I am going to be doing some wheeling here in the next couple of weeks and i need a new bumper. I want to make one so i am wondering if anyone has any plans that work good.

 

search and therangerstation.com has a stick of bumpers tons of great pics and great ideas.

 

yeah i was thinking about a good front bumper i could make, but i went to the site and the pictures wouldnt come up oh well

 

just an idea i drew up a while back

 

 

If you ever sell that truck and need to put on a factory bumper we're swapping. I call dibs.

 

wow thats a sweet bumper. i like it

 

ooooo pretty

 

Do you have the plans for it.

 

Idk , like most my projects I never have plan or make any you just kinda wing'it. I say just get the plate,tube etc and start going off yer ideas or pictures you like. It will come to you as you build.

 

I completely agree. Its killin me up here at school with no welder or place to work

 

i really like that bumper too....i have been looking for one...wanna build another...lol

 

Honestly, I just got bored and wanted a bumper. I had no plans, just pictures of road armor and trailready bumpers as a guideline. I looked at how they were engineered, their similarities of stress points, so forth. It really is not hard at all, just take your time and get some plywood to make a template. Once you have the bumper off just take some rough measurements of width, depth, how far the frame mounts you want it, and height. From that point, just tweak and modifiy as you go until you have it where you want it.
Once that is done and you have your 1/8 or 3/16 plate ( i used both) transcribe the face measurements first, cut that out and bend it up. After that is just a matter of keeping it square and filling it in with plate. Use big peices if you can as it makes your finishing a hell of a lot easier.

 

any chace of getting some more pictures of that sweet thing, mounting spots and such, thats exactually what im looking at doing

 

there are photos on here somewhere of all the mounting and so forth. I am not sure if I still have them on my computer

 

That bumper's pretty tough, hope you don't mind if I use the design.

 

cool thanks man, ill go searching

 

we have been begging him for plans since he finished his bumper

 

I started a new bumper last night. I will try and get some pictures up tonight on here.

 

been a week, whats with the progress, hows it comming?

 

found a good website

http://www.ironbullbumpers.com/ford.htm

just click on the right arrow until you come to the ranger 1

 

i cant get that link to load

EDIT: got it just had to delete the ford stuff at the end
http://www.ironbullbumpers.com

 

I had already talked to them about a bumper for my girls ranger. They claim they are indestructible and if they get a dent or bent they replace the bumper for free. However they are about a grand. well for me it was cause i could walk right in and pick one up out of their shop with no shipping charges.

 

Any progress on the bumper?

 

thats a sick set up man