Bumper Project

[darring70]

Last Saturday I went to the NY Autoshow and I saw a nice bumper on a Dodge truck, I tough... I want that bumper on my TB, Let's see if I can make it.
The pictures are kind of dark and bumper is very shiny

[Nakashige]

Looks like a fusion or roadarmor

[bartonmd]

Cool!

Tips, etc. check out this thread: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4026

Mike

[The Roadie]

..bumper is very shiny

You need to carry a can of spray-on mud to "enhance" that ugly shininess.

[darring70]

Lol, I know I like the design but not the shinines

[Trail X]

Pretty sure that's the same company that made AlekG's bumper.



I forget who made it... and his photobucket is blocked to me at work...

[mikekey]

Jebus, that is a huge honking bumper on the front of that thing.

[bartonmd]

Yeah, it's a bumper that's adapted from a Toyota something or another, that he had his local fab guys put different mounts onto.

Mike

[Trail X]

Made by Fab Fours for an FJ:

http://forums.trailvoy.com/archive/inde ... 33064.html

[v7guy]

Darring- where's the foam board mock up pics?

[mikekey]

Made by Fab Fours for an FJ:

http://forums.trailvoy.com/archive/inde ... 33064.html

I'd love to view that, if only they didn't ban my ip.

[navigator]

fortunately for you, the are all photobucket images.
You can go here to view his album

http://m97.photobucket.com/albumview/al ... g.html?o=0

[Trail X]

I wish Alek had migrated his threads over here. We started ORTB about the same time as AlekG began slinking into the abyss. I think he's a member here, but only made a few posts.

[mikekey]

I noticed that. He had a nice setup. I see he made it to TECORE 9 though.

[Trail X]

Yeah, I think he was at the second one. The one that occurred right after we started ORTB.

He was a good resource... did a ton to his truck well before anyone else was even thinking about it. He was the guy that paved the way for 4.56 gears!

[NC_IslandRunner]

Just checked his website, he hasn't updated it in over a year, did notice he had been on TrailVoy up to last November. That must have been lonely...

[mikekey]

Sometimes life makes you busy. I've had that happen twice now since moving.

[darring70]

fortunately for you, the are all photobucket images.
You can go here to view his album

http://m97.photobucket.com/albumview/al ... g.html?o=0

Looks similar but not the same, I will try to build this bumper, it is hard to see all the deatails in the picture and the stupid shiny paint makes it worst

[TBYODA]

Ok this might be kind of a newbie question on these huge bumpers I see on the top rigs. Looking at them I can understand the recovery needs, winch, tow hook ups and the great front end protection but seems counter productive with huge additional front weight load. Which in turn requires heavier front struts/ springs. Of course there is the cool factor. but would you not want to keep the weight down?
Sorry if this has been covered in another post just have not come across it yet.

[v7guy]

ideally you want to keep the weight as low as possible while still maintaining protection and recovery at the front. Barton has done a really good job of this... myself, not so much ( my bumper is a heavy bitch) lol

everything is a trade off and like most things in life you have to pick your battles. I was grateful for my bumper last TECORE when I hit the bumper on a rock that completely stopped me despite the momentum I had coming over a little hill.