Bear
09-20-2010, 10:50 AM
I had a member from Mississippi come up so that I could build him a set of tube doors and set of bumpers as well as a two piece skid plate. We were also going to try and figure out my truck while working on the fab work.
Needless to say my truck got little attention and we ran out of time before finishing both bumpers. We did manage to finish the tube doors, front bumper and get him a good start on the skid plates. The tube doors turned out nice, especially after the powder coat was applied. But they cost us a full day as adjustments for them became a real pain.
If we would have been able to get the doors to mount up immediately, we would have remained on schedule to get the rear bumpr on, BearAttack possibly running and make the Badlands on Saturday. But as it turned out, one day missed of fab work put us behind almost two days.
here are a few teaser shots.
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/Bear4x4/welding%20projects/Andrewsbumperandtubedoors023.jpg
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/Bear4x4/welding%20projects/welding002-1.jpg
To view the full album of images of the work we did you can either go to my facebook wall (thought I would never type that in a post) or go here to the photobucket folder:
http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/Bear4x4/welding%20projects/
A little background on the front bumper. Andrew is planning on incorporating a removable hitch plate styled winch. So we had to design the front bumper to withstand that type of abuse. I think the mounting frame will work nicely to keep the bumper attached to the truck and the receiver I designed should be strong enough to pull an elephant over. There are photos of the how we securd the receiver in the photos. But the basics of it was the receiver was welded both front and rear of the face plate of the bumper, then gussestted by two 3"X3"X1/4" pieces of angle iron completed welded to the top plate of the bumper. The D ring mounts were als welded to the bumper face plate as well as to the mounting frame.
Tube doors were powder coated by Indy powder coat and we used Toyota latches inside some custom boxes I built and welded to the doors. Jeep crasher actually bent the tubing for us for the tube doors, and I think he did a great job!
Needless to say my truck got little attention and we ran out of time before finishing both bumpers. We did manage to finish the tube doors, front bumper and get him a good start on the skid plates. The tube doors turned out nice, especially after the powder coat was applied. But they cost us a full day as adjustments for them became a real pain.
If we would have been able to get the doors to mount up immediately, we would have remained on schedule to get the rear bumpr on, BearAttack possibly running and make the Badlands on Saturday. But as it turned out, one day missed of fab work put us behind almost two days.
here are a few teaser shots.
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/Bear4x4/welding%20projects/Andrewsbumperandtubedoors023.jpg
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/Bear4x4/welding%20projects/welding002-1.jpg
To view the full album of images of the work we did you can either go to my facebook wall (thought I would never type that in a post) or go here to the photobucket folder:
http://s208.photobucket.com/albums/bb211/Bear4x4/welding%20projects/
A little background on the front bumper. Andrew is planning on incorporating a removable hitch plate styled winch. So we had to design the front bumper to withstand that type of abuse. I think the mounting frame will work nicely to keep the bumper attached to the truck and the receiver I designed should be strong enough to pull an elephant over. There are photos of the how we securd the receiver in the photos. But the basics of it was the receiver was welded both front and rear of the face plate of the bumper, then gussestted by two 3"X3"X1/4" pieces of angle iron completed welded to the top plate of the bumper. The D ring mounts were als welded to the bumper face plate as well as to the mounting frame.
Tube doors were powder coated by Indy powder coat and we used Toyota latches inside some custom boxes I built and welded to the doors. Jeep crasher actually bent the tubing for us for the tube doors, and I think he did a great job!