homemade bumper
MMNC (SS)(Ret)
Joined: Mar 2004
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From: SE Georgia
personally your chalk-up looks pretty damn killer.
perhaps cap the ends and make it air-tight. put some quick disconnect fittings for air hoses. use it as a air tank/reservoir. would be super convenient for offroad or a work truck.
to save your time/effort on cutting and grinding I suggest you align the sketch to one side completely. that will also give you excess material for other uses without having to buy more
perhaps cap the ends and make it air-tight. put some quick disconnect fittings for air hoses. use it as a air tank/reservoir. would be super convenient for offroad or a work truck.
to save your time/effort on cutting and grinding I suggest you align the sketch to one side completely. that will also give you excess material for other uses without having to buy more
Laughing Gas
Joined: Feb 2016
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Why do people go through all the effort of building a good bumper just to tack on lights that will need to be replaced every time you use the bumper?
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From: Rhode Island
Because they like the look? They're $20 lights that take 1 minute to replace. Not really a big deal. Chances are any hit hard enough to break the aluminum and glass lights are going to require repainting the bumper anyways.
Anyways FTruckBrasil, your bumper design looks great. I look forward to seeing the final result.
Anyways FTruckBrasil, your bumper design looks great. I look forward to seeing the final result.
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From: Central Mississippi
Nice project.
Your English is better than anybody here can speak or write Portuguese.
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Laughing Gas
Joined: Feb 2016
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Because they like the look? They're $20 lights that take 1 minute to replace. Not really a big deal. Chances are any hit hard enough to break the aluminum and glass lights are going to require repainting the bumper anyways.
Anyways FTruckBrasil, your bumper design looks great. I look forward to seeing the final result.
Anyways FTruckBrasil, your bumper design looks great. I look forward to seeing the final result.
If you like the look that much better and rarely wind up in situations where you back into trees then it's probably worth the tradeoff. On the other hand it's really not that much extra work and if that's the difference between lights that survive a 3pt on a dirt road and lights that don't then the extra work is worth it.
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With the lights outside the plane of the bumper it's not going to take a hard hit, just one unlucky fence post, tree or whatever. It's barely any extra work to mount them at least inside the face of the bumper.
If you like the look that much better and rarely wind up in situations where you back into trees then it's probably worth the tradeoff. On the other hand it's really not that much extra work and if that's the difference between lights that survive a 3pt on a dirt road and lights that don't then the extra work is worth it.
If you like the look that much better and rarely wind up in situations where you back into trees then it's probably worth the tradeoff. On the other hand it's really not that much extra work and if that's the difference between lights that survive a 3pt on a dirt road and lights that don't then the extra work is worth it.
Laughing Gas
Joined: Feb 2016
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I drive a 20yo truck and treat it like one. It has bumpers. I use them. If I'm gonna build a bumper that's way beefier than stock you can bet I'll use it. If I'm backing up to a dock I back until I bump the dock. If I'm backing up to a tree I do the same thing. If I wanted to drive something fragile I have a 90s compact that's much better at being fragile (finger size tie rods that bend when you hit a pothole just right).
