Wife and kids are out ouf town for the week so I got some work done. This is "Buck". I laid 2"x4" steel retangular tubing onto the Dakota crossmember and clamped it together to get basic dimensions. I then placed the 2"x4" wooden studs on top of that assembly to duplicate the outside diameter and proper length I'll be working with. When Buck came together, it was an easy (and light) way to place it against the frame bottom and mark where I needed to cut. Buck proved that my idea might just work.

Greg