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Installing a CJ/YJ bumper on a JK?

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Old 03-15-2011, 03:33 PM
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Default Installing a CJ/YJ bumper on a JK?

Hello Jeep owners.
Im a huge old school Jeep lover and was wondering would it be possible to throw on the front metal bumper from a CJ or YJ on a new JK without to much modification?
What kind of work am I looking at to pull this off?
I got the idea after seeing the K8 I think its called military jeep with the Yj style bumper and really getting a hard on looking at that thing : )

I was planning on making the front bumper a stubby but I would rather do this instead.
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I am also an old school Jeep lover having built several CJ rigs over the last many years. While I can understand the looks of the old style bumper, I have to ask why. What would be the utility in doing this? In answering your question, I don't see that it would be all that hard to fit up, but you probably have to consider the air bag sensors when putting the very simple CJ-style bumper on the frame rails of your JK.
Still...I wonder why you are even thinking of doing this.
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Some serious modification will be needed to do this as the front frame mounts are considerably wider than the actual CJ/YJ bumper. There was someone on here who put a TJ bumper on. Try the search function, maybe it will come up.



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