I took some pictures throughout the process, so figured I post them to help other who may be interested.

It's an extremely technical process, requiring mad geometry skills and at least one PHD in Engineering. Job will be made easier if there is a rocket scientist that lives down the street.

Step by step breakdown (try and keep up, please...)


- Look at pics on the google
- Drink case of beer
- Use cardboard from beer case to make some templates
- Plasma out the frame brackets
- Mount frame brackets to frame
- Plate in the area
- Make holes for winch
- Mount winch
- Butcher the grille
- Drink more beer
- Eyeball some marks onto some tubing and bend it up
- Have guy who's drank the LEAST amount of beer stand back and tell you when it looks good
- Weld up tubing
- Done. Celebrate with a beer


All joking aside, this was a quick easy bumper for my D2 winter rig that I picked up for CHEAP a few weeks ago. I wanted something simple, lightweight, and high clearance.
I think we only picked up the tape measure 2 or 3 times... Just went with the "looks good" technique.
Plan to do a rear bumper to match next week, so stay tuned...


Here are some pics:

 

 

 

Not a huge fan of tube bumpers but you did a hell of a job on this nice work!

 

Very solid work. I bet if you just put plates over the gaps the tubes made it'd look great. Either way nice work!

 

Love the stoutness of mine, disillusioned with approach angle and aesthetics.... You've inspired me.

 

Funny I was thinking the same thing

 

You guys may be on to something! I'll play around with that idea this weekend.

Hoping to start cutting on the rear of the D2 as well. Going to be very high clearance...

 

Whatever you decide I look forward to checking out the results and I'm jealous you have a plasma

 

If you're looking for high clearance, I'd like to see what you can do based off the greg davis design. I'm sure you could come up with a nice version of it.