Rear High Clearance Bumper Build

How well does that swing out shock work? Does it hold the carrier out in off camber situations? I'm thinking of adding a shock or a pin setup to mine. Any videos of that functioning

 

This gas spring is there really just to hold it open. It does its job well. I haven't tested it really off camber yet, I'm at family's house for Christmas, it was everything i could do just to get it driveable in time. The shock is 60lbs and has worked fine on small inclines. Ill try it out on something more substantial and take a video. I figured that if 60lbs isnt enough, I can always upgrade to a higher springrate.

 

Well after driving 3000km over Christmas, twice through the rockies in winter, I discovered I really need mud flaps lol. The lower part of the bumper looks like a dart board from chips caused by road sanding, salt and other garbage on the road. Easy to touch up to keep from rusting, but I dont want to be screwing with it all the time.

Enter gigantic semi-truck rubber mudflap.



All cut up

 

Those flaps look clean man. Nice work

 

At highway speeds are those going to bend into the exhaust and get burned?

Great build! I enjoyed tracking your progress.

 

Very nice work.

 

same reason for my mud flaps, chipping my bumper to hell lol.

 

Hmmmmmm...... Maybe? Lol

I never thought about it, but I was thinking about cutting the exhaust back anyway I dont think it will, but now that you mention it, I will be keeping an eye on it

 

With my bumper I made my flaps about 5" long. So short I'll have a tough time backing over them.

 

Well Christmas is done an I have settled back into a work routine Unfortunately lol. I rushed to get the bumper ready for our road trip, leaving out some key parts in the process. I finally got started on the gas can carrier.

I have 2x Scepter 20L MFCs to build a home for. Day started out with a trip to get some 14ga sheet.



Cut and ready to bend. I dont have a brake, so Ill cheat by scoring the metal most of the way through, bending to shape, then fill the groove with weld and grind flush




Ahhhhhh tight fit


Now I have this idea for a built in ratchet strap system to hold the cans down via a top plate.

My conditions for the top plate were:
Must prevent theft
Must prevent siphoning gas
Must secure cans from movement in any direction
Must look cool :B









More to come tomorrow

 

Is it tomorrow yet? Anxiously waiting for more. Looking nice.

 

Nice!

 

Subd for gas can mount

 

Looks sick!

 

I don't think the end of the pipe gets all that hot. It might get pretty warm under a heavy load / throttle .. but in normal driving conditions it shouldn't be an issue. I don't think it will harm your matt even if it stays against it the whole time. I think the worst it may do is, over time, make that spot a little harder than the rest of the rubber due to the heat difference.

 

Looking really good......impressive work.

 

Yes, I agree. I have been keeping an eye and listening for any rubbing. There is no marks on the mud flap and I have never heard or felt it rubbing on the tires / exhaust. Im going to write this off as complete and functional

 

Got a few more things done today. Not as much as I had hoped, but I did prove the concept of my integrated ratchet system, though it needs a little tuning.






Swingarm mocked up, now I need to rethink my latch system. I would really like to secure both arms with one latch. I may have an idea :B




Ratchet strap welded on. This took some time as I could only weld very small beads at a time to avoid melting the nylon strap. I kept it wet and it seems fully intact though. (Sorry for the crappy cell pic )




Bottom support structure tacked up. Ratchet attached and working, but still needs a little tuning. I do plan on tapering the bottom joists towards the front, just to tidy it up.





Still have a lot of rough edges to clean up, and fabbing left, but got a quite a bit done this weekend. I am especially happy about the ratchet system. When it is pulled down tight it is completely invisible. It looks like the top plate is floating on top, but the cans are completely secure. Im sure im not the first person to think of this, but in my extensive searching I haven't been able to find a fuel holder similar.

Video to follow.

 

Awesome work as usual, man. Love that gas can system.

 

This is a great build OP. Lots of creativity! Definitely diggin the fuel can holder with that ratchet on top plate.