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FatMouse Off-Road bumpers !!!
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It was a hot July afternoon, during one of our weekend trips. My buddy Cesc and me were having a cold beer, admiring the mountains, when suddenly this conversation came out:
.-Me: You know buddy, I would like so much to learn to weld... .-Cesc: Well I know a little bit, but if we have to learn seriously, letīs go for it !!! We continued drinking our beers quietly, also admiring our Toys, and I had no better idea than saying... : I would also like very much to have a new front bumper, but there is nothing exactly what I want here in Spain. I have it all on my mind. It also must have a winch, off course... Suddenly, without saying any word, we had a deep eye contact (not a gay one...), so we realized that both of us were thinking the same. .-Cesc : And what about if we fab them ??? The next weekend we sat in front of Cescīs PC and started drawing some ideas ( unfortunatelly, we have more for the future ...;-) For me, it was very clear that the bumper had to start inspired on Front Range Off Road bumpers style (unfortunately not sold in Spain and very expensive to import...). We took of the original front bumper and started taking measurements and putting them into the pc. Attachment 181694 Attachment 181695 Attachment 181696 After many, many, many hours, and when I say many, means that we sat many ours in front of the pc, finally we had the final design. Attachment 181697 Attachment 181698 Attachment 181699 Attachment 181700 Cesc take care of the technical part, calculous, structures, drawing, etc... Meanwhile I sat next to him, with my stupid face, looking how this guy worked with CAD. From time to time I opened my mouth just to say: .-Me: Can we round this edge ??? .-Me: Can we move the hole ??? .-Me: Are you sure this is going to fit in our rigs ??? Sometimes computers make mistakes... (I was wrong...). On the next step we got all metal pieces cut by laser. 8 mm thick for the center box, and 4 mm thick for the wings of the bumper. (Total weight of the bumper 36kg, and 31kgs the winch) Attachment 181701 Attachment 181702 After we got all the pieces of the puzzle, the funny part of the project started. Here was, where I got to support my buddy with something more than ideas. So, lets start to weld. My brother Willy came to give us some advices (he is an expert welder). On date and at the exact hour I was prepared to start my adventure. I spent the previous night, watching weld tutorial videos. This was like watching porn movies, without having any real sex experience yet... ;-) After first indications, my brother gave to me some pieces of metal to feel the welder. Seems to be that they liked the welds, cause they directly gave me part of the bumper to weld. So after that, I was officially baptized as the welder of the team ;-) Attachment 181703 Professional welders, please donīt puke !!! Hope they are not so bad for a newbee ... Attachment 181704 Attachment 181705 Attachment 181706 Some pieces were pre-curved before positioning them, as for example the corner plates of the bumper. Cesc, fabbed a stamp for those pieces. (He is a proffesional matrixer ). Attachment 181707 Attachment 181708 Iīm going to explain the funny story about our brand (we are not pros, and this is just a hobby for us). While we were designing the bumper, we had the strong feeling, that we liked so much what we were drawing. And Cesc commented: Man !!! this will look like a pro bumper, we should have a brand, hahahahahahahaha !!!! Me.- You are not going to believe me, but I have the name.... FatMouse !!! A few days before while I was smoking a tunning cigarette, at night , watching the stars; I had a vision... If I sometime create a company (donīt missunderstand me, I am a surgeon, way to far related to the off road industry) it wil be called FatMouse. .-Cesc: Man I like the name...FatMouse Off-Road !!! From today and on every thing we fab for our trucks, will have our own brand. We were just kidding ... Five minutes later Cesc gave the order to the pc to draw the Fatmouse brand on our bumpers, hahahahahahahahahahaha. And this is the story about our brand. So, kids... Donīt smoke !!!! ;-) Attachment 181709 Slowly, pieces were forming the bumper, and somebody was loosing to much saliva .... Attachment 181710 Attachment 181711 Cesc and Willy working on the bumper... Attachment 181712 Attachment 181713 Finally this started, to seem a bumper... Attachment 181714 Serial production !!! Attachment 181715 Attachment 181716 Thanks to Cesc, we had all machinery and tools we needed. Watch video: http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=KZCc5qRaOy0 Detail of the corner light support. Attachment 181717 We decided to do some mods, during the fabrication. We put this piece of perforated metal sheet to hide the radiator and lines... Attachment 181718 We added reinforcements to the bumper, cause we had nothing better to do , hahahaahahahahahahaha !!!!!! Attachment 181719 Attachment 181720 Final adjustments !!! Attachment 181721 We went out to the street to admire it with day light !!! Attachment 181722 Attachment 181723 Attachment 181724 Attachment 181725 Will it resist ?????? Attachment 181726 We rounded edges. Attachment 181727 This is a detailed picture of the holes we made, to fit a cut-off for the positive of the winch. Attachment 181728 After we polished all the details on the metal, we applied epoxy putty with little alloy fragments in it, to correct imperfections. Attachment 181729 Attachment 181730 After, I learned that I donīt have to apply so much putty on the bumper... Gosh Damn it !!! This putty became so hard !!!! Hahahahahahahaha !!!! Attachment 181731 Attachment 181732 We finished !!!! Now to the painter ... Attachment 181733 Satisfaction faces !!! Nothing like creating with your own hands, while spending a grate time !!! Attachment 181734 After we got the bumpers from the painter, we mounted the winch to the bumper, corner lights and cut-off. We turned the solenoid box 180š, to let the winch plugg free (we thought the connector was on top of the box, but model was changed) not a big problem at all. Attachment 181735 Attachment 181736 Attachment 181737 Detail of the corner light mount. Attachment 181738 Attachment 181739 Before fitting the bumper, we cut part of the inner plastic fenders, and trimmed the metal sheet under the lights. Attachment 181740 And this is the final result !!! Attachment 181741 Attachment 181742 Attachment 181743 Attachment 181744 Attachment 181745 Attachment 181746 Attachment 181747 Attachment 181748 We also fabbed a new cb antenna mount. Attachment 181749 Attachment 181750 Soon I will put more pictures of Cescīs Toy. It was dark for him and pictures were crap... Hope you like it. Feel free to criticize !!! This is not he end... soon we will fab something new hehehehehehehehehee !!!! To be continued ... Thanks for reading.(Sorry for my english...):hillbill: Cheers !!! :guitar: Facu ;-) |
That looks awesome. So awesome.
