Bumper Buildin'

[robz95xj]

i got sick of hitting my frt tow hooks on everything and my frt bumper was starting to get twisted pretty good, so spent all day yesterday at nhrockers house building a new frt bumper for my Jeep, we had a basic idea of what we wanted and went from there, the mounting plates are 1/4" steel plate that are held on by 14 bolts total, center section is 2x5 3/16 wall box tube, end pieces are 2x2 box tube and end plate are 3/16 plate, the bumper fits very snug to the frame rails and tucks up nice, heres pics of the day

start of the day involved taking of the stock bumper and steering box bolts, wich all 3 bolts and stupid alum spacer came out in one piece



next up was mounting plates, for a template we used a outer brace i got from Mitch when he scrapped his red Jeep




also relocated the vacum canister at that point, fits right behing the batt


center piece being cut


and getting tacked into place


lookin good



also decided to make a inner plate for the pass side to help spread the load


outer pieces tacked into place



2nd outer piece welded up


time to reinforce the dring tabs


outer plates welded in


and gusseted


all welding done


i still need to drill the holes for the drings and enlarge the back mounting hole, then clean up the bumper and paint/prime it, we started on it around noon and got done at 1am that included a hour long lunch break, for a one off first time bumper im very pleased with the results

[fat_kid]

looks good, are you leaving room for a winch?

[robz95xj]

no winch in this one, its more less for protection and better approach angle, will prob toss together a winch bumper in the future though

[fat_kid]

final pics on the jeep?

[robz95xj]

Originally Posted by fat_kid

final pics on the jeep?

that will be next weekend got a little grinding and drilling left on the bumper, then paint

[Memphis]

Very cool

[JoseCR7]

looks cool dude, gonna go with a black finish?

[Ford88]

Cool shit rom.

[robz95xj]

Bumper is painted and on




still need to go out and buy bolts for it tomorow

[raif_nijem]

Nice well done

[Soup]

looks good, now run into something and test its durability.

[Memphis]

^yes, test it out on the honda

[v_dub_ya]

Very nice looking Rob. Looks to engineered well and some dam good looking welds from the pics. Did you do the welding?

[EVILZ33]

dang that looks good. did you install a flux capacitor in the jeep too? i see that the pics are from 2084.

[Soup]

What are you getting for Xmas?