knobturner75

Here a few shots of my metal work so far for the bumper. The tube is 2" x 5" x 1/4". I wanted to keep the nice rolled edge that the factory put in the tube, so I pie cut the tube and welded them back together to make my end pieces. Definitely not the easiest or quickest way, but it's what I wanted to do. You all have no idea how excited I am that the end pieces turned out as close to identical as they did. I usually don't end up with results like that, especially for my first metal fab job.

knobturner75

My friend, Derek, and I did some work today on the bumper. We didn't get a lot accomplished, but we did get the end sections completely welded and ground down. I'll have to take pics another time. I forgot to today. I've got to get my mount worked out so we can start piecing the bumper together then. And before you ask, the mounts are 2 pieces of 6" x 3/8" x 21" flat. That will be trimmed down eventually to match the "frame" section and the tube itself. I'm over building this like crazy. No factory 6 holes only for me.

knobturner75

Well, it's been quite awhile since I've updated. I finally finished my bumper and mounted it last week.

knobturner75

I even took it out to a trail ride at Turkey Bay this past Saturday. I was lucky and never had to hook a strap to it and test it's strength. Here's a couple dirty shots after I got home.

offroadnut36

Bumper looks great!

knobturner75

Thank you. I forgot to mention that this is just phase 1 of the bumper. Later I will be adding some tube and a winch.

offroadnut36

Sounds sweet!

JerseyJeeper

Looks great!! Did you tow off of those tabs at all on that trip?

JerseyJeeper

Never mind I didn't read lol I like pictures better than reading lol

knobturner75

I'm guilty of that too at times. I took the bypass about 6 times or less. I didn't want to push it for the sake of pushing it knowing that I couldn't make it. You see I still have small tires.

JerseyJeeper

Yeah bypass trails are good lol If you look at my avatar pic I decided to to take a bypass on that trail and got swamped lol

knobturner75

That's crazy. That looks like a nasty hole in the bypass.

JerseyJeeper

Sorry it shouldve said not to take the bypass instead of "to to take a bypass" lol that would be bad though if that was a bypass lol

96xj4x4

some of the bypasses in the pines have holes that are just as bad if not worse than going strait through! lol

JerseyJeeper

Haven't been out there yet but I'm hoping to this summer