Very cool I really like the front bumper, I wonder if you can make a pad for a winch?? I have one that needs to be installed.

Yes you can. It's what i had to do since I had my front frame horns chopped and re-enforced. The Fabricator used thick plate to reinforce them and I could no longer fit a winch between the frame rails (otherwise that's where mine would have been mounted.

Anyway, you can see how I did my winch plate below...




Yeah it's a bit overbuilt but then again, I'd rather it be that than underbuilt especially since I don't have the facilities to do a full structural analysis of my design. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

I like it! Very nice work <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Thanks. Trying to do the whole KISS methodology on this design.

My friend Mike is a Navy certified welder (underwater, etc) and he welded it using an Arc welder we borrowed for the day from Carlos. This was built using a simple section of C-channel angle iron that was already the correct length which I then cut the corners off to fit in the space available. After welding it in place, we re-enforced with triangles of 1/4' plate I bought from OSH and cut into a square then triangles. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

Did you build the bumper itself or is it a premade unit?
Im thinking of getting a hydro tube bender from harbor fright and making my own. I like this design you have.

The bumper is a Smittybilt clone... Literally identical to the smittybilt.

Is there a part# for this one that you know of?
I like how you renforced it also.

We essentially chopped back the frame horns to the stock mounting holes and then plated them all around and back to the rest of the frame using cut to match 1/4-3/8" plate.

I don't know the smittybilt part number but IIRC, it's for the Jeep JK. You can easily tell though because their bumpers differ from model to model. The JK front mounts to a flat surface on the front of the rig rather than down the sides of the frame rails like our bumpers.

I'll have to doublecheck my rear bumper to see how it mounts up but IIRC it mounts on the sides of the frame rails unlike the front bumpers. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />