Front and rear bumpers
- Thread starter 88woody
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- Westminster, SoCal
Inisadow said:
If that's a set I have seen before, you will have to fab yourself item #5 as it's not included with the set.
- Location
- Torrance, CA
No problem man. A lot of the after market sets do not include items 5 (as Kejtar said) and 28, although both of those are really easy to make yourself, so I wouldn't let that get you down.Inisadow said:
As for the rear most bolt, there is a hole on each "frame" rail for it, I believe I used a 9/16" bolt (with washers and a nut) for it, grade 8. Measure how large you need, I forget the measurment, but try to get close to the length you need, if it's longer you will have to trim it to clear the alternator on the RH side (don't ask me how I learned that :dunce: )
Sequoia
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- West Sacramento, CA
I had (have?) a Smittybuilt tube bumper on the front of my MJ, and it only used three bolts per side. However, it has no tow points.
GSequoia said:
Jay3XJ+
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- Houston, TX
As Promised Pics
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/[email protected]/
Look under 2000 XJ
I agree on using all the original hardware. I fabed mine to use it...but I had the factory brackets to copy.
http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/[email protected]/
Look under 2000 XJ
I agree on using all the original hardware. I fabed mine to use it...but I had the factory brackets to copy.
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kelly klassen
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- British Columbia
88woody,
I was in the same boat as you a little while back. Like anything, it's all in the prep. First thing I did after fromulating in my head what I wanted to acheive was lay down some cardboard on the floor under the front end and sat down with a plumb bob and measuring tape and mapped out the front end of the jeep including mouting points and holes and such. Then I sat down at the computer with R14 for a number of nights and went to town and played around until I got myself confused on a couple of the pieces. A 50% model in cardboard fixed that. I drew and dimensioned each piece of the bumper and took it into a welding shop and had them plasma cut out each piece which I then fit and welded together. The only thing I might do differently as far as the designing stage goes would be to make pieces so that one does not overlap the other at the corners. At an outside corner/edge, make the two pieces so that they touch corner to corner. This leaves a gap which you can fill with weld to form a stronger joint and less grinding. Mine turned out pretty good. I can't say I'm all that impressed with the bumper of a buddy of mine who tried to pencil and paper it without really looking closely and considering what he was designing. He overlooked a lot of areas and had to fix it on the fly. I've got some pics of the in-process and finished if you're interested. Best of luck.
-kelly :canada:
I was in the same boat as you a little while back. Like anything, it's all in the prep. First thing I did after fromulating in my head what I wanted to acheive was lay down some cardboard on the floor under the front end and sat down with a plumb bob and measuring tape and mapped out the front end of the jeep including mouting points and holes and such. Then I sat down at the computer with R14 for a number of nights and went to town and played around until I got myself confused on a couple of the pieces. A 50% model in cardboard fixed that. I drew and dimensioned each piece of the bumper and took it into a welding shop and had them plasma cut out each piece which I then fit and welded together. The only thing I might do differently as far as the designing stage goes would be to make pieces so that one does not overlap the other at the corners. At an outside corner/edge, make the two pieces so that they touch corner to corner. This leaves a gap which you can fill with weld to form a stronger joint and less grinding. Mine turned out pretty good. I can't say I'm all that impressed with the bumper of a buddy of mine who tried to pencil and paper it without really looking closely and considering what he was designing. He overlooked a lot of areas and had to fix it on the fly. I've got some pics of the in-process and finished if you're interested. Best of luck.
-kelly :canada:
- Location
- Westminster, SoCal
88woody said:
5 and 28 reinforce and help with the side pulls.
ChuckD
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- Location
- Kerman, CA
Updated my website with PDF versions of the bulkhead mounts.
Renegade Jpr
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- Location
- Corona, California
Here are the mounting brakets for my bumper...talk about beefy! 
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