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So I finally finished up my upper and lower grille mods. Pics of grilles with mesh attached. I also painted the Toyota symbol to color-match the truck.
I made a bracket and installed Diode Dynamics lights in the lower grille area. I added two small red lights in the upper grille area.
And finally with the bumper back on:
Pretty happy with how it all turned out. Still need to wire up the lights.
Also, You'll notice that I have cut away the lower portion of the bumper. I am designing and will soon start building a winch bumper.
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03-16-2023, 12:20 PM
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That looks great. I'm excited to see what you came up with for a bumper. I think your 3rd gen's was great.
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03-16-2023, 12:31 PM
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So I finally finished up my upper and lower grille mods. Pics of grilles with mesh attached. I also painted the Toyota symbol to color-match the truck.
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How did you attached the mesh?
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03-17-2023, 10:00 AM
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How did you attached the mesh?
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I had to epoxy some chunks of plastic around the backside perimeter. Then used small screws to attach the mesh to those plastic pieces.
It was actually quite a bit of work making sure everything fit correctly.
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03-26-2023, 09:35 PM
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Looking good!
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03-29-2023, 09:35 PM
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I've gotta say that's the best 5th gen bumper I've seen. Well done man.
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03-30-2023, 09:27 PM
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I've gotta say that's the best 5th gen bumper I've seen. Well done man.
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Thank you sir! Much appreciated.
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04-28-2023, 05:08 PM
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Cool build!
I liked your 3rd gen. I’m copied your roof rack for my 3rd gen. I had to sell it a few yrs back. But I’m back with a ‘22 ORP in Barcelona. I dig the mods. How are you liking the light setup?
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05-08-2023, 09:42 PM
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Cool build!
I liked your 3rd gen. I’m copied your roof rack for my 3rd gen. I had to sell it a few yrs back. But I’m back with a ‘22 ORP in Barcelona. I dig the mods. How are you liking the light setup?
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Thanks. For the little bit I've played around with the lights, I like them so far. Will be doing some camping soon and hope to really put them to use and see how they do.
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05-09-2023, 09:27 PM
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Making some progress on the front bumper:
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05-20-2023, 10:03 PM
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A little more progress on the front bumper:
Center section is basically done, just need to clean up the side edges yet. Then move on to the side wings.
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this is awesome.
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Well I finally finished all the fabrication on the front bumper. It took way longer than I expected, but I think it turned out really nice.
I also made a small skid plate that bridges the gap between the bumper and the OEM skidplate:
I just need to clean up a few things, and then get it off to the powder coater. Can't wait to finally get this thing installed.
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07-17-2023, 10:22 PM
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Let me be the first to say: hot damn! That's a good looking bumper!
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