Bored Clerk's Rear Bumper Build

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#rearbumperinspiration
Lol

 

Nice! Welcome aboard. I should have updates tomorrow. Hopefully updates about actually doing something right for a change!

 

Looks good so far, at least your taking the time to do it right, is tempting to rush thru these things sometimes.
You're post may say, but are you doing a swing out tire carrier?

 

Never mind dual swing outs. Awesome, same thing I'm thinking of doing.

 

Mid day update...because I'm taking a break!



F'd upectomy is complete! I cut off the pieces I want to use from my sad first attempt and I made a new bracket for the hitch.


Cut two of these off. I'll clean them up and get them tacked up to the 2x2 square tubing. It will be very important to make them equal, straight and exactly 4" overall height.


New upper hitch bracket. This will attach to the underside of the main 2x2 square tube. It will be gusseted quite a bit. This won't be the only thing holding it in place! This will also be the main recovery point on the rear of the truck so I'll do my best to make it stout.

I'll be back at it this afternoon. More updates will follow. I imagine I'll get all the pieces cleaned up, fit and ready for welding by EOD. I would also like to get the main 1.75" round tubing lower support bent today. We'll see how it goes.

 

Bend two while you're at it, I'll buy one for my bumper build...

 

Sure, no sweat. It be good practice to figure out if I could bend two that are the same!

 

Awesome thanks bud

 

I'm on my way to pick up a magnetic angle finder. Then I'll make a quick bracket to clamp it to the tubing.

 

Can't wait to see how this turns out, looks like it'll be one of the nicer swing out builds.
I'm sure I'll be robbing some ideas..

 

Rob all you want! Here's the last update for the day. I'll be back on it tomorrow night.


Have to get pretty far away with my phone to take a picture of the whole thing. Consequently, you can't see a damn thing! Trust me, it's magnificent.

 

I see where this is going now, that's gonna look sweet!

 

Sub'd. For outcome. Looking good!

 

Get back on the shop man can't wait to see where this goes!

 

Haha, I will! I'm waiting for a few things to show up then I'll get working. Plus, we're heading to the coast to camp in the Honda Element then go surfing. I may get some work done this weekend still, though.

 

Sweet! My ARB front bumper is coming Monday, then it's on with my rear bumper build. Enjoy the surf man!

 

ARB bumper!? Cool!

I'll have more updates this week for sure! I stole away a little time today to clean my workbench. It was a total mess!


Much better!


Cut two fill plates. That's progress, right?

A little helpful hint when using a hacksaw. When you cut something with a hacksaw you can get some horrendous screeching from vibrations.

You can clamp a piece of rubber or, like pictured here, use a magnetic soft jaw for the vise. It will keep the vibrations and screeching down to near nothing.


Here's the 'clamp on a piece of rubber' method. Works really well too.

There are other ways to do this but these are two I use frequently. This is likely pretty common knowledge but I didn't know about it until someone told me!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n_lf2RHIPs&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta_...ation_id=bbfd0aa7-ba39-4fd7-b8c3-ccc958d56145
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp7...ation_id=878c97d2-d6ec-4a91-a503-c4bb822a7773
i don't know if any of these will help but i sure learned a lot even though i don't have a bender yet

 

Nice! I'm always open to some learning! It was immediately clear that bending tubing is incredibly easy with a good bender. Making accurate bends repeatably to drawings? Well, that takes a little more knowledge.