70 Series rear bumper photos wanted!

[TEPUI]

Another good one: bt4x4.com

One of the owners of bt4x4 is a mud member: pocholin

 

[JAC83]

Mine:

It's simple and improves the departure angle by quite a bit, I don't need a tire carrier and I could mount a jerry can carrier to door hinges if I ever need one.

 

[TEPUI]

[HIJACK] I had not seen the "Bolivarian Republic" plates before! [/HIJACK]

 

[LDowney]

CanuckMariner,

This is my rear bumper that I fab'd for my truck. From your description this is the opposite of where you want to go, but it is an example of a bumper for a 70 series.

FYI This actually reflects 'stage 2' of the fab. First I built the basic front & rear bumpers and the sliders independant of one another. The second which I just completed used tubing to provide limited brush protection to the fenders and quarter panels. It can all be unbolted and removed from the truck for maintenance or modification. The fuel door was a big driver for the configuration for the rear tube layout along the quarter panels. If it had not been for the door, I probably would have only taken the tubing to the top of the wheel well. The next stage will add a swing out tire carrier to the rear bumper and maybe a winch to the front bumper (someday).

 

[JAC83]

[HIJACK] I had not seen the "Bolivarian Republic" plates before! [/HIJACK]

Don't get me started on those....I hate them, everyone does, they are hard to read and even harder to remember.

 

[CanuckMariner]

Thank you all for your comments and contributions, even the ones that were not about 70 series rear bumpers. I have built mine and am very happy with it.

Admin, please close this thread.

 

[John Galt]

This is a great thread on bumpers, maybe you could just remove the "wanted" from the subject line

 

[bull]

Thank you all for your comments and contributions, even the ones that were not about 70 series rear bumpers. I have built mine and am very happy with it.

Admin, please close this thread.

Let's see it then?

 

[Glenn-BJ74]

Hi Glen, I would like to see a photo of the new flares once you get them fitted, thats if you have time. I was having a look at your bumper too, nice job and some good ideas too. Two things for you to consider but I'm not telling you what to do at all, #1 is I welded in tubes with sealed ends as high lift jacking points because earlier bumpers I made had jack points but none worked properly if the jack was not vertical, if I have to with these ones I can jack the 70 sideways to push it out of a bank or still lift it at any angle, I machined them up on the lathe, hole sawed the bar and welded them in, easy peasy. #2 The other is I made a balls up galvanising my bars, for several reasons, next time I would have them sand blasted and zinc rich primed before painting, just about all the machines we build in our engineering shop are done this way and it is surprising how well this defeats rust even after the paint is chipped down to the steel, trust me it's good.

Yes -- the ability to jack-sideways - good idea. What size pipe did you put in. I thought 2"X3" rect. tubing would needed.
Thanks

Keep this thread going - I think the ideas are getting better as we go here

 

[fj71owner]

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hope this is what you are lookin for, good luck. i have tons of info on 70s