicular coming up close to the bottom of the shock end.

[movindirt]

These are the current lower rear shock mounts on my Ranger. It has tons of miles on it including Baja with zero issues. They were to just get me by until I got some better mounts built but as you can see that never happened. Sorry about the one pic, just didn't have good light... The tabs are .1875" cr mild steel.