I said YOLO and ordered a Weld-It-Yourself bumper kit! (Surprisingly Cheap!)

[wtfemery]

Good job powering through! I kinda side eyed the bumper design the first time I saw it, but it's growing on me. Now rather than making your dear mom run the welding rig, I'd think about building a support jig from scrap wood that you can use to hold the bumper in place with a floor jack and jack-stand it. Another set of hands or two would be ideal, but it looks like you'll figure something out!

I did, with jack stands and books, I somehow made it work, didn’t even need help, although if I had an extra set of hands it would’ve been done 5x as fast lol.

Not much visible progress today other than switching to the new mounts and a few more big welds. I had to destroy the old mounts in the process of getting them off, so it took a while.

Edit: Oh, and I kinda wish the new brackets had more room to move forward another half inch, so if I bump into something the bumper won’t immediately ram up against my body pieces, but I guess that’s how it has to be. It does result in a less bulky look though since it’s pushed up closer to the body, i guess. I had to grid down the bumper in some spots so that it wouldn’t rub against things, like whatever that cylindrical thing is in front of the radiator on the passenger side.

Edit 2: I’m also thinking of putting a recessed plate behind the “MOVE” logo, about an inch back, enclosing it, and using the two little included lights (meant for turn signals) to illuminate the recessed plate from below so the logo just slightly glows orange, like a jack-o-lantern. I think it’d be a cool look...

 

[wtfemery]

Done and painted. can’t wait to get it on the truck.

 

[wtfemery]

Just gotta wire up the lights now woop woop

 

[wtfemery]

 

[Devbot]

Lookin lots better! How much space between the bumper and tire? Looks to be very close, might come back to bite you when you get new tires or flex your suspension

 

[snydmax]

Lookin lots better! How much space between the bumper and tire? Looks to be very close, might come back to bite you when you get new tires or flex your suspension

Yeah that bumber does intrude a ways into the fender well... did the OP mess up with the frame-to-bumper mounts?

Looks great otherwise.


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[cl4Rk]

Yeah that bumber does intrude a ways into the fender well...

[MENTION=444431]wtfemery[/MENTION] can we get a side photo to better see the tire clearance?

Looks goooood though!! Nice work

 

[wtfemery]

[MENTION=444431]wtfemery[/MENTION] can we get a side photo to better see the tire clearance?

Looks goooood though!! Nice work

Thanks!

I don’t have pics right now, but it only intrudes about 0.5” into the wheel well and doesn’t come close to rubbing. It’s annoying that it’s like that, but I was just really eager to get it done. I really do think the brackets were just too short, and since I had already built most of the bumper before I decided to switch the brackets, I couldn’t make adjustments.

I’m going to leave it how it is for now... Next time I happen to have the bumper off i’ll grind the holes in the bracket a bit so I can scoot it forward a quarter inch or so.

 

[wtfemery]

If I ever upgrade to bigger wheels i can just hack ‘em off and cap ‘em off. For now, not a problem

I think the other pic was a bit of an optical illusion because the bumper comes out wider than the fenders

 

[snydmax]

If I ever upgrade to bigger wheels i can just hack ‘em off and cap ‘em off. For now, not a problem

I think the other pic was a bit of an optical illusion because the bumper comes out wider than the fenders

Yeah that’s not too bad... like you said, can make clearance as-needed


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[wtfemery]

got some D rings for the recovery points