Who has templates.drawings from their home-built bumpers?

[jekquistk5]

Deulings kj. Haha. Good times

 

[Blue85]

Also after building mine and seeing how close the tail gate is to my bumper, that chassis unlimited one must be damn near touching the gate when its down....

Yeah, you pretty much have to set your top plate right on top of the frame rails. But I've heard of rotted out rear body mounts where that still doesn't clear. But your setup (no top plate) pretty much maximizes that clearance.

 

[63chevyll]

Here is mine

 

[MajMike]

Well . . .

Templates? Drawings? I'm lucky I used a measuring tape when I built mine

Especially given that there's at least two major flavors of bumper ends (73-80 and 81+) plus the variations from truck to truck, figure on custom-building your bumper(s) for your specific truck. Also depends on whether you like the pre-runner round-tube style, or the solid-panel/square-tube rock crawler variety.

There's bazillions of threads with good PHOTOS, at least, which you may have already found. 4x4High's gave me some good ideas, and I did my usual over-documentation in a thread about mine. Elsewise, you can just search for "bumper" threads and be inundated.

-- A

I did search and found many great pics, just hoping to get lucky with someone having blueprints, thx to all posters. Mike

 

[ryoken]

sorry for the off-topic, comedic hi-jinks... bumper building tends to be one off stuff if your not buying from kert, ord, etc... ya start with mounts off the horn than tubes, plate, etc off that stuff.. ala foamboard, cardboard, etc...

for premade, kert and ord seem to have nice offerings.. kert's "plate-style bumper" is the nicest out these days for that stuff IMO. the gauntlet and such.. ord's tube is nice if you like that..


fabbing them yourself? pfffft, you don't need us, tape measure, conch shell, mig and a plasma is all ya need..



my chit...

 

[AR_K5]

Oh the irony, after a long hiatus due to the death of my father I came back to show off my new bumper and what was the first topic on the page? Bumpers, so here's mine, I just finished it today. The mounting plate for the 12,000 winch is 3/4" thick (overkill, but it was free), and it's got 8 - 1/2" grade 8 bolts holding it to the frame rails.

 

[MajMike]

Hmmm . . .

Nice bumper AR_K5.

 

[NorCal69]

Or just use your stock bumper as a template..

 

[badmix]

No template. I just told fab shop what I wanted and the built it to the truck.

No matter what, do yourself a favor and install a receiver mount within the bumper, itll make it stronger and you have a place for a portable winch, a step insert or a ball hitch to move trailers/boats around.

 

[dremu]

No matter what, do yourself a favor and install a receiver mount within the bumper, itll make it stronger and you have a place for a portable winch, a step insert or a ball hitch to move trailers/boats around.

QFT. Receiver mounts are the all-purpose attachment point and come in handy at the oddest times. I've seen receiver-mounted benders, blenders, and even porta-potties.

-- A

 

[evolve991]

sorry for the off-topic, comedic hi-jinks... bumper building tends to be one off stuff if your not buying from kert, ord, etc... ya start with mounts off the horn than tubes, plate, etc off that stuff.. ala foamboard, cardboard, etc...

for premade, kert and ord seem to have nice offerings.. kert's "plate-style bumper" is the nicest out these days for that stuff IMO. the gauntlet and such.. ord's tube is nice if you like that..


fabbing them yourself? pfffft, you don't need us, tape measure, conch shell, mig and a plasma is all ya need..



my chit...

Nice Ryoken It's got that Jersey 'don't F wit' me' look

 

[muddysub]

Progress on my rear bumper. It was originally designed in cardboard.