Brushguard upgrade
Griffenspade
06-24-2007, 11:34 AM
If you have a brushguard on a truck, and you fill the pipes with a non-compressable fluid, then weld the whole thing sealed, will that increase the structual strenth of the brushguard?
2.2 Straight six
06-24-2007, 12:39 PM
sort of.
don't go thinking that filling 1/16"-wall tubing with oil will give it much more stength. it'll make it a lot heavier.
it'll give a tiny arount more stregth, but how much i don't know. probably not enough to measure a difference. remember that fluid has no load-bearing capacity like a sloid does.
if you want to increase the strength you'll have to either reinforce it or get something like a steel winch bumper.
don't go thinking that filling 1/16"-wall tubing with oil will give it much more stength. it'll make it a lot heavier.
it'll give a tiny arount more stregth, but how much i don't know. probably not enough to measure a difference. remember that fluid has no load-bearing capacity like a sloid does.
if you want to increase the strength you'll have to either reinforce it or get something like a steel winch bumper.
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