Thanks man!

Your headlight retros turned out awesome! Those Profile Hi-Lens LED's in the high beam spot is sick!

Hopefully at some point i'll get around to doing something with mine.

Thanks dude! Im a big fan. If I'm going all out, might as well go nuts. My highs are insane...

I actually finally got around to wiring in a feature of my retros that I built in and never wired up until over the weekend! Stay tuned

Man, I hate paint prep!

Blasted the inside of the bumper with one of those cheap gravity fed media blasters from HF. Basically, hitting the spots I couldn't reach with the angle grinder. Hopefully this is cleaned up enough, cause I'm over it. If this doesn't hold up over time, I'll have it sandblasted and paint the whole thing with steel-it!

Plan on shooting the inside of it this weekend, paper thin coat of etch primer, 2-3 coats of 2 part epoxy primer and a quick topcoat of rustoleum or whatever I have lying around that's flat/satin black. Let it cure up good and then flip it over and start on the outside...

This is starting to drag on, and on, too long.



Welded some round stock in various places for zip ties to secure the electric wiring.



And yeah, I know, my welds aren't pretty...

Had to put the bumper on hold for a bit to take care of some problems that popped up...

So I bought these front hub assemblies off eBay, "assembled by a Toyota tech" and using "Koyo" bearings. Well, they lasted all of 15k miles. They sound like shit and the right side has play in it when holding it at 12 and 6 and rocking it back and forth.
Wish I would have seen the thread on here where there was back and forth about counterfeit bearings from China before they went in... (I looked for it again but can't find it)

Been a big fan of McGeorge Toyota for online pricing, and living in the same state, they come quick. I'm also taking the opportunity to address the aftermarket axels currently in there and replacing them with some CJV remans.

I know there's probably an easier way to do this, but this is what I came up with:

All around great thread, thanks for the detail here.

Thanks man!

Gotta get this thing wrapped up, wheeling/camping season is here!

While waiting for the axels to come in, took some time to check out these bearings. I'm no pro, but there are some minor differences that make me think the old bearings may be fakes. On the fake bearing the font is different (The "C" in "HC" is a giveaway), the engraving depth is shallower and the face(?) of the bearing is narrower.
The top pic is the suspect counterfeit one.

Fun update...

Pulled a few late nights and got the bumper painted! Crossed my fingers and tried out a 2 part system (SprayMax) you can get in rattle cans on amazon.

• SEM Self Etch Primer Paper thin coat
• 2 Part epoxy primer (3 coats)
• Prematched base coat (2 coats)
• Clear coat (2 heavy coats)

Note: The base coat is done by batch and it looks like it was mixed at the time of order. I ordered 2 cans and really could have used 3.

Monday got the bare metal prepped, did a little body filler on some weld voids, etched and primed it.


Tuesday got it wet sanded and painted. (pics taken after 1st coat of clear)




For a garage job, really pumped over how well it turned out! Still have to clean up and touch up the backside a little for looks and then it goes on, hopefully next week, going camping this weekend.

steezy

You've got skillz bro. Great work, as usual!

If you mentioned it, I missed it but where did you buy the new bearings?

Thanks Man!

Gracias!

Sorry, it was a couple posts back Post 34. I ordered them online from McGeorge Toyota.

Bumper looks wild, cant wait to see it on. Nice job!

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It was killing me looking at the bumper sitting in the garage, had to see it on. Managed to get some gas station pics, better than my garage lighting... Hopefully, I'll get some better ones over the weekend but I'm pretty psyched with how it turned out! (need to paint the hood now!!)

Thanks man! See above :-)