This is the push bar i have installed what do you guys think

 

that is one of the flimsy ones, those are more meant as a place to house off road lights so they dont get beat off the bumper by sticks IMO, the one jimbo has doesnt look like one that bolts to the bumper and its alot "beefier" then that one as well

 

Depends how its mounted. The ones that my friend and I both made are the same basic design, but ours bolt through the bumper to the bumper brackets, and underneath to the frame.

 

yeah it was made just to bolt to the bumper but I made brackets on the inside of the bumper so it attaches directly to the frame

 

You should be just fine. That is exactly how we built ours, and as I said earlier, they can take a beatin'.

 

big-ugly have you ever hit anything with your push bar

 

Smacked a deer with it once, was able to slow down to about ~20. And I use it to push stuck trucks out. The latest endeavor was a 88 f350 Crew Cab dually diesel. - with the boughten one on the 95

The one I built on the 89 has hit 2 deer, no issues. And my buddies is the same (I copied his design). He pushed a trunk all the way to the back window of a buick lesabre.

 

nice i had a push bar like that it ate 2 civics but the chevy d max claimed it and the truck's life

 

Glad to hear it got to claim a few civics before it went down! Sorry to hear that a ch*vy got the best of it though.

 

yeah but if you get t-bones in the passerger side of a ext cab f250 by a duelly not much you can do, i walked away with out a scratch the other guy didnt get a chance to get out of the truck he ran the freaking light cops showed up and he looked like a raccoon with a busted lip and nose lol

 

I got t-boned in my 89 2 summers back. Funny part is, I was heading to a truck-demo. I damn neared kicked in my windshield and painted a number on it (glad I didn't now). The guy hit me hard neough to spin that big old truck all the way around 180*, in a 35 mph zone.. seems like he was going a little over 35. haha.

 

he bent the frame on mine i was going ten he was going 60 my truck looked like a horse shoe

 

Nothin' but body damage to the box on mine. Where he hit it (right behind the cab) and on the other side where I wiped out a stop-sign when he spun me around.

 

big-ugly, how bout gettin some pics of those guards? I'm lookin to build one soon.

 

yeah but i took that damn chevy down with me