4Mogger

Dallas--my neighbor and welder extraordinaire and I have been slowly (like everything else on this rig) designing and tweaking the rear bumper. It began life as a custom bumper I had built by Stout Equipment in New Mexico. It served me well for about 10 years but was not quite up to the task of carrying and protecting a 40 inch tire/wheel combo-- plus I like the trend toward functional AND attractive designs and reasonable stinger type carriers. The main bumper section was retained mostly because it was very well made and I could not even imagine making another equal to it in sheer strength. We just tweeked it to make it fit a little better and began adding tube and gussets. We did shorten up the wrap around sides 5 inches to compensate for the rear axle having been moved back and the big tires. They were recapped and we were able to keep the built in design of the drain and gusset combo which is an idea ahead of its time that keeps the sides strong and lets them drain water and mud out.

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lr9788

mogger, do you have a build up thread for your rig?

4Mogger

We used tube clamps (.500 wall DOM!!!) that I got from Poison Spider Customs to connect the side bars to the rear bumper--that way it can still be removed pretty easily--depends if you consider 12 hex bolts for the clamps and 14 grade 8 bolts for the bumper easy.
The side gussets are functional and were designed on CAD and cut by waterjet.

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4Mogger

The entire stinger swings down to access the tire and hi-lift. It is secured by a pin on each side and also by a clamp to keep everything rattle free.

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lr9788

the 4mogger cut into the metal is an AWESOME touch

4Mogger

Thanks. It took a lot of extra work to make it fit right and be perfectly square since it is so close to the vertical line of the tail light assembly--but it is .250 plate so the letters are nice and strong. You could smack the tip of the "M" with a sledge and it would be fine.

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4rnr

Only a 37 page one on pirate

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1988 stock 4runner, v6, 5spd, soft top.
1990 fj62 stock and mint!
1992 4runner, 3.4, auto, SAS'ed, Marlin USA springs (4"/5"), 37" PBR's, 30 spline Longfields, Hydro assist, dual inchworms (5:1, twin stick, 23 spline, chromo output, 10* clock) 5.29's, lockrite's, custom exo, High angle drivelines drive shafts, 108" wheelbase, Warn hs9500i, Mcintosh/Dynaudio a/v system.

The build up...http://www.yotatech.com/showthread.php?t=74915

lr9788

anyone have a link to that? im not on pirate

westy44runner

click on the buildup sticky at the top page of the toyota trucks section @ PBB. Scroll down and you will find 4Moggers build.

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'86 Toy Flatbed with a few modifications

KyleT

they dont tolerate your kind of mods. no offense to you at all.

they like body damage and lots of it

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1996 Sunfire Red Metallic 4Runner Limited updated 10/31/06
OEM/TRD Lift Kit #1 from Sonoran Steel with 1 Top-out spacer - Lexus GX470 rims - 295/70r17 Nitto Terra Grapplers Yukon 4.88's, E-Locked Rear, Waiting to blow up front diff #2

lr9788

i dont take offense to that at all. i dont have the money to do a lot of mods or the time to fix broken things. i did that once with my first car and will baby this one a little better