lifting bars diy

Here’s mine.

On the back, we installed rectangular tube inside the frame channel.  I just use a 2x4 to spread across the bottom of the cross member.

Pantera Front Lift Bar and Load Spreader | The De Tomaso Forums (infopop.cc)

One suggestion if you look at the bar closely...  Make one cut in the bar just wide enough so the pinch weld fits into it, and then make the second cut about double the width.  This makes your positioning of the bar more repeatable - the thin cut "indexes" the bar position.

Rocky