Chase Rack Tubing diameter...

[johndjmix]

Whats the diameter of the main tubes used on chase racks? The ADD Venom is the look im going for so if you have that one and cane take a measurement that would be great!

From what ive read 1-3/4 is the most popular, with the tubing haveing .125 wall thickness....

--John

 

[johndjmix]

Probably should have posted this to the mods forum....

 

[KaiserM715]

Probably should have posted this to the mods forum....

Yup. I moved it for you.

 

[johndjmix]

Any ideas guys?

--John

 

[A.I.I.Raciing]

2" for main structure laced with 1.25 and nothing over .095 wall tubing. No need to make a chase rack out of .120 all your doing is adding weight where it's not needed

 

[khcdave]

I make all my tire mounts/racks out of 1.5 .095 wall dom. strong and light weight.

 

[johndjmix]

Really .095. Well, I want to add some hidden receiver tubes to hold some things. Like a small basket for my 2000 watt honda generator. Really I was more thinking of the look I see all over. Love that look and didn't want the tubes OD to be too big or too small.

--John

 

[A.I.I.Raciing]

What does the generator weigh? Reason I ask is that most chase racks could be built out of .049 and be just fine. Hell I know race trucks that have .060 as lacing in their cabs, just make sure the design it on point and it's fine IMO.

If we had to buy material for my chase rack it would have been out of .049, but we already had enough material so I said screw it, let's use what we've got

 

[Bigg50]

I'd set it up to where the generator sits on the bed and there square around it with mounting points to strap it down. That way the rack doesn't have to support the weight of the generator and you can use thinner/lighter tubing.

I would like to see some sort of rack built like this. Every single rack I've seen supports the tires. I'd think it would be possible to build it to where the tires sit upright and sit on the bed of the truck. The rack would just hold them in place and provide mounting points for straps. Would allow the rack to be much lighter IMO.

I hope all this makes sense.

 

[A.I.I.Raciing]

I would like to see some sort of rack built like this. Every single rack I've seen supports the tires. I'd think it would be possible to build it to where the tires sit upright and sit on the bed of the truck. The rack would just hold them in place and provide mounting points for straps. Would allow the rack to be much lighter IMO.

I hope all this makes sense.

Makes complete sense and that's exactly what we did!
Mine is set up where the jack, tote and spare all are sitting on the bed of the truck and either strapped down or bolted down using the bed as support. Since we used the 4 bed bolts to hold the rack down it made more sense to spread the load versus hoping the grade 3 bolts were strong enough to last the lifetime of the rack

It's all in the design and I think most of then racks fail miserably in that department