Homemade bumper
 

Started on my bumper today, right now all I've done is bought the steel, taken the stock bumper off and made one of the brackets to mount the new bumper. The plan is to have it look like this one except with recover hooks mounted underneath and no hitch.

http://www.rocklizardfabrications.com/100_0492.jpg

As of this afternoon I have one bracket done so it looks like this. The outer bracket that runs back along the chassis and picks up on some extra bolt holes is 6mm, there will also be a 6mm angle bracket welded on to this and bolted to the front valance.

It will have about 6 bolts through it.
http://www.4wdlinks.com.au/albums/al...2761.sized.jpg

And the bumper looks like this, hopefully it wont end up looking like a piece of railway track strapped to the front ;)

It will sit a little higher than this and there wont be a big gap between bumper and grill.

Total cost so far for steel, $56.

More tomorrow.

Cheers
Steve

Onya Steve. Love the handy work on your jeep lately. Go jeep 2?

any plans to mount a winch?

That will look tough once completed!

No plans for a winch, If I do decide on one I'll build another bar. At the moment I want all recovery points to come off the main brackets and to be bolted to then in some way as well as welded.

Cheers
Steve

If the tow points are going to me mounted underneath, make sure they are fairly beefy. The concern is that after a few whacks they become weaker.

I'm pretty much copying the factory towhook brackets, except it'll be thicker steel and more bracing :)

Anyway here's the updates from this mornings work, couple of hours to make the second bracket and measure and cut the bumper.

Hopefully today I'll get the brackets welded to the bumper and maybe get the corners cut and turned back to run towards the flares. The recovery points will come last as I need some more angle steel first.

Cheers
Steve