Front bumper in progress...

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brittan

brittan

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I've had the winch in my garage for a year and with the weather cooling down I've gotten off my ass and started putting this together. I'll keep posting as it comes together.

I've uploaded my limit of three files...guess you'll have to wait until my web server is up again...

The bash plate on the front is .25" thick and rests there at 45 degrees. The rest of the material is 3/16".

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inside frame rail.webp

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The main supports will be in flat...the rest will be tube...
 
So you finally hook up with a guy that gets it right on the first try rather than still wrong after 10 attempts and you're off and running! Looking good!
 
Looks good man. Rhino was over at my place weekend before last and I was admiring your custom work on the yota you sold him.
 
JO MAOMA said:
aren't the airbags controlled by an accelerometer inside the cab?
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Yes, IIRC the sensor is in the console. It senses deceleration, when it gets to a predetermined point the bags are deployed. The the type of bumper has very little if anything to do with it.
 
My bad. On most vehicles I have dealt with their is an airbag sensor on the front of the vehicle, because multiple sensors usually have to go off in order for the air bag to be depolyed.
 
Screw the airbag! When I was driving heavy trucks, we were all rather uncomfortable with having a bomb in front of us! We didn't want to have explosives in our faces. I was hit rather hard in one of those trucks and I thank God that that the bomb failed to go off! If it had, I would have been hurt badly by a device that was designed to save me. Instead, I escaped with minor injuries. I was lucky that the airbag did not deploy. By its design, it should have.
In a real defence of the airbag, it saved a life while I was driving the same truck. I was also hit in the rear in the same truck by an idiot who had little grasp of the laws of physics. He was trying to drive through my truck in an Astrovan. He did this at more than 70 MPH! He turned his van into an accordion from front to back on my back bumper. He hit the back of my 15,000 lb. truck at 70 MPH! He was deprived of the Darwin Award by his airbag. The throttle assembly that was destroyed in the wreck showed that he was at full throttle on impact. He was trying to pass! Stupid is as stupid does. His van was so badly crushed that they had to cut it in half and remove him from it from the middle. It took 30 minutes to extract him and get him into the ambulance. I was amazed that he lived. If he ever walked again, I will never know. But I would be surprised. The airbag saved his life! He may not be an invalid or a vegetable. I can only hope.
 
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CKaya84 said:
No more progress on the bumper?
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I will post up again when I have more done...I haven't done much the last two nights and may not until next week. My wife's grandmother passed this week so I have a lot going on with that...

Believe me...I want to get it done...
 
I welded up the main pieces last night...Tomorrow I will do some bending if anyone wants to come by...
 
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