Show off your DIY armor!

Looks good! Did you make the rack around your softtopper as well?

 

Not by myself. I have a friend who does custom fencing so he's got a nice pipe bender haha

 

nice work. especially the details on the corners.

 

Thank you! I'll post a final picture when it's completed.

 

Got the bumper painted and mounted this evening

 

Love it! Any plans for liscense plate lights?

 

I finally got motivated enough to trim up my front bumper. I think i like it-if not, i will glue the piece back on.

Before
After

 

Yes, I think I'd like just the LED bolt style maybe. Or maybe a small like 2 or 3 led strip type of light on the slanted pieces.
Your bumper looks pretty slick trimmed up some!

 

Ordered these lol. Just have to make it home before dark for a couple days

 

I really like the new shape of the front. Are you planning on doing fog light holes eventually as well?

 

Yeah, if i get motivated enough i would like to. I should have done it when i was building it but i got lazy

 

So I look at all this stuff you guys are putting together, then I look at the cost of the sliders that I want plus the cost of the local shop to weld them on... And then I look at the cost of a cheapo MIG welder and tube steel... I'm about to bite off a lot more than I can chew, aren't I?

 

This is why I bought my welder.

 

Yes you are! If your gonna buy a welder i super strongly recommend you get one with shielding gas. It works like 10k times better. Once you have it and a grinder, the possibilities are endless! I did 4xinnovations sliders and welded them on myself. You get to customize your fitment too!

 

Do you have welding skills? Like real actual skills? You don't need to be a professional, but making things stick together and making stuff with stand an impact aren't exactly the same. Not trying to be a dick, I just know a few guys that thought they could do it and ended up buying sliders anyway.

 

Nope. Aside from watching my dad do a bunch of welding in the garage growing up, the closest experience I have to welding is a bunch of soldering. As far as designing it, I have a lot of experience in CAD and mechanical design so I like to think I could at least get a plan together for half-decent armor. That said, realistically, I think I'd just start out buying pre-made sliders and welding them on myself.

 

Great job

 

Thanks! I ended up cutting the corners up some today so it's not so square

 

Gotta learn before welding sliders to your truck.

A good welder is going to run 600-1000$ Easy

 

@ethan_wyrick, you got more pics? Up close and side profile?