GreaseCycles
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My New Homemade Front Winch Bumper EDIT: Now with pics
Hey to all, I have been a member for a while but this is my first real post. So bear with me.
I have decided to finally mount my old warn 8274 winch to my cherokee.
Since I am still in highschool and I can't afford one of the snazzy prebuilt (read expensive) NICE bumpers, I am having to build my own.
The main arms hich are 26" end to end are 1/4 * 6 inch flat stock, as is the main portion of the front of the bumper where the winch actually mounts.
The crossmember running perpendicular to the arms is also 1/4*6. I have a total of 52.00 in this plus my time, which right now I have almost 7 1/2 hours in it!
Pight now it will be held to the jeep with 8 bolts per side. Do yall think this will be enough? The driver side will use the steering box bolts plus another 5. This is counting the thin sheet metal holes at the front of the truck to which the stock bumper was hanging from. Yall reckon that this will be strong enough.
I know that this thread is useless without pics but they will be up for the nights out so bare with me.
EDIT Pics Below!
The only thing right now that I don't totally like is how far it sticks out from the front of my truck. But with the warn 8274 it is kinda hard to snug it up too tight without cutting the grill, which is already slam full of Power steering coolers, condensors, and my aux. tranny cooler. So it really was not much of an option, plus I did not want to cut, so I guess I will live with it
Anyways Yall tell me what yall think and if you think that I need to change anything.
Hey to all, I have been a member for a while but this is my first real post. So bear with me.
I have decided to finally mount my old warn 8274 winch to my cherokee.
Since I am still in highschool and I can't afford one of the snazzy prebuilt (read expensive) NICE bumpers, I am having to build my own.
The main arms hich are 26" end to end are 1/4 * 6 inch flat stock, as is the main portion of the front of the bumper where the winch actually mounts.
The crossmember running perpendicular to the arms is also 1/4*6. I have a total of 52.00 in this plus my time, which right now I have almost 7 1/2 hours in it!
Pight now it will be held to the jeep with 8 bolts per side. Do yall think this will be enough? The driver side will use the steering box bolts plus another 5. This is counting the thin sheet metal holes at the front of the truck to which the stock bumper was hanging from. Yall reckon that this will be strong enough.
I know that this thread is useless without pics but they will be up for the nights out so bare with me.
EDIT Pics Below!
The only thing right now that I don't totally like is how far it sticks out from the front of my truck. But with the warn 8274 it is kinda hard to snug it up too tight without cutting the grill, which is already slam full of Power steering coolers, condensors, and my aux. tranny cooler. So it really was not much of an option, plus I did not want to cut, so I guess I will live with it
Anyways Yall tell me what yall think and if you think that I need to change anything.
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