Dude... I've been there many times and feel your pain! Cool to see someone share the mistakes with the process. Cage looks good.

So, here is how I bend odd bends with odd copes: 1. use a piece of brake line, copper line or something similar to work out my bends, length and angles. the tricky part is the line needs to be in the center of where your tube needs to end up. Measure your die radius as well. for example if the die radius is 6" and you're bending 1/4" line, you need to wrap it around something with a 5 7/8" radius otherwise your bends in the cage tube come out wrong. 2. mark the start and stop of each bend on the brake line then flatten it out dead straight. do a test bend in your tube bender and figure out where it starts bending the tube and mark it. I will usually just add 2" to either end of the tube for the notch, 3 inches or more if its a really steep notch like on your c-b pillar connector tube on the c pillar. transfer the measurements and bend the tube up. having the start and stop from the brake line allows a bit of adaptability on how you bend it. I've done parts with 4+ bends that had to be perfect this way. 3. notch accordingly. make sure you know how much you added to the ends of the tube. this makes it much, much easier to cut off the correct amount and with it mocked up with brake line, you know when the notches are done, it will fit. don't be afraid to wedge the tube in something and tweak the bend a few degrees to fine tune it. truck receiver hitches work well for this. 1.75" .120 wall bends surprisingly easy. the other option (and likely what I would have done with your seat belt bar) would be to do the math on it to calculate the length. a bit of trig would work out the bend positions super easy on a bar with two bends and a known width. just assume the tube will shrink and stretch equal amounts on the bend, it will get you in the ballpark. they tend to stretch a bit, but that just makes the ends a bit longer anyway.

Your doing a killer job!

outrageously awesome job, can't wait till it's done

Love the fastback look!

Cage looks sick! Nice work.

That is a BEAST rig man!

Nice work! I dig the look of the cage and the "X" bar in the back. From someone who's never done it before building a full cage can seem pretty intimidating but you did a great job!

Don’t stop. It’s vary interesting project and we are waiting next video. 👍

That's an awesome cage! Definitely beefy enough to keep ya safe in the worst rollovers.

Looking awesome

Never commented, but that cage is 🔥🔥🔥 good work man. Set backs are part of any major project. The outcome is awesome

Looks so rad

Looks awesome sir keep up the good work

Great job!

That blue color is awesome

Looks great

Looks awesome! I feel your pain. I was so frustrated building things on our jeep. But its great learning in the process. It's just hard to see at the time lol.

That shirt is EPIC, I need one.

man just found this channel by chance. i acquired a yj and was looking at a cage later down the road. i notice this video is 2yrs ago. anythings you wish you would have done diffrent on design now looking back? i really dig the look and want to mimic it

I feel the pain . Tubing is $$$ .. Great job though like the look... Sure looks to take a tumble or two !

Anxious to see your plan or mock up for dash/gauges.

Good weight for such a strong frame. I have a standard YJ on 33 wheels with a winch of 1380 (3042 lb) kg .

Get yourself a license for Bend-Tech. I like Bend-Tech Pro to design full assemblies, but even just the basic version (EZ) will let you map out the tube with bends and it'll spit out the measurements, bend angle, plane, everything. Saves TONS of tube over a few projects. Pro also includes a program to print out notch templates to make it REALLY easy to get good fitup.

so many of my videos I screw stuff up and have to salvage it on my YJ hahaha so I relate HARD!!!!!

I actually found your channel from sam's channel 😂

This gave me flashbacks of screwing up tube 😂

YAY, less close-up face and less talking. Except it was almost all close-up face and talking. But salute for not giving up with a crappy bar. What you ended up with is great! I like Sam;s channel, I found you through him. It seems odd to have that much side-to-side difference in weight.

What brand seats and what seat mounting brackets you used ty and the yj looks awesome 👏🏻

The X bars look like a good spot to hit your head?

Lookin good man. You gonna do some A pillar grab handles? Maybe some over head handles too? That’d look sick. Shit you should go full exo cage lol Btw are this battle born gatekeeper bead locks? I got some my self they’re awesome and very reasonably priced

front half frame kit from ?

4500 or 4800 lbs. I might be closer once you add armor.. lol

My shit box is at 4380#