tacojeff

I wanted to post pictures of my build for everyone. The mounts always seem to be what their aren't many pictures so I tried to make mine obvious. I have learned a lot from other peoples builds, so feel free to ask if you have questions. I chose not to do a brace to the ends of the bumper because it seemed like overkill. The plate is all 3/16" plate and it weighs just over 100lbs.

All plastic removed and the frame end caps cut off.



Piece of 2"x3" tube notched it into the frame rails and then fish plates on the ends




Main mounting brackets (3/8" plate), bolted through the frame in the rear and 2 bolts to the stock tow hook points. It also is tight against the body mount bracket to prevent them from ever pushing back into the radiator. Channel on the bottom for strength and protecting the bolt heads. There is room for a winch in there, I just need to add a support plate and cut the hole for it.




Drivers side tacked in place.


Hard to see, but the lower center section has 3 holes that mirror the shape of the grill, and there are 2 mounting tabs the bolt through the new front cross member.





I will give much credit to the Milwaukee metal cutting circular saw I bought for this project. It will cut any thickness of metal with no heat, no sparks, and a mirror finish in about double the time it takes to cut the same thickness of wood.

Leviticus6432

Nice bumper!!! and also nice saw lol

stockwell45

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Looking good!

bttrs

clean and simple, i like your style. nice build

Dreidel

ok so that is one of the coolest homemade plate bumper so far, do you buy chance have dimentions on the plate you welded together

tacojeff

Thanks. I don't have dimensions other than going out an measuring them. Its really just trial and error to get everything right. The top plate is traced off the stock bumper then the flat front plate was the width of the frame rails and height up to the grill. If you want actual plate cutout measurements, id be happy to fill in the dimensions on a drawing but I'm not going to do the drawing myself just to give away.

TyDestroyerOfLight

Looks awesome!

aa1911

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Thanks for the good pics, want to do a similar build on my 2nd gen when i finally get around to getting a new welder and some better metalwork tools. I will be getting one of those saws for certain, pretty sweet...

Very nice armor

tacojeff

I used that saw to do all the cuts on my front and rear bumper before the blade went bad. Next to a welder it is by far the most used metal working tool I own.

aa1911

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very cool. I plan on doing about the same design as you did with the addition of some tubing hoops similar to my ARB to protect the lights and grill more. Will be putting a winch in that one full time also.

I'm also planning to modify my ARB on my taco to put a 2" receiver on it as my winch is in a cradle; then I can hook it up to either end, or leave it home when not out on the trails. I have enough wiring to cover both ends.

will need some betta tools for certain to tackle those, seeing that saw just gave me a new puzzle piece.

lastname_firstname

great writeup awesome bumper, Im sitting on the plate or tube decision right now

allend51

nice cleanest looking homemade bumper ive seen yet real burly looking to

RiverRat Cargel

Mad skills thats looks great, and much more fun then just buying an ARB... If you sent me picture with detailed dimensions i could make an AutoCad drawing for anyone else who wants to build there own. Only if you want to give away your secrets of course. ;-)

simpleman703

man that turned out sweet. coming from a welder by trade you did one hell of a job way to go

yotaman284

I'm new to yotatech and i am amazed at all the things y'all fab. Great looking bumper