Pulled the cage out last week to Raptor Line the bed - thought I would do some work on the stock cage while I had it out. I'm slowly getting the TJ ready for some expedition road trips in the future (US to South America), and want some more storage space. Stripped them down to bear metal, welded some 1/4" flat bar between the cage tubes with some holes drilled into them so I could later do some custom bracketry/shelving/toolbox storage, then tossed on a few coats of Majic tractor/tool/implement enamel. Although now I'm thinking I would really love to have the option of taking the doors off while on the trip - which I couldnt really do with full steel doors (where would I put them). Maybe with half-doors I could make custom mounts to store the lowers against these flat bar rails.....who knows.
$10 HVLP gun from Harbor Freight rocked.