THE BUMPER BUILD for rear of a 98 e-350 van

[sweetk30]

well rubber bumpers showed up today so i drilled 8 1/2" holes in the face to bolt them in place.

also drilled and tapped the holes for the top plate down to the bumper. also welded in washers to the expanded metal and drilled / tapped the holes to hole it down also.

then removed it from the van and got ready for epoxy primer friday am . . . finaly done with it.

pic #1-2 = rubber bumpers on the back. stick out around 2.5" off face. ad 6" tall by 8" wide the way i have them mounted.
pic #3-5 = expanded metal grate with 4 filled in sections via washer welded in to hold the grate down in place. and also test fit of trailer plug fit and flow for the area. gona add a little hat over the plug in the am before primer goes on to keep anyone from stepping on it with there big feet.

we decided that we will be tinting to the dark gray for used on ther bumpers the spray on bead coating stuff and doing a fine texture not chunky.

 

[sweetk30]

primed up today just waiting for the liner product to show up to paint them.

also going to do front bumper so thay both match color and texture.

added some extra expanded metal to front bumper open hole center for protectyion from crap getting in to rad/ a/c cond unit as farm duty its going around lots of stuff. and gives it a little bling bling got to get pic of that tho.

 

[sweetk30]

2 coats of tintable raptor liner on today . used a little mix of vw gray and toyota gray with metal flake we had left over from few jobs to tint the color we wanted. come out close to o.e ford gray bumpers.

also got the front bumper pics with expanded metal inplace.

next is paint the top and center grate black also the d-rings will be black also. and install back on van.

but first is replace the lower rear quarter panels that rust out on these vans. not bad like most around here but vary solid still. got to get pics of that also.

 

[livid4dirt]

Very nice!

 

[magik235]

Outstanding outcome.

 

[mpio13]

tough looking!

 

[sweetk30]

on the way to full assembled . few teeser pics.

still got to paint the drings black and bolt down the top plate and reinstall the trailer hitch .

oh ya and patch under door were small rust spot was. and if you look little more and spot it huge cut out of rust on both sides. got massive patch panels for them tho.