MDB Bumper Installed

by **JoeyT** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:27 pm

My bumper and skid plates came in 2 weeks ago. Just got them back from the paint shop yesterday and installed them today. Thanks Mike! They look great.

YouTube Videos · by **Trail X** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 5:52 pm

Wow that looks great! What lights are embedded in there?

by **bartonmd** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:14 pm

Wow, that really looks good! Thanks!

James, they are some 6" Hellas (that have a 5" lenses, so they fit in my tube) and some other brand of something like your micro DEs...

Mike

by **JoeyT** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:24 pm

The minis are the hella micro de and the large ones are kc slimlites.

by **bgwolfpack** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 6:28 pm

JoeyT you should be proud.

Mike your angles are starting to look stealth! Awesome!

TORCHWOOD cut across the front of that puppy would be cool. :thumleft:

by **Flying Monkey** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:16 pm

That looks REALLY nice! Definitly putting money together for 1 or the winch bumper. Leaning more towards winch bumper for ease of recovery

by **MrSmithsTB** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:30 pm

Hot damn, the lines of the 3" bumper are perfect. Nice!

by **DmccartneyFF2TB** » Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:51 pm

Sharp looking.

by **bartonmd** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:25 am

Wow, that looks way better on the computer screen than it did on my phone, even!

The light holes really turned out great, if I do say so myself! Cut a piece of pipe at the angle of the front of the bumper, trace it inside and outside on the front, plasma cut in between the lines (and clean up), put the pipe on from the rear, seam weld around the front, angle grind and die grind the weld and radius smooth, then 4.5" flap disk the big ones and rotary die grinder flap disk the small ones... One set of holes takes me ~2-3 hours to do, start to finish... IMO, frenching them in adds a little something to the "hole saw and roll a piece of sheet metal and tack it in behind" method...

Mike

YouTube Videos · by **Trail X** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:41 am

MrSmithsTB wrote:Hot damn, the lines of the 3" bumper are perfect. Nice!

That TB has a 3" body lift? Doesn't look it for some reason...

by **bartonmd** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:43 am

JamesDowning wrote:That TB has a 3" body lift?

God, I hope so!

by **MrSmithsTB** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 8:54 am

Maybe he did body lift only? Or it could just be the angle. A build thread would help :poke:

Mike...Between this one and JamesDub's's's's, I am sold on the 3" bumper.

by **JoeyT** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:48 am

I have a 3" body lift and the 2" rough country suspension lift with 285-75/16 tires. I gotta get around to making a build thread. Need some more pics first. I'll try to make one this weekend.

YouTube Videos · by **Trail X** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:28 am

MrSmithsTB wrote:Maybe he did body lift only? Or it could just be the angle. A build thread would help

Must just be the angle + the sliders... it really does look good.

Lets see some pictures from the trail next!

by **Gordinho80** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:48 am

That's a shiny bumper. Looks good. I wonder if my Hella 500s will fit in the bumper like that....

by **bartonmd** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:51 am

Gordinho80 wrote:That's a shiny bumper. Looks good. I wonder if my Hella 500s will fit in the bumper like that....

A 5" lense is about all the larger that works well, IMO... His are "6-inch lights" but the lense was only a hair over 5", so they worked... Any bigger and you get into the corners, which would make it a real PITA...

Mike

by **Mooseknuckle** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:42 am

very nice!

Offroad Trailblazers and Envoys