Has anyone built the stock bumpers on their rig? I like the look of mine since I cut them down and would like to keep them as a base to start from. Any suggestions on how to reinforce it?

 

Check out lowrange2's bumper design that he made

 

Have you looked at http://www.detoursusa.com/xjbackbone.php

 

I have but Im thinking of building the stock bumpers up enough to be able to use them as recovery points as well as have a stinger off the front bumper.

 

Waste of time.

 

For bumper I would use minimum 3/16 material .

 

If you're gonna go to all that trouble, just build new ones...

 

If your good you could build a good off road bumper that kinda looks like the stock one maybe.

 

I may end up going this route the more I think about welding thicker plate steel to the bumper the more I realize its still gonna be weak. Whats the thickest metal that would be sensible to use?

 

I wouldn't even try that. Make something similar to the backbone if you want to keep the stock. I had an idea of building a stubby style bumper and recessing it enough where I could still access a winch and then using the stock on to cover it somehow but I threw that out the window once I actually started my build lol.

 

Yeah, I aborted that design. No real easy way to do it for minimum benefits. The design didn't strengthen the OEM bumper. It only gave you a place to mount a winch.

 

Ah, so it wasn't my idea.
Either way you're gay.

 

Ya like I said trying to build onto week=still week lol. So what is the thickest sensible metal I should look at? Wanna be able to abuse it alot with out destroying it or the unibody.