what do you think of my bumper?

I needed a front recovery point and bumper prices are so high so i decided to make one myself. Iv been planning it for the last year, collecting pictures of bumpers id seen and looked at how other people had done it and came up with this.

I picked up an 8 foot 2x4x3/16 for the bumper and some 3/16 plate for the frame brackets.
First i cut and mounted the plates to the frame.




Then to make it simpler i made the middel section first.



Then i made the side pecies they have an 8 degree slope back, i also didnt continue the angle to the ends, instead i stoped it about 2 inches back and cut it flat so i can put a hi lift under it. I used a massive grinder my dad had with a cut off wheel.





Then i took it off, caped the ends, put a reciever in, and solid welded it



I eventually want to get a winch and put it in the reciever so i renforced the back with a peice of angle iron and put some gussets in.



For the d ring tabs i cut 5/16 plate and welded them to both sides of the mouts then drilled through all of them with a 7/8s bit, that really sucked because i couldnt use the drill press.



Then for the mounting points on my jeep i found some pipe that my bolts fit into and drilled the holes out to fit the pipe and welded them in.



After that i grinded it all down, cleaned it and painted it. The finished product.



It took me about 1 week workin on it after work and the weekend. The best part was the cost, 37 for steal, 25 for bolts, and 30 for d rings

Nice job. Good write up too. I wish I knew how to weld. I would love to have a bumper for $100.

Looks good. Should be plenty strong enough.

In your second and third photo you can see the bottom of the radiator support hanging down. I trimed mine where it dips down and bolted on a strip of angle iron. This cleaned up the front and added clearance and protection under the bumper. Nice work and ought to be motivation for the rest to buy a welder and grinder. It's time consuming but fun and easy.

Whats time consuming is waiting a month for a ordered one.
Good Job.

SWEET!

NICE JOB! You've inspired me! I've got the welder and grinder, I just need to figure out where to buy the steel.

sweet! i'm working on a rear bumper with hidden 2500 lb winch

looks pretty similar to the one I built except I put a stinger on mine

I'll give you $100 to make another...

same ill give ya $100 for one.

only two years old...

whitexj98 said:

Then i made the side pecies they have an 8 degree slope back, i also didnt continue the angle to the ends, instead i stoped it about 2 inches back and cut it flat so i can put a hi lift under it. I used a massive grinder my dad had with a cut off wheel.

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What did you do about the crossmember there? Hows its white and stickes below the bumper?

i cut it off sraight off under the bumper for a clean look.

POLAR_JEEP_04 said:

only two years old...

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and still holding up!!

theNAST1EST said:

I'll give you $100 to make another...

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You honestly bumped a thread that is two years old to post that? :banghead:




To the OP, you need a non flux core welder. Your welds look good, but the penetration and splatter are horrible.

Starboard M said:

You honestly bumped a thread that is two years old to post that?

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Sure. The OP not only referred to it in a current thread, but he's quite obviously keeping up with this one.

...but if you want props for trying to flame a guy, I'll admit you were able to read the date very precisely...in the thread I bumped from 2 years ago.


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I'm amused by the thread necromancy...

but I do like the bumper! Only thing I see that I really don't like is the way it's attached to the frame, I'd be worried about those tubes tearing out of the unibody rails. If I was going to do something like this I'd probably weld frame stiffeners on to spread the load a bit more; no sense having a nice strong bumper that will fold your frame up the second it hits anything IMO.

really like this bumper, i will pretty much steal how you did this and build mine haha

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theNAST1EST said:

Sure. The OP not only referred to it in a current thread, but he's quite obviously keeping up with this one.

...but if you want props for trying to flame a guy, I'll admit you were able to read the date very precisely...in the thread I bumped from 2 years ago.


:dunce:

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So you didnt ask him about it in that thread, so you went, searched for this one, and bumped it?


Yes, I want mad props too. It stokes my ego.