shock mounting advice

[broflow]

So be kind to me this is my first cage building endeavor. Its just a trail truck and I realize now since my build is going on 4 years that there are some things that I could of done better on my cage but it will serve its purpose. What my question is I'm thinking I should add some more bracing to the horizontal tube that the top of the shock is mounted on so it won't flex. It is 1.75 .120 wall DOM. In the pictures I added some blue and red lines where I was thinking about adding another tube. Should I add one above and/or below the top mount? I hate to turn it into anymore of a "jungle gym" than it already is.

 

[JoshHefnerX]

Interesting that you put this in pdf format.

You're still using leaf springs? If so your truck isn't going to be 'supported' on that span for very long but it will be taking the weight of your truck occasionally. That top line would make it a lot stronger. Running the lower one will leave you w/ a dead node, you're just transferring that load to the lower bar w/ no strength - not any gain there.

 

[broflow]

Interesting that you put this in pdf format.

You're still using leaf springs? If so your truck isn't going to be 'supported' on that span for very long but it will be taking the weight of your truck occasionally. That top line would make it a lot stronger. Running the lower one will leave you w/ a dead node, you're just transferring that load to the lower bar w/ no strength - not any gain there.

Yes still leaf springs.

They are just shocks mounting to the top of the u-bolt plate on the axle. I would like to do something on the lower side, maybe if I triangulated a tube from the shock tabs back to the rear floor plate and just take out that little gusset.(Yes now I know after more reading since I originally built the cage that little flat gussets like that aren't the best way to gusset a cage).

I wasn't sure how that format would come through I take my pictures with an app called camscan then I can draw on it with another program we use at work.