Today I was able to get the rear bumper powder coated and some other stuff too. My fater in law knows a guy so not only was the price great, he also took the time to teach me the process of powder coating.

Now why you really clicked on this

PICTURES

all mocked up for the oven


getting the brackets ready


hitting the bumper with some semi gloss black


fresh from the oven


take a last look at the old bumper


installing bumper, this thing is a tight fit! there is not alot of room around this thing anywhere. Marlin Crawler really did a good job with the fit.


As long as I was there I decided to de-chrome the runner. So long 80's bull bar and tow hooks.


All the chrome blasted off, looking good.


Front tow hooks and d-rings getting preped for color. What color..........


BRIGHT RED


Fresh from the oven all wet looking


Bull bar all blacked out


Now you are allowed to see the rear bumper.


But don't forget the front tow hooks


Now the front is all back together too.


Don't worrie I have a front skid plate but it was taken off for an oil change, today was a very busy day for the little Runner.

Still need to finish blacking out the trailer hitch, but you know what those already look like.

 

Looks good! I'd like to see another shot of how the rear bumber wraps around to the wheel well.

 

Very nice!
Plus you got to learn how to powder coat on top of that.

 

Looks great...now you can come wheel with us next weekend.

 

I wish I could but that is the weekend I am moving back home, to Kingman Arizona, the cultural and intellectual capital of the universe. Why because I'm out of the service

 

Awesome! I really like the tube rear bumpers.

 

No problem here you go


Here's one more. Hope this helps.

 

nice, now get rid of those plain jane rims and put some nice meats on there

 

I really want to but there is just too much meat left on these.

Update: I am selling the rear bumper and all the plastics through the marketplace https://www.yotatech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=98352

 

Thanks for the additional pics. Just my opinion, but if you're not going back to a stock bumper, I'd cut off those metal brackets that used to hang the black plastic trim. Might give it a cleaner look.

 

Yeah the farthest back one is gonna get the grinding wheel but the one closer to the rear wheel well is a bit tricky cause it braces the rear of the wheel well

 

thats a great looking bumper, i ordered mine last february, i cancelled that order at the end of august when they said they still couldnt gove me an eta... I ended up going with a bigrocks rear, not as clean but they got it to me in 3 weeks, not 7+months... I almost regret it

 

Good powder coating job.....did that guy pretreat the metal before he shot it? Very critical step in powder coating...I see he has a homemade oven? One of these days I'm gonna fab me up one....just need to get the money to do so. Also something that might benefit him is a ventilation fan and a filter to suck the powder back onto the filter because it helps on the mess and pulls the powder away from spots where ya don't want it falling...like if you want to do fades and such. I hate blasting off chrome...if ya don't get it all off then the cadmium coating of chrome plating bleeds through the coating and it looks like crap all bubbled up! Nice work though...I got that exact same gun from Eastwood....$800! I modified my fan tip a few days ago and it shoots alot better now...

 

That bumper looks great! I have been thinking about getting that bumper. Trying to decide if the Marlin or getting 4x4Labs custom bumper. Do you have any other pics of the truck overall? Just wanting to get a better look of it overall.

Thanks! Again, truck looks great w/ that bumper.

 

Yeah I know the feeling I waited 5 months for mine. I called them every month and a guy named Steve finally told me they had only 1 welder/fabricator working his butt off to fill all the orders.

 

No the oven is a professional unit look at pic #8 and you can get the best look at it (blue) he had it shiped from Montana I think. As far as suction must of the pics take place infront of the suction area( pics 2,3,8,9,10,11,12)
Oh yeah we pre treated and even sand blasted the bumper before hand, chrome peice was taken down and no bubbles anywhere. This guy powdercoats for a couple of big tool outfits, industrial only (honda, ford, and a few others that only see assembly lines) he does a great job, couldn't have learned from a better person IMHO

 

I'll get some tomarrow

 

Look forward to seeing them! Thanks

 

so with that bumper, are you still able to use a trailer hitch or do you not need one with that particular bumper? I see where there is a place to put a drop bar in there but was wondering if you could still use the trailer hitch too.