Rear High Clearance Bumper Install Cost?

Yup. I've been to a few semi-mod-days that went just like that.

 

A grand to install a hc bumper? How dare them. Its intimidating to cut your rig but measure a couple times and go after it. Remove your tow assembly, disconnect some electrical harnasses and a few bolts that hold your factory bumper and you're in business. The rear pelfrey if is gonna need to be dropped in at a slight angle so another set of hands will be needed. 2 bodies will do, 3 bodies is best. And loctite that glorious new hc. Good luck!

 

I'd be charging about 2-3 hrs at shop rate for an install on one of our HC rear bumpers, so about $175-250.
$1000 to install is insane

 

Yeah.. but you're not an experienced fabricator.






























Fuck.




You win this time.

 

Exactly. I think its the fact of taking a grinder to the body of my truck more than anything. I did some measuring and even with the dent there it doesn't look like making the lines and cutting will be too bad and like I saw mentioned above I think knocking out the dent some from behind will help some more. Think Im pretty much sold on the bumper route. Going to do some looking around on bumpers and go from there.

Thats a great write up on measuring for the cut thanks! Haha nah no reason to exaggerate it doesn't benefit me any. Been welding on and off most of my life. Mainly stuff like gates, entrances, trailers, smoker pits etc. Nothing crazy but I'm not completely foreign to the tools I need to use. This will be my introduction to any type of modifications on vehicles though so as mentioned above getting that courage to cut into my otherwise perfectly good truck is a bit nerve racking but what the heck I'll make some practice cuts and go for it. Worse case I'm replacing body panels:

http://www.autopartstricities.com/p...ml?partner=googlebase_adwords&kwd=&origin=pla

Thanks everyone for your input I really appreciate it!

 

Look around, there are plenty of people here that have been in the same situation as you. Once you get past that first cut, you'll be fine. Besides, it's not really yours until you drill into it or cut it, right.
The link I posted is just one of many I found. Make sure to reference a bunch before you cut and finalize which vendor you will be buying from. Some vendors suggest different measurements.
Good luck