Nice bumper

ERover82 · Oct 30, 2014

Just sharing a bumper some guy made. IMHO he nailed it on the design. It follows the lines of the truck and appears to have good approach angles. Hopefully it's built as well as it looks.

http://gitout.com/showthread.php?1250-Joe-s-Landy-build&p=29137&viewfull=1#post29137

p m · Oct 30, 2014

Find yourself a picture of Rob Davison's D1 front bumper. Too bad he never cared to replicate it.

DiscoPhoto · Oct 30, 2014

Well done. Only thing I'd change is making it flat on the front with a hawse fairlead and angle the sides more to follow the fender curve. Nice work though

K-rover · Oct 30, 2014

Looks good except for the winch controller box.

SGaynor · Oct 30, 2014

Similar, but not quite, to the HLC Fab bumper.

See the pics in this thread:

http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showthread.php?t=88192&highlight=accident

MM3846 · Oct 30, 2014

DiscoPhoto said:
Well done. Only thing I'd change is making it flat on the front with a hawse fairlead and angle the sides more to follow the fender curve. Nice work though

agreed. I'm probably gonna build one soon and this is definitely what I'll be copying.

crown14 · Oct 30, 2014

It doesn't follow the lines of the truck at all

fishEH · Oct 30, 2014

One big glaring problem is the lack of recovery points on it. I agree on the lines not really following it. There's a few spots that could be cleaned up, like where the side meets the front of the wheel arch. Could have cut it at an angle to follow the wheel arch line.

K-rover · Oct 30, 2014

fishEH said:
One big glaring problem is the lack of recovery points on it. I agree on the lines not really following it. There's a few spots that could be cleaned up, like where the side meets the front of the wheel arch. Could have cut it at an angle to follow the wheel arch line.

It has ARB style recovery points.. look underneath.

fishEH · Oct 30, 2014

K-rover said:
It has ARB style recovery points.. look underneath.

Word, didn't see those.

ERover82 · Oct 30, 2014

Bars follow the lines. Yeah fender area could be better, unless he planned on cutting it.

MM3846 · Oct 31, 2014

whats the preferred mounting for these things? i've seen plenty of pics of bumpers but none of how they mount

fishEH · Oct 31, 2014

MM3846 said:
whats the preferred mounting for these things? i've seen plenty of pics of bumpers but none of how they mount

The D1 utilizes 3 bolts on each frame rail. Basically the bumper slides over the end of the frame rail and the bolts slide through horizontally.

D Chapman · Oct 31, 2014

On a D1 most folks drill a hole vertically for an additional bolt so the bumper will resist twisting.

fishEH · Oct 31, 2014

D Chapman said:
On a D1 most folks drill a hole vertically for an additional bolt so the bumper will resist twisting.

I think you are thinking of ARB, which tend to suck anyway. Neither my HiCountry nor my RockStar Fab bumpers have had a vertical bolt and neither has shown even the slightest hint of twist under heavy winching at all angles and impacts.

MM3846 · Oct 31, 2014

fishEH said:
The D1 utilizes 3 bolts on each frame rail. Basically the bumper slides over the end of the frame rail and the bolts slide through horizontally.

that's what i figured, looks pretty simple.

D Chapman said:
On a D1 most folks drill a hole vertically for an additional bolt so the bumper will resist twisting.

that isn't hard to do.. tapping the frame should be pretty easy.

mgreenspan · Oct 31, 2014

The best looking bumper I've seen was from a fabricator/welder when I was living in the UK. He had a company that built hospital carts/storage solutions for the NHS. Very skilled guy. Bumper looked great. He took the stock bumper and re-fab'd the middle section for a winch and reinforced the whole thing. Looked stock, plastic end caps and everything with a built in winch mount. He took time to design.

The tradeoff is that once you start designing it for the purpose of offroad and increasing strength to ridiculous levels you start to lose the good looking lines because you have to.

JustAddMtns · Oct 31, 2014

Here are some HLC bumpers for reference. Mine is the Bonnatti one. I still think the bar is a little high. I designed that model and Denny did a good job interpreting what I wanted. I think form and function is all there, just depends on what ya like.

D Chapman · Oct 31, 2014

fishEH said:
I think you are thinking of ARB, which tend to suck anyway. Neither my HiCountry nor my RockStar Fab bumpers have had a vertical bolt and neither has shown even the slightest hint of twist under heavy winching at all angles and impacts.

It's a must on ARB's. But RTE and others use a vertical bolt as well.

ERover82 · Oct 31, 2014

JustAddMtns said:

Looks great.

JustAddMtns said:

I hate it when the middle bars lean inward like that. They should be vertical, as in the line between the headlights and grill.

Nice bumper

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