This weekend I'm gonna start on my new front bumper. I plan to mount my Ramsey winch behind it and mount the fairlead on the front obviously. The bumper will be deep enough to stand on so I can work under the hood. I know it will be heavy, but shouldn't weigh more than say a ranch hand bumper. I plan to incorporate my winch pendant plug and most likely a marinco plug into the bumper, along with a couple of D-rings. I also plan to build boxes into the top of the bumper for chains, etc. I'll most likely mount fog lights in the bumper too.

My question is this: Since I won't be able to take my bumper off until the new one is nearly finished, does anyone have any dimensions that are vital? Should I put some sort of air dam on the front to scoop air up to the coolers?

I know I need the inside width to clear the lip on the fenders and also the bolt pattern on the mounting flange.

I'll have to make up some of the dimensions as I go.

Ideas?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZJlzeNutgY


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Sorry it wasn't sooner! Hope it helps or at least gives you an idea.

 

Turn your phone next time it gets a better video and we can see more that way. Other than that nice vid. And bumper!

 

Thanks David! That's what I needed. Mine will be a little different, but basically the same. Give me a call man. I've got an idea for our gears.

 

Nice job on the bumper and great idea on posting a vid of you taking measurements.

 

I've been tld once about the hold phone sideways bit, appologies!

 

nahh its ok. I have an iphone too and its just more natural to hold it up.

 

I just pulled mine off and used a piece of luan plywood from home depot and used it as a live template to set all my dimensions then mocked it up with the same material, and had all my cut dimensions for the shear worked out great.

 

so the bumper in this vid is a custom bumper correct? if so it looks nice, im about to build one as well

 

heres my build thread.

https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/1...per-ideas.html

Why cant you take the bumper off? Its 4 bolts, each with a weldnut bracket. You can take off and put on by yourself.

All my parts are on autocad. email me if you have a cad software. browne65@hickorytech.net

I would suggest making your plates for the frame and your shackle plates first. Then make your main section(from frame to frame) then go from there. Depending how fancy your want to get, you'll be cutting your wrists trying to figure out the angles without the bumper off the truck.

let me know if you have autocad.

 

I work In a factory and will be fabbing it in the shop. Can't bring my truck inside for any length of time to take the bumper off.

 

heres dimensions for the mounting plate.



Heres my suggestions. Tack the bumper together. Make sure the winch doesnt go any further back from the grille as you will hit the coolers. Make your mounting plate and shackles like I did


and once you are able to have the bumper off, figure out where you need to torch holes in the bumper to slide the shackle plates thru for final fitment.





OR build your winch cradle and frame mounts, get that where it needs to be and THEN "skin" around that.


I built my bumper where your pulling directly from the frame, not pulling from the bumper. Example: welding d rings onto the bumper, your pulling from the bumper. welding shackle plate to the frame mount plate, your pulling from the frame. I also built a hitch receiver for a portable winch.



As you can see in the picture, I welded square tubing from the hitch receiver over to the shackle plate and put gussets from the tube to shackle plate. This will also pull mostly from the frame.

So in other words if you figure out the spacing from frame to frame, you can make your frame mount plates(3/8) shackle plates(1") and build your winch cradle. Making it so you could take this "bumper frame" and mount it to the truck and run it. Then take your sheet metal and make the bumper itself off your "bumper frame"

 

This might help too.

Main section(2nd to last picture)



the dimensions on the left are the bend lines.(3 bends)

This is the bend template



Not sure if you have acess to a press brake, but these parts could be sheared and welded together.

37 1/2" frame to frame centered

 

Thanks Josh. I'll be using 6"X3" tubing, so I'll have to change a few things around, but can use several things you have there. I can't do the shackles like yours. I can't really explain it but I'll take pictures as I go and it should help to explain itself.

I'll basically be making the mounting plates with 3/4"X4" flat bar brackets extending off the front, gussetted on each side and then welded to the back of the tubing. I'm going to stack 2 pieces of tubing and weld the seams for the center section. The outside sections will taper from 12" to 9". I'm going to put a hitch tube in the center, below the winch fairlead. The D-rings will be welded on directly in the seam of the tubes, right in front of the gussetted brackets. That will essentially make a straight line to the frame.

BTW, everything I have material wise, is drop material from a project at work. 4 pieces of 6"X3" 1/4" wall tubing, 9' each. I took them out of the scrap dumpster. Gotta love working for idiots!

 

I hear ya, but once in a great while i'm the idiot. Its never my fault though

Thumbs up on the hitch under the fairlead. Your going to like not only hooking the trailer up and winching something onto it, but backing that trailer up in tight quarters.