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that bumper is a work of art!!
really really beautiful I want one (hell I want two) on my 1st gen pu. |
Very nice :)
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This is quite possibly the best Yotatech thread ever... and the final product is amazing. Great work!
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wow thats cool, where did you get that bash plate on the yellow runner??
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Very good work!
That is cool you guy's have the skills to do this. You should come up with a logo too for stickers if you produce these, and maybe even have the decal/sticker on the front or side of the bumper by the name. http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/medialab.../mouse-fat.gif |
that turned out amazing man, I am learning mastercam in school right now and will hopefully be able to make a bumper like that soon
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that is the coolest looking bumper out there. pretty sweet guys awesome work. What is your forcasted selling cost? and any chance you will be making one for a 1st gen or 3rd gen!?
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I should have tried it on the side of the bumper too, but you get the idea.
http://www.pnw4runners.com/pics/fatmouse.jpg http://www.pnw4runners.com/pics/fatmouse2.jpg Updated :D |
Wow!... just Wow! That is a great bumper. I'm no welder but the welds looked perfectly good to me. There's nothing at all wrong with your english either, it was better then a lot of posts we have here lol...
It looks like you have the start of a great business there, from what I've seen there is a demand for that kind of product in the EU and a "domestic" manufacturer would have definite market access advantages. If you wanted to go that route I would suggest developing a version of the bumper with a grill guard hoop similar to an ARB. Congratulations again on a job very well done. and welcome to the family Aviator |
nice job... i want one for my 91 pickup. :)
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Originally Posted by Corey
(Post 50923678)
I should have tried it on the side of the bumper too, but you get the idea.
http://www.pnw4runners.com/pics/fatmouse2.jpg Updated :D but I'd take a small rectangular sticker in black with the pearl gray script and put it some place on my truck... maybe jimmy dean can come up with something? |
Nice bumper. Looks like you guys had fun. :drink:
The Toyota logo and name might get you into some legal issues if you market those. Normal eye wear is no substitute for safety glasses when grinding. :hillbill: :guitar: |
WOW
i would love to do a weld a bumper kit it would be so fun and you end up with a killer bumper... what program did you use?? i know some machine shops so i could get the parts cnced |
looks really good, great
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Originally Posted by toyospearo
(Post 50923652)
that bumper is a work of art!!
really really beautiful I want one (hell I want two) on my 1st gen pu.
Originally Posted by ltbulldog23
(Post 50923662)
This is quite possibly the best Yotatech thread ever... and the final product is amazing. Great work!
Originally Posted by racingcameron66
(Post 50923665)
wow thats cool, where did you get that bash plate on the yellow runner??
Originally Posted by Corey
(Post 50923667)
Very good work!
That is cool you guy's have the skills to do this. You should come up with a logo too for stickers if you produce these, and maybe even have the decal/sticker on the front or side of the bumper by the name. http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/medialab.../mouse-fat.gif
Originally Posted by thewjsand
(Post 50923670)
that is the coolest looking bumper out there. pretty sweet guys awesome work. What is your forcasted selling cost? and any chance you will be making one for a 1st gen or 3rd gen!?
:banger:
Originally Posted by aviator
(Post 50923691)
Wow!... just Wow! That is a great bumper. I'm no welder but the welds looked perfectly good to me. There's nothing at all wrong with your english either, it was better then a lot of posts we have here lol...
It looks like you have the start of a great business there, from what I've seen there is a demand for that kind of product in the EU and a "domestic" manufacturer would have definite market access advantages. If you wanted to go that route I would suggest developing a version of the bumper with a grill guard hoop similar to an ARB. Congratulations again on a job very well done. and welcome to the family Aviator
Originally Posted by TOYOTA 1
(Post 50923693)
nice job... i want one for my 91 pickup. :)
Originally Posted by waskillywabbit
(Post 50923709)
Nice bumper. Looks like you guys had fun. :drink:
The Toyota logo and name might get you into some legal issues if you market those. Normal eye wear is no substitute for safety glasses when grinding. :hillbill: :guitar: Thatīs what I always say. Use safty gear always !!! In fact I use protective eye wear, just to hang around my buddies garage, hahahahaha (no kidding).
Originally Posted by bigt
(Post 50923710)
WOW
i would love to do a weld a bumper kit it would be so fun and you end up with a killer bumper... what program did you use?? I know some machine shops so i could get the parts cnced Iīm so glad you like it ... Your opinion has a lot of value for us. Think that for us, Yotatech is like Disneyworld for grown-up 4x4 enthusiasts !!! :grouphug: |
I would put one of those on my frontier.. to bad shipping would be so expensive!
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Originally Posted by aviator
(Post 50923694)
I think that mouse is a little too fat IMO Corey. I think something standing up on two legs might look better... sort of a mouse version of Remy's brother from Ratatouie [sp] or else a fat Jerry mouse...
but I'd take a small rectangular sticker in black with the pearl gray script and put it some place on my truck... maybe jimmy dean can come up with something? |
Nice work!! I think that the "bash plate" is the plate that goes from the bumper down to your IFS (aka skid plate).
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