Heres how I made the brackets. Using front 3 stock holes and went farther back and used another hole there. you can see the nut straight below the fender flare kind of.



Then on the inside i made these bracket/braces to strengthen it up a little bit. 2 more factory holes were used.

 

DAMN!!! thats awesome man

 

Heres a shot of piecing together the bottom. it was a trail and error kind of deal getting everything to line up and fit.




I welded in some additional braces just in case. Apparently I didn't get pics of building the grille gaurd part of it. You can also see one of the clevis mounts coming through the bumper. I welded two 3/8" and one 3/16" flat irons togehter to get the right thickness for the clevis's



After bolting it up there were some cows out on the road and I got to test it out and it worked awesome haha!

 

He is risen indeed and that is one smokin' hot bumper. I've gotta get my hands on one of those. Sheesh.

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that thing is beastly, now time for some lights and a winch!

 

i like that a lot
and yea some lights and a winch would really top that bumper off

 

Got 'er finished up! You can't tell, but I bolted on the bottom center pipe that the lights are mounted on becasue thats where i will make changes if I want to mount a winch or whatever without using the reciever. Rolled on some herculiner to finish it off. I figure I have 22-24 hours in it, but I'm happy with how it turned out! Just need to figure out how to kill the airbags so I can really bash into stuff......

 

nice dude that looks sweet

 

i want one!

 

After you do it once you won't have to worry about it.

But seriously I love it, looks sweet.

 

Very nice work man your xj is also a nice ride

 

Awesome work man! i've got some scrap sheet metal laying around myself and some flat stock, also got myself a welder! you've inspired me to endure many frustrating days on fabing up a bumper for my XJ