Your bumper is sick, very nicely done. I am looking at doing one myself. I have a couple questions. Do you have tube stock under the plate like your rear bumper build? I saw you used 2x4 tube there. Same here? What's the wall thickness? Plate thickness? Just wondering what everyone is using. Thanks!

 

Thank you. No tube on the front bumper. Basically I just got 10 feet of 5" wide, 1/8th inch plate, and cut out each individual piece. I only did the top and the front though, no bottom. Then the mounts are 1/4" thick plate.

 

i really like your design no to over the top and gawdy nice welds too

 

Looks great, my xj has a homebrew on it right now but am scraping some money together to tweak it a bit. and I really like your rear w/ swing, might copy your swing a bit but use round tube instead.... plus just bought myself a TIG a few months back and it gives me an excuse to use it :P GREAT WORK!

 

Really nice bumper!! Great welds also. I have a Lincoln 230 Mig, and sometimes my welds do not look that nice! Good steady hand.

 

Hey thank you! Check out my rear bumper in my signature too!

 

So what kind of welder did you use for this?

 

It's the Lincoln 125 HD which is wire feed. It can be run with gas less flux core wire. Or MIG with a bottle of gas. I use the flux core has less wire. Real quality for a small hobby welder at around 400 from home depot.

 

Also what thickness of steel did you use? And where'd you get it from?

 

The mounts are 1/4 inch plate and the main bumper is 1/8th inch plate

 

This is NOT part of my bumper but this is what I'm working on in my welding class. This is 7018 in the horizontal just before a 3-bead. I really like stick welding and 6010 is my favorite electrode.

 

I forgot to add the picture

 

Can anyone tell me how to start a new thread?

 

Go back to the page where you can pick the thread and click new thread?? Its in the same spot as to post..kinda.

 

do you know roughly the height of the front piece of the bumper? im making one and im thinking about 6 inches or so