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Author Message Prev Topic | Next Topic  jakeslouw 35 MT Joined: 11 March 2005 South Africa Posts: 2325 Gender: Male Posted: 30 July 2010 at 3:53am | IP Logged My home-made lip-channel front bumper made it to phase 1B, with spot lights, but it has proven to be too heavy for the bumper mount plates that bolt onto the chassis. So I've decided to go back to standard bumper and bullbar. If anybody has these, or knows where I can source any used or new items, I'd be very grateful. This is what I need: Back to Top    Ricster 35 MT Joined: 13 March 2007 South Africa Posts: 853 Gender: Male Posted: 30 July 2010 at 7:02am | IP Logged Mounting plates too weak??.... bliksem, how heavy is that b/bar..... Can the brackets/plates not be reinforced? __________________ '99 Patrol GL 4.2 Diesel Turbo ( IRON MAIDEN ) '95 SANI 3.0 V6 4x4 - (SOLD) Spent all my money on cars, bikes & women. The rest I just wasted Back to Top    jakeslouw 35 MT Joined: 11 March 2005 South Africa Posts: 2325 Gender: Male Posted: 30 July 2010 at 9:16am | IP Logged The mounting plates bolt onto the chassis using 2 pretty puny bolts into captive nuts. On the driver side, the bumper weight has broken the mounting around one bolt hole, and elongated the other hole. The whole caboodle now sags on the right. I then welded the top hole that had broken to the chassis: that lasted 3 minutes. Maybe I should take my torsion bars down a notch? Back to Top    jakeslouw 35 MT Joined: 11 March 2005 South Africa Posts: 2325 Gender: Male Posted: 30 July 2010 at 9:20am | IP Logged But I hear what you say. I just don't know if it's worth sourcing 6mm flat plate and fabricating mounts..... I'll take the thing off tomorrow, and see if I have any appropriate angle iron or something. Dave, are you coming thru? Back to Top    BfreeSani 35 MT Joined: 27 February 2006 South Africa Posts: 3080 Gender: Male Posted: 30 July 2010 at 1:09pm | IP Logged I only saw your reply very late and have to work around my son coming over the afternoon. Sorry to hear about your brackets coming off. I see I have one of those captive nuts that are stripped on my bull bar mount as well, but it seems to be holding OK. Even with my touch parking I do every so often. Jakes, my wife starts work at 9, if I can squeeze some diesel money outa mommy I will see you. Edited by BfreeSani on 30 July 2010 at 1:10pm __________________ David-Hillbilly 97 Sani MK2 2.7TD 83 SJ410 http://www.youtube.com user/davidabcab http://picasaweb.google.com/abcab00 _ _/o.o.o\ [_], [____], l---L    O≡Ʌ≡O ()_) ()_)=-=)_) Back to Top    jakeslouw 35 MT Joined: 11 March 2005 South Africa Posts: 2325 Gender: Male Posted: 31 July 2010 at 2:13am | IP Logged David, you're welcome any time. By the way, your PM Inbox is FULL Back to Top    jakeslouw 35 MT Joined: 11 March 2005 South Africa Posts: 2325 Gender: Male Posted: 02 August 2010 at 2:06am | IP Logged Sorry, no pictures, but I was shocked when I took off the home-made bumper for repairs yesterday: - BOTH removable 4mm-thick bumper brackets had started to split on the vertical section right at the front: this I welded and also put in a section of 32mm angle-iron as a brace - RHS bracket had lost a whole corner of 4mm steel on the top mount hole (which is a slot actually, not a hole: silly idea, I would have put an adjustment slot on the BOTTOM hole, so that any movement wouldn't mean the whole bracket pulls away from the top bolt): I welded in a piece of 4mm steel, and then drilled a hole for a bolt. I cocked up a bit here: I didn't mark the position properly and my hole was a little off. That's OK, because the captive nut thread is shot anyway. So I just put in a 6mm bolt with a Nyloc nut, we'll see how it lasts. So a standard bumper is CRITICAL: PLEASE let me know if you have any pre-2000 Hardbody front bumpers lying around.  Back to Top

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