hey i had a simple idea,when making your own strut braces,has anyone thought of simply removing the top hat from an old strut,removing the studs,then flipping it upside down for the round piece over the strut? it's a mirror image of the one on the car,and could be used an attachment point for the brace,with some pieces welded on. it's such a simple idea i dk why i didn't think of it before,i have four dead strut assemblies in my junk,i already have all the attachment points made up. i'll take them to the automotive tech class at school monday,and let them use the spring compressor to take the springs off. as far as the hatch,i was going to use flat wing spar aluminum for the brace itself, it would be a wide brace,but fit under the cover in the hatch,and being an aluminum I beam,it would be extremly strong. at the center i was going to attach two aluminum brackets, and a couple of aluminum braces from the center to the corners of the hatch,i was going to put quick disconnects on those braces, so i could pull them if something big needed to go in the hatch area.
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