building jeep frame
"Bill McKee" wrote in
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Why not aluminum? I have an aluminum boat trailer. Works very well.
3400# boat. The Covette has an aluminum frame as well as the Cadillac
bodied Vette. Look at a Corvette and see what they use. Airplanes
have aluminum frames. And as long as you design well, the flex should
not be a problem.
Boat trailers are rarely twisted the way that off-road vehicles routinely
are.
The same thing applies to Corvettes.
After all, when was the last time that you went rock-crawling with your
'Vette? Grin
How about mud-bogging or bouncing around on deeply-rutted roads?
Jeeps are expected to do all of these and more without any ill effects.
(Getting dirty/muddy is, for a Jeep, a good thing!)
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