Nate's 04 Tacoma

Hey all!

Well my wife thought she would get me a Warn M8000 for christmas She's amazing! Now it's time to build a bumper to house the Winch. My initial thoughts are a tube bumper since thats what I had built before.

I started by welding 1/4" angle between the front frame rails. This will be a good backing for the winch/bumper mount to bolt to and stiffen up the assembly. Next I fabbed together the winch holder and bumper base. I cut off the old side bumper mounts and beefed them up to 1/4". I also welded taps to follow the frame back and catch 4 more bolts at the tow hooks.

Here are the pics of my progress so far... Please ask questions I'd be happy to answer.

 

Today I'll be picking up some tubing to finish off the bumper....
Here is what I have in mind please forgive me for the crappy drafting

 

looking good! what kind of suspension do you have to hold up the winch?

 

Well so far I'm just running the stock springs with a I believe a toytec spacer......I'd love to eventually run a set of racerunner or ICON's but theres many options out there. I've also been pondering the idea of robbing the mini axle from my 83 1st gen and doing a SAS.... Who know's for now I'm running the stock springs

 

Time for an update! Here are some pics of how it's looking with the winch secured and half painted tell me what ya think.

 

very nice man, not really a fan of that turn signal tiptied on the side tho

 

Thanks man! Lights are next on my list...

 

Off road lights? Look here, great prices on a group buy right now

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/gr...ffroad-hid-group-buy-starting-now-2012-a.html

 

WOW!!! great deal for some HID's I'm looking into those asap! Thanks for the link.

 

looks great. nice work