Weekend Project: NoseRing
10-01-2010, 10:55 PM
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Weekend Project: NoseRing
well since i dont have any tow hooks for the front of my jeep, and with winter coming up, never know when they will come in handy. I thought about getting another set of C4x4 Fab tow hooks(I've had them before and they are great!) but I decided to fab up my own dealie.
I plan on making what will be a front hitch. Online they want $120-ish for one and the receiver for the hitch is located below the bumper. I plan to make mine with the receiver in the middle of the bumper. So it will be easier to get at if I do end up in a snow bank.
Materials:
4 feet of 1/4in thick, 6in wide flat steel
4 feet of 1/4in thick, 5in wide C channel
Total Cost of material: $55
Starting this afternoon
Step One. Remove bumper
Step Two: Remove steering box box, or in my case, snap 2 of them, and break the steering box spacer
Step Three: Make a cardboard template
Step Four: Drill holes
Step Five: Make another bracket plate for passenger side
Step Six: Cut section of C channel for brace across and to weld receiver to
And this is where i stopped. Tomorrow I gotta hit up the junkyard for the steering box bolts and spacer that broke, pick up a receiver tube.
I plan on welding some plate to the end of the channel with holes drilled for the bolts, then add a gusset from the C channel to the side brackets to give it more support.(i hope that makes sense,...)
A few problems I see running into is not having enough room to put a nut on the very front 2 bolts. Looks pretty tight to the C channel. I'm gonna secure the C channel to the front crossmember with a few bolts. Maybe that will suck it back and give me more room to put some nuts for the bolts,...
I plan on welding the receiver tube to the Channel, reinforce the receiver with some gusseting. Should be stout enough to pull from. I should be able find the parts I need for the steering box at the junkyard, if those dont break when trying to get them off,....
When its all done, I'll cut a hole out in the bumper, throw a D-ring receiver in it, and it will look like a nose ring!
I plan on making what will be a front hitch. Online they want $120-ish for one and the receiver for the hitch is located below the bumper. I plan to make mine with the receiver in the middle of the bumper. So it will be easier to get at if I do end up in a snow bank.
Materials:
4 feet of 1/4in thick, 6in wide flat steel
4 feet of 1/4in thick, 5in wide C channel
Total Cost of material: $55
Starting this afternoon
Step One. Remove bumper
Step Two: Remove steering box box, or in my case, snap 2 of them, and break the steering box spacer
Step Three: Make a cardboard template
Step Four: Drill holes
Step Five: Make another bracket plate for passenger side
Step Six: Cut section of C channel for brace across and to weld receiver to
And this is where i stopped. Tomorrow I gotta hit up the junkyard for the steering box bolts and spacer that broke, pick up a receiver tube.
I plan on welding some plate to the end of the channel with holes drilled for the bolts, then add a gusset from the C channel to the side brackets to give it more support.(i hope that makes sense,...)
A few problems I see running into is not having enough room to put a nut on the very front 2 bolts. Looks pretty tight to the C channel. I'm gonna secure the C channel to the front crossmember with a few bolts. Maybe that will suck it back and give me more room to put some nuts for the bolts,...
I plan on welding the receiver tube to the Channel, reinforce the receiver with some gusseting. Should be stout enough to pull from. I should be able find the parts I need for the steering box at the junkyard, if those dont break when trying to get them off,....
When its all done, I'll cut a hole out in the bumper, throw a D-ring receiver in it, and it will look like a nose ring!
10-03-2010, 04:45 PM
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uugh! I feel your pain bro I just did the same thing to my gearbox! So i bought a new box, the threads were fubar $127 from oreilly, and chrysler wants $127 for the spacer!!!! If they had it which they dont and said theyre out of production too!! So i ordered the C-Rok inner brace $57 bucks shipped. Just a lil fyi.....
10-03-2010, 09:52 PM
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I'm gonna order a better spacer from one of the vender tomorrow. Havent decided which one. For now, I threw a few washers welded together to get me through tomorrow and tuesday. I'm off wednesday and thrusday. Plus i got another vehicle i could drive if need be.
Braced both sides, thats as far as I got today. Had other stuff going on,..
Braced both sides, thats as far as I got today. Had other stuff going on,..
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10-07-2010, 07:11 AM
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would be a great excuse to throw a durango box in there, cheap easy uprade, doin mine this week, i run 36's tho so i kinda need it
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10-07-2010, 08:36 AM
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Finished it up yesterday. Welded the receiver in, trimmed the bumper skin and slapped it on.
This is my DD for now, so I dont think i would use the Durango box to it full potential.
^didnt quite measure right, but my lisence plate will cover it up the gap below the hitch receiver. oh well
The only down side to this, is that I have to remove the bumper to swap out receivers. Which is no big deal cause i only plan on using that receiver as a recovery point. Throw a d-ring receiver in there and slap the bumper back on and thats it.
Cost of the 2in receiver: $18
Miss Bolts and nuts: $10
Total build cost: $83
^didnt quite measure right, but my lisence plate will cover it up the gap below the hitch receiver. oh well
The only down side to this, is that I have to remove the bumper to swap out receivers. Which is no big deal cause i only plan on using that receiver as a recovery point. Throw a d-ring receiver in there and slap the bumper back on and thats it.
Cost of the 2in receiver: $18
Miss Bolts and nuts: $10
Total build cost: $83
10-07-2010, 02:04 PM
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look really good. creative. and i wonder that as well. did you cut an access hole for the hitch pin? do you plan on building a spring loaded one?
10-07-2010, 10:13 PM
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