What is this piece called? I saw one on a Gladiator and really liked the look.

[Lunentucker]

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[AmosMoses]

???

 

[sbach66]

It's a peacock bar used for garnering attention from fellow motorists. You can bolt on ornamental lights to it and/or your favorite yeti stickers to add to the flare and really boost how impressed everyone on the road is with you. You can also accent it with external tools like jacks, midget carriers and coolaid containers. People will know you're a serious jeeper the more you add to the outside of your "RIG".

Show me on this doll where the light bar hurt you...

 

[ShadowsPapa]

You're getting there - almost as good as the Army Corps of Engineers......

 

[sbach66]

STOP. BOLTING. UNNECESSARY. SH!T. ON. YOUR. JEEP.

DON'T. TELL. PEOPLE. WHAT. TO. DO. WITH. THEIR. JEEP.

 

[Andy29847]

I think the rollbars look really kool. Ignore the smart alecks.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I loved the bar on my 87 Comanche. I farmed at the time and with those lights, and other lights on the front, I could light up an acre of ground at night if the combine broke down, or we got a deer caught in the corn head, whatever. You wanted lights up high for some work.
But in that case, it was also something solid, an actual factory option. I bought my Comanche with the bar, bed mat, running boards and if I recall correctly, a couple of other options.
The ones shown by the OP are attached to the top edge of the bed sides, hardly going to handle any stress at all. The whole bed side would collapse. They are nothing more than a place to hang things or bolt lights to. Anyone calling the JT version a roll bar needs to refer to dictionary or see what happens when a Jeep with one of them actually rolls or a tree lands on it. It's going to get ripped right off the sides of the bed. Do not even consider calling them a roll bar. Roll bars will keep a roof from getting crushed. Those sold for a JT will likely cause more damage than they prevent.

 

[Moabite]

Do not even consider calling them a roll bar.

Yup...Jeep stopped calling them roll bars quite a few years ago. I still have the brochure from the Scrambler I bought in 1982. According to the brochure, it was equipped with "hefty 3" roll bars." At some point, Jeep started using the term "sport bar."

I didn't want a full rack for my Gladiator since it might limit what I could carry in the bed...but I needed an elevated location to mount the antenna for my SAR radio. The DV8 Chase Rack was the perfect solution, and it also provided a place to mount lighting often used to light up our staging areas, especially when the bed of the Jeep is used as a Command Post. On one incident, I had to back up for about a mile on a very narrow, winding, mountain road in deep snow. The rear-facing, high-mounted Rigid Industries scene light made that task much easier.

Who's to say what is "necessary" on a Jeep? Even if your Jeep is just a peacock on Pasadena pavement, bolt anything you want to it, ornamental or functional. But don't get upset if I refuse to wave at your angry bird.

 

[AmosMoses]

Get the bar and then get this front end from oracle:

 

[GT6]

I’ve got the Tyger sport bar. I like the look it adds. I’ve also got the Tyger trifold. The downside to the sport bar is you can’t access your entire bed. I’m still looking for a more compatible cover.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Yup...Jeep stopped calling them roll bars quite a few years ago. I still have the brochure from the Scrambler I bought in 1982. According to the brochure, it was equipped with "hefty 3" roll bars." At some point, Jeep started using the term "sport bar."

I didn't want a full rack for my Gladiator since it might limit what I could carry in the bed...but I needed an elevated location to mount the antenna for my SAR radio. The DV8 Chase Rack was the perfect solution, and it also provided a place to mount lighting often used to light up our staging areas, especially when the bed of the Jeep is used as a Command Post. On one incident, I had to back up for about a mile on a very narrow, winding, mountain road in deep snow. The high-mounted Rigid Industries scene light made that task much easier.

Who's to say what is "necessary" on a Jeep? Even if your Jeep is just a peacock on Pasadena pavement, bolt anything you want to it, ornamental or functional. But don't get upset if I refuse to wave at your angry bird.

Yup - what you said.
I need a cover worse - but if I didn't, I'd have a bar like that to attach things to.
And yeah, the high mounted lights like I had were danged handy.

 

[sbach66]

Yup - what you said.
I need a cover worse - but if I didn't, I'd have a bar like that to attach things to.
And yeah, the high mounted lights like I had were danged handy.

The Blackhorse bar I bought will accommodate some trifold soft covers like the Tyger that I have. You obviously can't fold anything open other than the third panel, but it works (have to strap the cover to the bar to travel if you have it open, but I'm OK with that).

 

[AzGladius]

What would you use that Doohickey for?

I've seen a couple with Molle panels on the side which makes a small and useful area to mount Roto/Fuelpax without having a whole bed rack.

 

[Uparms]

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