tomborsari

Hey ther, so on a whim the other day i decided that i wanted a stinger.. so i went to home depot and bought some of that thick black steel plumbing tubing thinking i could bend it with my HF pipe bender. i was wrong. luckily, my local fab guy had a good exhaust bender and bent it up for me.





obviously it is too big how it is now, so i was hoping to cut it down before putting it onto some fat angle- bar and mounting it via some grade A bolts. anyone know the length and angle from the bumper of most stingers?

i am hopin to have this think on by the weekend

sthon

Good god... put it on like that

bheath

That damn thing is MASSIVE! Ha!

93zjwheeler

Yeah put it on like that if you do god help the person who brake checks u

Jeepjunky

somebody is over compensating

Dsach

WOW < the only word that comes to mind.

tomborsari

i have thought of keepin it that height.. yes youre right i am overcompensating... for the lack of stinger!

but the way im lookin at it.. i wanna cut down the stinger to like 8in from the bottom 2 bends and then make a reinforcement - type thing where it attatches to the mount.

I have bbeen thinking of trying to make the lower part of the mounting plate into some sort of D-ring mount, but we will see

still lookin for some specs!

brookhart63

Is this just for looks? Because it looks dumb. Why does everybody want huge stingers all of a sudden.

XJeepWerks

Take it easy bud... everybody has their own opinion. A stinger of that size isn't appealing to me either but that doesn't mean I'm going to be disrespectful towards the owner. I have a small stinger on my bumper to protect the winch I plan on putting on it. My stinger bar is big enough to protect a winch but not obnoxious. This large stinger bar will probably hinder wheeling more than it will help. That'd be a nightmare on a tight trail.

ktmracer419

id cut it down so those bends in the middle arent there at the least. looks tacky with em'

nitro450exp

What would Sigmund say !!!!!!!!

HA HA

Nitro

meancherokee

x2 how stupid. bolt on stinger? seriously? stingers have a purpose when they are built correctly which this is not. looks like ***

sthon

How do you plan on bolting that on anyway? And why not weld it on?

tomborsari

okay to help answer some questions-

first off, i am obviously cutting this down. in all seriousness i do like how stingers look, but i want it to be useful also, thus the cutting down. (altho i may hafta cut past the bends to have the proper height anyway) i am also trying to find the proper angle to make it so that it isn't a burden on the trails

i have the other 2 bends on it to keep the stinger out of the way of the headlights once i cut it down.

why im making it bolt on? because i simply dont know if i really will like it or want it, and 8 grade 8 bolts threaded into my 1/4 inch steel bumper will hold just fine if i really like it, i will hack off the prerunner hoop and reinforce the stinger more like this


If i ended up liking it i could always just cut the mounting plate off and weld it on, its really not that big of a deal.

jesus, seems like some people had a bad presidents day

Lowrange2

Ya know, they Rusty's offroad Jeep would be pretty bad if they took that stupid looking bumper off the front.

Bolting a HUGE stinger to the front of your Jeep isn't going to support the weight of anything. If you must have a huge stinger then you'd need to reinforce it at the bottom and tie in to something higher... like an engine cage or exo.

How often do you ALMOST go over the front bumper?