Well, I got a check from insurance from when I was rear ended on the highway, so I ordered a Marlin Crawler rear bumper and put it on tonight. Pics...

old bumper and trailer hitch off


new bumper on after painting




The paint looks a lot better than in the pictures, it's just all dirty from my hands and all of the crap that fell off from underneath when I was taking the old one off, you'd be amazed at where mud can get... Overall I like it a lot.

 

dang, looks great!

 

nice bumper

 

Sweet. No dents for you.....at least not on your bumper.

 

I just put one on my '81 Trekker. Quality is outstanding, ordered on a monday, had it by wednesday. For the money feel it is a great addition...

 

you can not go wrong with marlin. looks good. how long did you have to wait to get it?

 

Lookin awesome man, but that spare tire has got to go somewhere else. That is the only thing i dont like about it.

 

Yeah I know I need to figure out something to do with the spare. It might not look so bad if I actually wash that tire off, it sticks out like a sore thumb right now. I ordered it last friday night and it got here yesterday.

Oh yeah I totally forgot to mention, on the left bracket, I could NOT get the front bolt to start into the nut thats welded on. After trying every possible combination to get it lined up right, I finally decided to quit for the night so It's one bolt short overall. I don't plan on towing anything or putting any weight on it really until I get that bolt in, I just need some tips from those who actually got the dang thing in.

 

Whats the problem with putting that bolt in? No access to it? or is it just not fitting?

 

I can't tell, thats whats so frustrating. The outer bracket on the bumper that goes on the outside of the frame mount is lined up with the slot in the frame and I can get the hole on the bumper bracket lined up (as far as I can tell), but the bolt just won't start threading. I checked to make sure it wasn't cross threaded by taking the bracket off and the bolt threaded right into it. I'm probably going to have to give it another try tonight or something...

 

Take out the spare to give yourself more room

 

I received my 86 4runner Marlin rear bumper w/in a week. They should have a healty inventory of rear bumpers.

There shipping is very reasonable as well.

 

oh i dropped the spare before I even started doing anything. I had my uncle and my friend both trying to help me figure out that last bolt, after an hour and a half we gave up. Other than that everything went very smooth.