Been building this at work, have about 2 hours into it and it went to powdercoat. Will be back Tuesday...

Started with these brackets I made about 1 year ago:


Then I cut an 8' chunk of 1.75" OD x .095" Wall round tube and bent this up and tacked it into place.


Some more shots




After that I capped the ends, ground them flush, and put the DA to work


Then I bent an upper stinger, and coped the ends to fit, welded in some struts from bracket to the ends (1" OD x .083" Wall). I also took a piece of 12gauge HRPO and set it on the top. Said and done I am pretty happy with the end result. I might modify it to accept a winch someday.

Last thing to do once it gets back is build an aluminum skid for the bottom and wire my lights up.




Coming next! Side bars or Rear Bumper...

 

Im going to make another rear bumper. If I sell this one first. The Rock Rails came out nice though. My tubing notcher came in handy for the rails. I am going to start my bumper when I catch up on manifolds.

 

I love our tubing coper/notcher at work. It's basically a large sander with various sized wheels for the front and a 36 grit belt... I notched my front stinger in about 30 seconds.

My sliders will be quite a bit different than that. I am going to mimic the tube style my bro in law makes, they are built with 1.75" OD x .120" wall.

 

I dont have fancy tools like that at my disposal. My HF $30 worked though.

 

Trust me, if I had to choose between a hole saw notcher in my own shop and the belt coper 15 minutes at a time at work. I'd totally choose the notcher.

 

Do you ever worry about hitting someone with that bumper. I can see why its good for off road, its just i could see that making a real mess of a small child.

 

I don't really ever worry about hitting people. In 12 years of driving I've had once incident recently that almost put me in a rear end situation, and I chose to eat the guard rail instead. If I was gonna hit a vehicle small enough to kill a small child in the backseat, for one I am probably gonna go up over the *** end cause of my skid, and it really isnt gonna matter what I have strapped to the front of the Jeep that thing is gonna eat a Geo Metro anyways.

Any other possibilities are going to involve children out of a vehicle, and they shouldnt be in the street in the first place.

 

If you hit a child with the stock bumper the carnage will be the same.

 

hit a kid with each and post picture for comparison

 

Damm that thing could take out mail boxes like a champ