wanting to make my push bar into a brush gaurd
 

hey i just put a push bar on my 4runner and now i wanna turn it into a brush gaurd/grille gaurd. does anyone have anyideas or tips for me? i have access to a shop where i could do all the work. heres a pic of it...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...tick1/push.jpg

that would be easy...just get the measurements of a the pipe you need to bend...bend it...then weld both sides on...

exactly what i was thinking. you think adding some black diamond plate under the bottom bar, and then all the way down would be cool? kinda like a skid plate,

like this... push.jpg 2006-03-26

http://www.shutterfly.com/view/pictures.jsp
i mean like this...

if by any chance you get a brush graud instead i am willing to buy your push bar...:)

vin its still not workin-ill sow u how to post pics at school

I've seen alot of these in back home in Arizona

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/5609/pushbar7zv.gif

here's the site I pulled the pic from/much cleaner picture
clickey

I Hope it helps.

Okay better pic to get the idea

http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/7143/pushbarslg8ns.jpg

hope it helps.

and the link click

that is exactly what i want! i was thinking more like this though...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...tick1/idea.jpg

can this all be done without a hydraulic bender? and should it be welded on or bolt on? i like the idea of bolt on so they are removeable.

My dad did it to his, I'll get pics for you later when he gets home from work. Basically he took some steel and bent it with the bender at work (not sure what type they use I'll ask him) and welded it onto the sides. It looks pretty cool.

i think i'm to go with one of these...
http://store.summitracing.com/largei...part=EXP-17000

The Toyota factory brush guards just bolted to what you are calling a push bar (although I wouldn't do any pushing with it if i were you). You may find one a salvage yard. I welded my original brushguard onto a TJM bumper:http://community.webshots.com/photo/...42310107rVHJHT If you look close you can see the orginal bolts that held the bars onto the "push bar".

if you want, i can make the tube in 3d on cad, i can also show all of the angles ect. just need some demensions from u.

id love that! just tell me what demensions you need.

ill need the diameter of the pipe you are using-the dimensions of the existing peice(height with thickness of steel, location of the pipes-you know, the works-) Ill also need the dimension of where u want the straiter part of it to come to. then tell me how many inches i can come back from the begging of the steel pipe for the end wrap.
ill also need to know what with the peices like this{__ __} need to be( up and down with) i know its confusing but to do it acuratly this is what ill need.