my buddy scott is an awesome fabber, and is helping me build a rear bumper for my truck that is modeled after bruce's / charles' bumpers.

here is the progress so far.. it should be done tomorrow





you can see the bumper pad fits perfectly!










and the aftermath of a quick wheelin' run after we got tired of working on the bumper yesterday

 

mmm, looking nice.

 

oh and a big thanks to charles for pics, measurements etc

 

That's awesome. As far as the debate goes on cost for one of these, could something be made like this for sub $500?

 

i got lucky. a buddy built a front bumper for his taco recently and bought a lot of steel that was scrap but was in big pieces. he didnt need one of the sheets of 3/16 (which is what we're cutting up), so he gave it to me (free!).

The main bar is 2 x 4, and was something my friend scott had. he also has more for support brackets for the side pieces and for the frame mounts.

so total cost has been cutting wheels and buying my buddy lunch and breakfast and stuff

id guess $100 or less.

 

What he means is, join a club, make lots of friends, and these things magically cost less, haha.

Bumper looks awesome, I love the crumpled chrome in the upper section of one of those pics.

 

hahah

actually the crumpled chrome was a help, it proved how much clearance i needed

 

Lee that thing is looking real nice. I banged the hell out of my stock bumper Saturday and think it has me at this point also.

Great pics keep them coming!

 

I assume the rear bumper will be black, that means it is time to do something about that chrome grill.

 

i am! im swapping grills with drew (he has a 98 limited, for those who dont know drew) and will be making it into a satoshi grille

 

So are you going to have Scott make your grill too?

What kind of drugs have you been giving Drew that he swapped lifts with you, swapped tires and rims, and now will swap grills too? I want to give them to Rich.

 

he didnt swap lifts with me... just rims and tires.

he wants the 01 grille, and its a good opportunity for me to make the satoshi grille

i dont need help for that its really easy.

 

I thought you took his body lift and front setup and he took your PP springs front and rear?

Hmm...how can I convince Rich he wants stock birfs and a stock single case?

 

nice. use 1/4" plate for the frame brackets. you should also consider plating the frame with some 1/8" plate if you plan on a tire carrier at some point. also, use the attachment point on the bottom of the frame, but you should also drill and sleve two holes - one at the front by the end of the wing mounting point at the tire and one at the rear near the rear body mount - and put a large thru-bolt horizontally thru the vertical portions of the brackets and the frame.

 

oh yeah always forget the BL... doh! hahah:pat:

 

thanks for the advice....

 

got any pics of that? im having a hard time visualizing...

 

im actually just gonna weld it to the frame, so i dont need to worry about all of that.

 

ohhhh, i wouldn't do that. i wouldn't do that at all.

 

...why?

ill be putting supports for all sides, im not just gonna weld the center part to the frame.