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Originally Posted by FJAggie07
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And, Im not clicking that at workQuote:
Originally Posted by FJAggie07
It lights up at night. I am gonna get one for my bronco its gonna be sweet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snatch Adams
dont weld to the frame on a new vehicle hell or any vehicle unless completely neccessary, it sucks major ass when you want to change something and have to grind it off.
I got my new winch and bumper on this weekend, complete pain in the ass, It bolted on to studs that were sticking out of the frame for the original bumper and then had frame supports that were completely ******-rigged and had to be drilled out and use about 5 washers as shims, but after all that and about 4 hours I got the bumper on, the winch in and wired and my PIAA lights in and wired and I do have to say it looks pretty fawking badass. Here are the pics...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6558.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6556.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6559.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG6561.jpg
Thats a great looking bumper, probably one of the best looking ones out there..
you gotta quit takin pictures of it in the PG, that thing needs to see some trails :flipoff2:
btw, nice bumper and kudos on the install.
I know, I know, but when I am in Dallas working over breaks it is where it gets parked.Quote:
Originally Posted by DRAGOONRANCH
It will see the trails this weekend, going out to BMRA with Toyota Trail Riders (TLCA chapter up here in dallas) for the Lone Star Jamboree. Its Gonna be badass! whole weekend of camping and wheeling, get their friday morning and leave sunday afternoon. Can't ask for a better weekend to test out the new bumper and winch.
Looks badass. I was planning on making it out to LSJ with the TTORA guys, but the gf won a trip to Nashville all inclusive, so have fun.Quote:
Originally Posted by FJAggie07
Alright little update for this thread.
I finished my sliders this weekend, you know the ones I started back in september...
I welded them up to be completely bolt on in the bolt holes designed and made for the factory sliders. Now I just have to paint them and they will be done.
They started out like this
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...r/CIMG0149.jpg
Ended up like this...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6895.jpg
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6904.jpg
And this...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6902.jpg
And this...
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/CIMG6901.jpg
100% homemade and fabbed, one of a kind... They took a long time but here they are.
those look really good. you might consider gusseting the plates though so they dont flex up into the body.
These gonna get welded on or bolted. Yes, I do see the bolt in the bottom of it, just no holes in the top.
Yeah there are holes in the top too, when I was taking the pictures I only had like two bolts in because I was just trying to get them on to see where I needed to place the slider on the other side to tack it up, so i could pull it back off and finish it.
Now each slider is bolted to my frame with 8 bolts each, 2 on each arm, and they are grade 10.9 bolts (maybe a little overkill but oh well)
And as far as gusseting the arms, I wanted to do it, but the way I ended up making the plates with the top bolt hole right above the arm, it is going to be a bit of a ***** to gusset. I could do two per arm, one on each side of the bolt hole, but then I would never get them bolted up. I am still thinking about it. Right now I just put two beads on every weld and hopefully they are strong enough :gigem:
I ran into the same problem with an after-thought about gussets. I ended up just putting 2 gussets on each mounting plate in a v-pattern on the top side, which is really the only side you need to worry about. Left enough room to get in there with a socket to bolt them up, and it worked out fine.
And I only bolted my on with 4 g8's per side, but my mounting plates were u-shaped
10.9's are metric equall to grade 8 SAE
BTW they look good, I would jack up on them to make sure that they can't deflect enough to touch the body Nothing worse that the sliders pinning your doors shut