I was tired of looking at my bumper with one missing fog light and the other hanging, so I went to take the other out and remove the assemblies altogether - but ended up taking it a step a further...

Took off the lower bumper, removed fogs, cut bumper ends, forever blacked the bumper ends, added middle bumper piece.

I love it, and now I don't need to spend big dolla's on an aftermarket bumper...until I need a winch of course!


Pictures: 1-before, 2-after removing lower bumper (fangs look), 3-after cutting end pieces, 4-after adding middle bumper piece, 5-complete after forever black

 

Dude, that is awesome.
Looks great.
How did you trim it?

 

Thanks, I am proud.
Razor blade...just made a pilot cut along the crease, went through the cut again with light pressure, then cut right through quite easily.

 

Excellent job! I think I will tackle this one mine as I have a similar appearance issue with my '96.

Our trucks ain't heavy though....it's not like they buckle 3 to 4 ton ramps or anything.

Thanks for the pics!

 

That does look good! I'm still trying to decide whether to repair my right front fog light trim, or lose the lower trim completely. I would so miss the fog lights though.

PS. I am jealous of you actually being able to work on your vehicle and not deal with a foot of snow!

 

Hah! What's snow?!?!
I obviously vote for hacking the fogs off!

Advantages: free, no cost to fix/repair/replace expensive fogs, better approach angle, better mpg's with weight loss and you can always add more lights!

 

you dont need a special bumper for a winch. look at DAP's hidden winch mount. straight to the frame and now you trimmed the bumper you don't have to worry about cutting a whole for the fairlead

 

looks good man, that was the first thing i did to my disco.

 

Because I am to lazy to search for this myself can you post a link to this hidden winch mount please?

 

http://www.dap-inc.com/acc/app/d2/d2_jack-winch.shtml

about 1/2 way down the page

http://www.muddyoval.com/articles/di...inch/index.htm is a how-to

Urban Panzer has a write up here:
http://www.discovery2.co.uk/winch.html