I recently purchased a marlin crawler rear bumper for my 87 4 runner and i love it. Looks really good and it seems to be pretty strong as well. I was thinking of geeting the front bumper with the stinger as well. Does anyone have any expeirence with their front bumpers? What i really want is to see the bumper on some trucks or 4 runners. The only picture i have seen is the one on their website. That would be great if anyone could help me out.
Thanks, Bryan

 

justposted this on another thread, it 's a better bumper than marlins, at least IMHO

 

hmm Ive had bumpers from both, I currently have the marlin rear bumper on my 4Runner and I had BigRocks build me a front bumper for my old 4Runner that I sold. Both are great but the BigRocks front bumper has better mounting points, at least if you drop your truck off at their shop and have them weld on new mounting points (theyre only a couple miles from my house). Either way Marlin products are top notch, so if you like the bumper I say go for it, it will look great on your truck and serve its purpose well.

 

That is a nice bumper but it looks "unfinished" other than the paint. Is it the DOM or HREW tubing? I have a Badland Bumpers DOM bumper that was more expensive but has diamondplate decking on top, and Jeff actually builds mounts for the turn signals so no zipties!
I also have one of their rear bumpers with the tire carrier.