my cherokee came without a rear bumper. the bumper im attaching has a hitch mount so i would love to know how to mount it. it was off a tj so i just cut off those mounts and im gonna fab up new ones. pics and answers greatly appreciated

 

You will need to have some custom mounts built. If it is from a tj, and has a reciever hitch you are going to need to use the nut strips that are in the frame rails as well as the 8 bolts on the back of the rig

 

well my dad owns a fab shop so i have no problem building them myself i just need to know what to build

 

can anyone post sone pics of how the stock rear bumper mounts

 

Works like this

This is the stock bracket which attaches the bumper to the body:



This is a good close up of how it bolts up to the body. The four holes are the stock bolt holes for each bracket. The brackets are mounted to the body with a total of eight bolts. The bumper only uses four. The oval shaped hole is where you'll be putting the nut strips in everyone has been talking about. Pretty much there's pre drilled holes in the unibody rail to put bolts into. The nut strips need to be incorporated into the bumper some how so you have extra pulling power.

 

Here's a good link from jeep forum on the nutstrips

http://www.jeepforum.com/forum/f37/f...strips-818051/

 

If the hitch is part of the bumper. You need do like they did in the nut strip link and open up the mounting location.

That way you can fit a 2x4 steel tube down there. With the 2x4 tube you are tied into the unibody just like a factory/aftermarket hitch and aftermarket bumper's do.

 

alright well ill just have to open it up put a 2x4 or 2x6 beam in there

 

2x4 should do just fine

 

alright. and where exactly in jersey are you? im warren county.

 

Well I'm all over lol In the summer I'm in Ocean County, in the fall, winter, and spring I'm back and forth between Passaic and Middlesex. I go to school at William Paterson University in Wayne. In Middlesex, I live in Milltown which is next to East Brunswick.

 

nice where do you wheel at? i trudge down to the pine barrons

 

Well I've been to Rausch Creek twice, normally hit the beach on Island Beach State Park in the summer and some local spots in Morris called Split Rock with some buddies and got some spots by me but they're not exactly legal lol