Ok so I have all this in my build thread for the truck but a friend was telling me he was trying to show someone pix of my truck and could not find them google searching so I got thinking I would make a thread for each bumper to help google searchers find different bumper builds
So im just copying and pasting from my build
I started working on the rear bumper tonight all I did was figure out where to cut the bed sides and how I was going to make the mounts and I went and got some nuts to weld into the mount and made the passenger side mount and started the driver here are some pix of the mount un welded
Just for you Ed
So I only got a few hours in on the bumper today and I have to work a double tomorrow so I'll try to get motivated during the week to finish it but here is a pic of what I got so far
Pix from earlier today, I have it all welded up and ready to paint just did not get pix of that yet
More pix with the chassis saver
And I mounted the Hellas with DDM hids but did not wire them yet
Not much but put a coat of black on it tonight and I'll run out and get more paint in the morning so I can try to put it on this week
Ok here are some day time pix and I hacked the exhaust off right after the rear hangers for now but I'm still going to do something with it later and I put the tips on for s&g
Before exhaust chop
After chop
And for anyone interested getting rid of the stock bumper/hitch and adding this bumper gave me 9" more ground clearance at the lowest point on the bumper and that gave me 10* more departure angle
Before bumper hight 21" and 28* departure
After with new bumper is 30" and 38* departure
Not done yet but got a few hours in on it this evening , and I have to cut the latch back off and angle it in some I don't know what I was thinking when I mounted it
I still need 2 more bolts so I can gave all 6 lugs I know I don't need them but I want them and I forgot to weld on the mount for the cb antenna and I'm not to happy with the way the Jerry can holder came out but it works here are some night pix ,I'll get some daytime pix tomorrow
So im just copying and pasting from my build
I started working on the rear bumper tonight all I did was figure out where to cut the bed sides and how I was going to make the mounts and I went and got some nuts to weld into the mount and made the passenger side mount and started the driver here are some pix of the mount un welded
Just for you Ed
So I only got a few hours in on the bumper today and I have to work a double tomorrow so I'll try to get motivated during the week to finish it but here is a pic of what I got so far
Pix from earlier today, I have it all welded up and ready to paint just did not get pix of that yet
Yeah I cut the bedside off
For now it's just off the rest of the bumper but once I put longer leaf springs on I'll make a mount that supports the front more than
More pix with the chassis saver
And I mounted the Hellas with DDM hids but did not wire them yet
Not much but put a coat of black on it tonight and I'll run out and get more paint in the morning so I can try to put it on this week
Ok here are some day time pix and I hacked the exhaust off right after the rear hangers for now but I'm still going to do something with it later and I put the tips on for s&g
Before exhaust chop
After chop
And for anyone interested getting rid of the stock bumper/hitch and adding this bumper gave me 9" more ground clearance at the lowest point on the bumper and that gave me 10* more departure angle
Before bumper hight 21" and 28* departure
After with new bumper is 30" and 38* departure
Not done yet but got a few hours in on it this evening , and I have to cut the latch back off and angle it in some I don't know what I was thinking when I mounted it
I still need 2 more bolts so I can gave all 6 lugs I know I don't need them but I want them and I forgot to weld on the mount for the cb antenna and I'm not to happy with the way the Jerry can holder came out but it works here are some night pix ,I'll get some daytime pix tomorrow