..well kinda.

those 45s shouldn't be there (too much angle), and it wasn't going to be tucked up to far against the winch. but a few n00b cuts later it didn't come out lookin too bad. I just don't have enough 2x3 left to even complete one side soooo its gonna have to wait till after krocks. It will serve its purpose to protect the radiator and winch as is.

Its BEEFY.. not going anywhere, I'm gonna weld on a support on the back of both sides back to the top of the frame rails for even more beef.

anywho.. onto the pics.

OH! And you can check out my ridiculously beefy new front receiver too, I'm still going to beef that up more as well.

ANDDD i chopped up my old skid plate, and made a new one There's been a few times I've come way too close to taking out the condenser and/or radiator.









yep, thats a leaf spring welded to the top of the skid to keep the skid from being pushed up and into the radiator.. yes its probably the most ghetto thing on the truck but damnit it will hold.

 

what.. everyone demands pics.. but no one comes to see?

losers



--what color should i paint it?

 

black! looks really good man

didnt know you had a body lift on there too

but yeah badass, im gettin real close to gettin a winch, so i gotta figure out how i wanna fab it into my front bumper

 

black..

I think this is the first time I've seen your truck close up.. and it's very interesting.. lol

 

haha i think it looks pretty cool and def beefy really like the grenade looks bada$$

 

a body lift is most of the lift i have!

the only lift i have in the back is the RCD shackle.. stock explorer leaves, no AAL, no blocks.

but the list keeps racking up of **** that has to come off/ be heavily modified if the body lift were to come off.
-shifter modified AGAIN
-sliders redone
-gotta move the radiator or reverse the front shackles so they dont hit the radiator
-inner fenders cut for shock hoops
-front end trimmed more for the winch
-trimming for the steering box
-now i gotta make it work with my bumper
-soon to have to change what ever i do for a rear bumper.
-gotta rework my cooler holder


yea it'll be a PITA. I think I'm gonna have Kevan machine me some billet aluminum lift blocks and get some stupid strong bolts for the body mounts, then do solid mounts at the same time.

 

sweet

 

better be a good interesting or I'll drive my happy *** up there and test exactly how strong that thing is

 

right on. i hear ya on that though.

so far, im at sliders front bumper, and a few other random things that are "body lift specific" you could call it. theres really no goin back lol. but im nowhere near as far as you are yet haha

 

I think "functional" describes this bumper and skid plate... as far as looks go, well... I am undecided lol. Its not really how I would have designed it.

Who cares though: Function > Form

 

... also, I would like to see a full pic of the truck and bumper! its hard to tell how it looks with all these close ups

 

well, that's not a bumper, looks more like an impaler..

lol

and why is your *** so happy?

 

i think it'll probably look a lot better once you extend it out on both sides

 

well i would have done the skid differently too.. but I'm working on a budget trying to get this thing as bomb proof as i can before katemcy.

it should look a bunch better when I'm done.



I need a camera, i have to get my step dad out there with his fancy camera to take pics all the time. and it was up against the garage in the driveway pretty much. I'll get a better one if i get a chance tomorrow.

yea, i was holding the left over tube up to it, looking at how it should come out and it should be pretty mean looking!

 

sweet dude can't wait to see the finished product!

 

the concept pic looks great... and yeah, it DEFINITELY looks freakin bombproof!

 

i prefer the term zombie proof. lol thats what i call mine

im ready for the zombie apocalypse :)

 

meh, need more across the radiator if I'm gonna go plowing into zombies

 

Hell yeah! lol. Im all ready for the zombies too, including a couple AR-15's and about 3k rounds of 5.56 that Ive been collecting since the last election... I swear, im not paranoid lol

 

It'll look good when it's done, right now it looks like a hardcore version of that WAAG push bumper thing that everyone loves lol.

 

my push bar will kick your push bars ***!!!!

 

especially one of those WAAG things...

 

seeing as you cant shoot an ar-15 accuratley and drive at the same time.. i think you need a co pilot
id rather be sitting in a lifted ranger come the zombie apoc than my lowered one lol

 

are you planning on adding to it and carrying it around the sides or what?

 

Nice start. Are gonna be able to remove the winch if you need to?