African expedition FJ/HJ60 Build for Jesus

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Eric Shook fits up the bumper brackets with a little grinding action
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Same
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Drawer closed
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Drawer Open. The thing spins perfectly and isn't even greased yet
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Roof rack top rail tacked on
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The second drawer pieces cut out and ready for welding
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The front bumper with tubing bent around the main brackets and tacked in. As mentioned, this will be completely filled in with 3/16" plate so the winch is completely protected.
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Roof rack substructure complete and test fit on truck.
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front bumper pic

Just got this TXTed to me from the guys at the shop. (they are on fall break)

This is how they tied all the tubes together on the front bumper.

By the way, we are bending everything with a Pro Tools 105
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The ProTools 105 is a pretty good bender. I think the JD2 is a little more user friendly though, especially for noobs like me. :D

Great work, keep it up!
 
Front bumper construction

Guys got the front bumper pretty well done and ready for powder coat yesterday. Here are some pictures:

Welding up substructure
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Tacking in front bumper protection
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Tacking in front bumper protection
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More of the same
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Welding up 3/16" plate
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More of the same
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Complete and ready for powder coat
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WOW! I would not wan't to pull out in front of that! You guys are doing an amazing job and I love your cause!
 
SWEET bumper, I'm assuming the part over the winch is to protect it from theft?
:popcorn:
-Carl
 
IrollwithTojo said:
SWEET bumper, I'm assuming the part over the winch is to protect it from theft?
:popcorn:
-Carl
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Correct. It will have a remote cable in the inside of the cab. They are also designing a "T-Handle" to actuate the IN/OUT lever that will stick through a hole in the bumper into the winch
 
Work on the rear bumper

Like I mentioned, we are building what I would consider a Red Neck bumper, but after we weighed all the options it made the most sense. Its built from 6-5/8" Oil-field pipe with pipe caps. It will have a total of 3.2 gal of air capacity. They began work on it yesterday; more pictures to come of the progress.

The guys begin bending the swing-out spare tire carrier
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Michal (Shes a girl) grinds after cutting out the relief for the frame rails.
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Again
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Got all the lights mounted into the roof rack; it will have a lockable "door" that sides over them to protect them from theft. All six lights are PIAA's with the outside two being fog and the four inside 15 degree driving lights.
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shotgun12321 said:
Jeez that's a good $2100 on the rack lights alone.

That bumper looks like you stole it from the front of a train, how much does it weigh? (with and without winch)
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Lights on the rack were only $480. - Autoanything.com has the cheapest retail prices on crap like this.

Bumper weighs under 100 pounds. 180ish with winch.
 
looking good! that bumper should inspire some people to yield.
 
zuluzeugma said:
Lights on the rack were only $480. - Autoanything.com has the cheapest retail prices on crap like this.

Bumper weighs under 100 pounds. 180ish with winch.
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Actually we just weighed the front bumper....160lbs :eek::eek:
 
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