Took about a month to finish this - almost - gotta wire the lights. It was quite the learning experience and hats off to all the 9-5 fabricators out there. Enjoy the pics.......











Thanks to Josh (TubingWorks) for the tube bending and making my welds look like shiat.

 

Looks pretty good

 

nice ..

 

Wow, wish i could do that..since I can't I'm saving for an ARB. But I must say it looks good and sets it out different than the rest. Good Job

 

Damn Andy...that thing is sweet!! You did a great job, and with Josh's help looks like you have a functional, and bling bumper. Lets go bash it on some rocks!!

 

Nice, is it based on anyone else's design or purely conceptual? Just wondering

 

thats clean as hell son, good job

 

Good work. Very cool design. Dig it!

 

very nice !!!

 

looks good. what are those cylinder things on each side?

 

agreed, what are the cylinders for?

 

Dang, that is sweet! Good job, I like that look very much. Also, what are the cylinder things for?

 

I was wondering the same thing...I think they are drink holders

 

The cylinder things are cup-holders. Gotta have a place for your beer while the tools occupy that center plate.
I will modify it to fit a winch at somepoint. I'm thinking of dropping it in the middle, with the fairlead coming out of that front plate and the top of the winch just popping thru the top plate.
Thanks for the compliments. And Marc - I think you know how I like to leave some mild steel on granite....I'm looking forward to the first ding.

 

Yeup... gotta be drink holders.

 

I took some ideas from a variety of other bumpers but in the end wanted a hybrid design to match the sliders. The square tubing is pretty hard to offset but after the RT below it and the top/side hoops it came together nicely - I think.

 

that is awesome. when it is time to do mine im coming back to this thread. good looking stuff. the peice the bumper mounts to, is that a piece from the factory on a 3rd gen or did u make that too. i love the idea of making a bolt on bumper.

 

How much for one

 

That is a custom crossmember (2x3 3/16") I fabbed. I cut it to fit over the frame horns while spanning the distance between the frame rails. It was amazing how different the front end felt/drove after just this mod. It felt like the whole front end tightened up. I'm still wondering why they didn't put one there in the first place. The only thing that was there was a cheap-ass "crossmember" so the front skid could bolt to. That's toast so underway currently is a custom frontskid.

I wish. If I could bust these out maybe but, damn, this thing took some time. How do these fab shops make any money??

 

The tube bumpers are becoming more and more popular on the 3rd generations....SWEEET !!! Nice work!