Where to get hardware for diy limb risers

[jimmy986]

With the lack of options for limb risers on the gladiator, and the only ones available seeming pretty overpriced for what they are, where are good places to find the hardware. The two limiting factors is I’d like the plates/mount points for the cable to be black and rounded. Most brackets and plates tend to be silver and rectangular. The cable, turnbuckles, rings etc seem easy enough to find. It’s really just the plate for the hood and the top of windshield that are giving me issues. I’m a woodworker and don’t have much experience with metal so making those pieces myself would require tools I don’t have, I believe.

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[mx5red]

With the lack of options for limb risers on the gladiator, and the only ones available seeming pretty overpriced for what they are, where are good places to find the hardware. The two limiting factors is I’d like the plates/mount points for the cable to be black and rounded. Most brackets and plates tend to be silver and rectangular. The cable, turnbuckles, rings etc seem easy enough to find. It’s really just the plate for the hood and the top of windshield that are giving me issues. I’m a woodworker and don’t have much experience with metal so making those pieces myself would require tools I don’t have, I believe.

I’m of no help on the hardware but metal is no different than wood.
I’ve fabricated a ton of stuff using a dremel and hand tools... an angle grinder is like $40.
If you have experience woodworking than shaping some rectangular brackets shouldn’t be an issue.

a $50-90 kit from Amazon or Hauk may not be a bad value depending on the value of your time.
My .02$

 

[jimmy986]

I would say there is quite a bit of difference between metal and wood. The biggest being that cutting a piece of wood to the shape I want would probably take me less than 10 seconds. And another difference, I have what I need to work with wood.

that being said, it’s not just price. I don’t like the cake set up with the Hauk, so I would be buying it for just the mounting hardware and buying other parts anyway.

 

[Hank_]

I’m of no help on the hardware but metal is no different than wood.
I’ve fabricated a ton of stuff using a dremel and hand tools... an angle grinder is like $40.
If you have experience woodworking than shaping some rectangular brackets shouldn’t be an issue.

a $50-90 kit from Amazon or Hauk may not be a bad value depending on the value of your time.
My .02$

Ditto on this. Small metal brackets are easy to fabricate and I did the same for my Jeep Rubicon JK. I picked up some flat stock at the local hardware store and used my grinder to make the shape I wanted. Not hard at all.

Hank

 

[jimmy986]

I’ve just never done that. So I would have to buy a grinder or borrow one, which I assume someone I know has one. In terms of getting the angle of the bracket to fit in the door and be the right size to screw into the body, is it difficult? Would you have to bend the plate yourself? And where do you find black plates? Everything I can find at Lowe’s is silver.

 

[Hank_]

I’ve just never done that. So I would have to buy a grinder or borrow one, which I assume someone I know has one. In terms of getting the angle of the bracket to fit in the door and be the right size to screw into the body, is it difficult? Would you have to bend the plate yourself? And where do you find black plates? Everything I can find at Lowe’s is silver.

I just painted my plates black when I was done making them. If you have a vice and a hammer you can get most angles correct or very close. I made brackets that went to my hood latch and at that time I had a light bar so in hooked the other end there. With a little patience and very few tools you can make a quality set.

Hank

 

[ArchieHenson]

I see. Thanks for the tip, Hank!

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