catpower

Took a little longer than I wanted (like time span, not actual time I spent on it). Work and trying to finish my house to sell has kept me very busy the last few weeks. Anyway, I used an AutoCad template I got from a guy on another Jeep forum. It got me the basic sizing for the middle plate and the top of the bumper. But once I transfered everything to foam board and "built" it, I wasn't happy with it. I ended up making it shorter, and made the corners a lot more robust that the original plan. All in all, I think I'm happy with how it came out. It's going on my Father in law's 07 JK. He lives about 3 hours away from me, so it's going to be a couple weeks before I get to see how it fits and looks. Can't wait!

For what it's worth, heres a run down of what I used/did. It's 3/16" plate. I used gussets from the top to the sides of the bumper to make it strong. I also cut another piece of plate, burned 1 1/2" holes through it and welded it to the original structure between the bumper mounts. When I boxed in the corners I used gussets to tie in the boxing plates. I used 2x4" square tube for mounts, and my D ring mounts strattle the bumper mounts. Please let me know how I did!

HELLBENDER-JK

Here's my compliment, make me one!

scooby snacks

Looks good... can you post pictures of the backside so we can see your gussets?

catpower

I thought about building 2 or 3 more to sell. Problem is it took me about 30 hours to do this one. I just don't have that kind of time. Plus, I want to see how it holds up when it goes to Moab in a couple months. If I get time later this year I may build some. I need to buy a plasma cutter first too. I borrowed a friends Miller, and it made this way easier!

sick jk

Looks awesome. Almost like rock hard bumper. Great job

Puregolf

Looks great

catpower

Picture doesn't show it well, but heres kind of what I did. I have 6 3" long 1/4" thick gussets across the span between the mounts. Then I used 2 custom ones behind the plating in the corners. Where I boxed it in on the corners, I made sure I welded each plate to each gusset. If that makes sence?

catpower

Trust me, if I did, I'd make it worth your while Thanks btw! Having some idea of where to start really helped on this project! I'll make sure to get some mounted pics up when I get up there to put it on.