Factory frame ends sticking out of plate bumper

What's everybody doing with these chingaderas? Just chopping these suckers off?

 

Look closer. They unbolt.

 

They are held on by one bolt


Un bolt and remove lol

 

omg I'm blind

 

Fill with a thick aluminum bar.....

 

No way I would trust that as a recovery point

 

why tho

 

Same set of attachment bolts as the ones that bolt on the outside - and the 1.0 inch thick 6061 T-6 aluminum bar is the same strength as 1.0 thick mild steel. So "pull out is about 60,000 lbs.

 

Thats all fine and dandy, but the piece the that aluminum is attached to is hardly close to that stout.

 

I suppose that is the whole point right? The whole front of the frame is box welded out of skinny little pieces of sheetmetal ...... The next set, I'm going to make out of 1-1/4 thick T-6 (just fits in a 3/4 shackle) and make it an even closer fit back in there, filling the entire boxed opening. That way the sheet metal can't collapse and all of the fasteners would have to shear off to get it out. Alignment of the direction of pull is "whatever" due to the fact you just never know how things will line up in the real world.