Rear Bumper Pics!!

[floridafj80 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close floridafj80]

Hello, I am looking for ideas for my rear bumper design and would like to see if maybe you guys can help out and post pictures of your rear bumper designs... If you have detailed please post... Thanks in advance!!!

[FlyingBushPig Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close FlyingBushPig]

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Not for a 90 but I'm slowly working on a design for my 120 here
I'll be interested to see what you come up with too.

[Schaffer Addicted PP Member Find all posts View Profile Close Schaffer]

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I just did a quick search on rear bar in the 90s section and found this:
Rear Bar - Custom Rear Bar with dual wheel carrier. Two seperate PPers have built these independantly. Looks the goods.

[Landcrusher Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Landcrusher]

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Mine looks like this. Had to adapt because I have a 40mm body lit as well as the suspension lift, so there is a bigger gap to cover. The lights are NAS Landrover. The eyes will take towing strains as they screw directly into the chassis rail extensions.



Actually, went slightly mad and made a front one too.

[clifton Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close clifton]

Re: Rear Bumper Pics!!

Mine looks like this. Had to adapt because I have a 40mm body lit as well as the suspension lift, so there is a bigger gap to cover. The lights are NAS Landrover. The eyes will take towing strains as they screw directly into the chassis rail extensions.



Actually, went slightly mad and made a front one too.

Hi Landcrusher,
Man, that is a well set up rig there great stuff

[Landcrusher Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Landcrusher]

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Thanks Fella. It's a pretty long list of mods. The latest is a front diff lock. Yet to try it out. The receiver on the rear takes a demountable winch, which will also fit on the front just in case I ever need TWO winches.

Anyway, on the actual bumper build -
The small connection is for my air line from the tank underneath. I think if you are going to make a rear bumper, it's actually easier to chuck the standard lights (if you have them in the bumper) and just go with something from a parts catalogue. I didn't paint it - I had it powder coated. Very durable. OK we got the colour wrong. Tricky getting the joint to the old plastic. if you have access to a roller/ bender, then things can be a lot easier. I used a lot of cardboard making templates that's for sure. Plenty of pics if you need any other ideas on the mounts inside etc.

C

[FlyingBushPig Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close FlyingBushPig]

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Very very nice - I'm impressed. That rear bar looks tough and the front makes it stand out!

[floridafj80 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close floridafj80]

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Landcrusher

Sweet Looking bumper and rig.. If you dont mind can you post up pics of the mount points of the rear bumper. I would like to see how you were able to mount it.

Thanks in advance

[Landcrusher Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Landcrusher]

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Sure. Here's what I hung it off.

This is the extension

Here's where it fits into the chassis

And this is it welded onto the rear section. The loose reinforcing plate was later fully welded onto the chassis box once lined up

This is a close up just before I tacked it. The nuts were welded captive onto the new section

I used 20mm eye bolts screwed into captive nuts inside the mounting point

That help for now?

C

[floridafj80 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close floridafj80]

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Yes Sir.. Awesome Pics.. Keep em coming.. I like how you mounted it to the crossmember. Very good. How did you mount the hitch receiver.??

[Landcrusher Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Landcrusher]

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Don't know that there is much more to show you in a technical sense. The rear receiver is home-made but I know that ARB make one. I took a standard shop bought tow bar, cut off the dangly bits and simply welded 10mm plate steel around a piece of 50mm box section to make the receiver.

This is the genuine ARB one that I copied


And here is the winch mounted on its sled in place in the receiver. Very handy.



Then you just make any attachments that you fancy. Like this shackle.

This is how the front winch is mounted.

The plate is 8mm. In all there are 11 bolts holding it on. It shouldn't come off!

I then built the bumper around the winch


I'm pretty new at this and don't have all of the workshop tools and space that I need. So stuff looks a bit home made, but it's functional and strong. Once I get a plasma cutter I will be able to cut more complex shapes.

C

[floridafj80 Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close floridafj80]

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Hey thanks so much for sharing the pics. you really made an awesome front and rear bumper. I am going to use your ideas if thats ok, and create one similar to yours, obviously I will post up pics of the progress.. Thanks..