Passenger Side Blowout Cage
Building the plumbing blowout cage gave me so much pride….I decided to build one for the passenger side (you didn’t know I was a poet too)!
So with the left over materials I had from the plumbing cage and some 1” and 3/4” square tubing I had lying around, I proceeded to fabricate a passenger side blowout cage.
I know that the passenger side isn’t as vulnerable as the driver’s side on most TM’s, but on mine I do have a box with my SurgeGuard surge protector located right behind the tire and mud flap (image 1505). Although it did withstand the “great blowout of 9/2015”, it did mark things up a bit (you can see where the tire tread left it’s marks when it blew… image 1503). Who knows how many hits it could take before being dashed to pieces. I don’t want that. So hence the cage for the other side of the trailer.
Everything was pretty straight forward on this and I designed it to look much like the other one (image 1820) with two contact points, one on the frame and the other on the frame outrigger behind the tire that the mud flap is attached to (images 1822, 1823, 1824). For these contact points I used the same perforated angle steel with the pre drilled holes and slots and another piece of the expanded steel on the bottom (bbq grill….. image 1821). Everything was welded accept for the grill which I bolted onto the bottom (image 1830). I primed it and painted it black to match the other side (images 18331, 1832) and then screwed it to the frame and outrigger with some Tek screws in front of the surge protector box (images 1833, 1834).
Now I have a set of cages to help protect my trailer should I ever (heaven forbid!!) have another blowout. Let’s hope that it doesn’t happen for a long long time!