I am currently working on a custom tube front bumper for my 3rd gen 4runner. I am going to be using 2"x2" square tube, 1.5" & 1" round tube, .25 plate, and 16 guage sheet metal.

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More pictures to come, should be finished monday. Comments? Opinions?

 

would love to see it when ya head up here for school!

 

that center tube? kinda odd how that is gonna make it strong with the outers, yet i know you are no where near done, so im sure Brad has something to fix that with, just caught my eye.

cant wait to see finished product.

 

Lookin good so far, you should do the satoshi grille mod while you got the bumper off!

 

Yep your right, he has a plan. There are gonna be some tubes that connect from either side of it, and the winch mount is going to intergrate into it, plus the brush bar hoops also tie into it. But this is the begining, we would be farther into it but Brad has gotten really sick, and i leave for college on thursday. So i am gonna come back home prolly next week and we are gonna finish it up.

Me either.

I just hope he gets better.


For the satashi mod, there are gonna be 4 hella 500's in the way of th grille, so i am not really worried about the satashi mod, plus its not like its hard to remove the grille.

Thanks Guys

 

This is what it should look like.
Green = plate
red = tube


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Looks good, I'll take one.

 

I think you should try with out the tube going around headlights and see what that looks like. Just a thought but I do like the concept.

 

Did you ever finish this project?

 

Not finished yet, my fabricator's wife left him like 3 days after we started the bumper, and he has been out of it and now he is finally getting better, and i moved 80 miles away.

He is gonna do what he can without my truck this week, and i am gonna drive down and we are gonna try and finish it Friday or in two weeks. I cant wait to get it done, started it over a month ago.

I will post up pics when its done.

 

left him for good? oh man that really sucks

 

yeah for good, it really sucks for Brad. He was really bad at the beginning, but he is getting better. He is eating some and wheeling, he is in Tellico today for his like 3rd week in a row.

 

that'll help most likely.

good to see hes recovering

 

Here is some work we got done today, the bottom part is done except for the winch mount which will be done later. The taped on turn signals are temprorary until we mod the running lights. We should be finishing it today. I love how it turning out.

 

Man I almost forgot about your bumper, glad you working on it again. I cant wait to see your final product.

 

Are you just moding your parking lights to be your new blinkers?

 

Yeah i am glad to be working on it too, we should finish it today. We are drilling a hole in the running lights, and putting in another bulb so the running lights will act as turn and running lights. I will try and get some pics later today of it.

 

Here is the pictures from finishing it up. The paint is currenty drying and the bumper will be put on soon.




Middle hoop


Outer light hoops


light bar





finish, just waiting for paint

 

Finally Finished. It its pretty light bumper with great approach angle.

 

Great work!