Whats behind an 06 front bumper
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Whats behind an 06 front bumper
im trying to mount some light to the front of my truck without making a whole tube bumper. just making some tabs off the frame near the tow hooks will work, but the lights are kinda low. i want to mount them about a 1/2 inch or an inch above the top of my bumper. well it seems as if there is some kinda metal support behind the cheap plastic bumper but i caint get my hand in there nor can i see it. so the quetion is... is it hollow and does it unbolt from the truck. cause what id like to do is just drill a hole through the plastic and through the metal to put a light bar on the top of my bumper. so does anyone know whats behind there? would this be possible??
thanks JOSH
thanks JOSH
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Here we go:
Twas a pita! I made light tabs for it, turns out the day we went to install is the day i found out 06+ bumpers are actually bumper covers. lol.
Used my old light tabs, got a longer top horizontal towhook bolt. threaded a nut for a spacer, then the tab, then the final nut. If the tabs were properly made for his application, it would have worked out a whole lot better. The mount we used is roughly the same size as the ones that Wayne @ Underdog sells. For proper fitment, the long part should be about .500" longer. Heck, .750" longer.
(sorry to steal your thunder there, cory.) lol.
Used my old light tabs, got a longer top horizontal towhook bolt. threaded a nut for a spacer, then the tab, then the final nut. If the tabs were properly made for his application, it would have worked out a whole lot better. The mount we used is roughly the same size as the ones that Wayne @ Underdog sells. For proper fitment, the long part should be about .500" longer. Heck, .750" longer.
(sorry to steal your thunder there, cory.) lol.
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ya thats alittle too low for what im looking for. thats what i was going to do at first, then i was going to make a tube coume out from that bolt and go above the bumper. but i think it may look goofy.. what i would like them to be is just as tall as the ford emblem mounted on top of the bumper or some kinda bracket. for looks and because i seem to go through bushes a lot and they will just get bead down there.
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ya thats alittle too low for what im looking for. thats what i was going to do at first, then i was going to make a tube coume out from that bolt and go above the bumper. but i think it may look goofy.. what i would like them to be is just as tall as the ford emblem mounted on top of the bumper or some kinda bracket. for looks and because i seem to go through bushes a lot and they will just get bead down there.
The bar protects the lights pretty good too.
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yes i know that, BUT how do you get a nut onto the bolt.. does the bumper and bumper covering come off together so id be able to drill and put a nut and bolt through? or do i need to drill the holles weld a nut onto the metal bumper and put it all backtogether then bolt it up?? know what i mean
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Ok if I'm misunderstanding you I apoligize. Why can't you just drill straight throught the top of the bumper then come up from underneath the bumper and attach the nut to a bolt coming through the top? You can always take the bumper off but I think thats unnecessary. And yes the bumper cover should come off with the bumper.
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yeah I didn't know you could send it to photobucket from verizon?? I forgot I can send it to your email from my phone. I'm just at work and on the laptop so all of my pics are on my home computer and I just snapped a quick pic of the bar I made that mounted to the tabs. He can post it on here once he gets the pic. If I was at home, I would of posted it no prob.
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The bottom lights mount regularly on the L-brackets like how shane made em and I made this to mount to the side of each L-bracket and grinded about half of the new bracket off in the spot where the bumper would of hit it if it wasn't ground down. I would just make the L-brackets a little longer so you could just weld the new bracket part onto the side but extended out a little farther so you didn't have to grind part of the new bracket off to clear the bumper. Does that make any sense??