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07-22-2009, 07:49 AM
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| I wanna be Dave  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Martinsburg WV
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|  ditchin the dumb chrome bar...
Every time I looked at the stock brush bar on the Pro-Line bumper, it made me cringe. So cheesy looking:  I actually had an hour to kill at work the other day and decided to rectify the situation. I bent a piece of 3/16" brass rod to shape using my primitive two-bolts-in-a-vise method, with a little plier-work thrown in to line the ends up parrallel. Then 2 pieces of 1/8" brass rod are bent to form the sides and soldered on. The other ends simply drop into holes drilled in the bumper. And a little loop added for the winch hook (lots of fun jigging this little piece in place to solder!) Buff it out with a Scotchbrite belt, de-grease it, and hit it w/ a coat of flat black. Then it friction-fits in place like the stock bar:   That looks a little more business-like  This is the first time I've gone past just thinking about it and actually gotten off my lazy a$$ and bent up some rod and soldered it together into something useful and attractive. No special materials were used here, this is the same 50/50 solder and paste flux you'd use to sweat copper plumbing, available at any Lowes/Home Depot. My heat source was a $20 Benz-o-Matic butane micro-torch, also available about anywhere you can buy tools and hardware. Now I'm feeling a little more motivated... Last edited by Big Mike; 07-22-2009 at 08:03 AM. |
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07-22-2009, 08:14 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Unnecessary Surgery Land
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Looks 100 times better! Now it has that personal touch to it.
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07-22-2009, 12:15 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: United States of the Offended
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Moocho gooder!!! Looks like it came that way!! |
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07-22-2009, 02:58 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: sittin in the sky
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looks awsome ive always liked the mini stinger type bumpers
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07-22-2009, 03:04 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Sebastopol CA
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Looks great, much better than stock Where did you get those D-ring shackles? |
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07-22-2009, 03:12 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Martinsburg WV
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Those shackles are from Ebay. I'm 99% sure this link is to the same vendor. They came from Hong Kong but the shipping was very reasonable. They're stainless steel and high quality: http://cgi.ebay.com/Metal-Shackles-f...3A1%7C294%3A50 If you look close you'll see where I had to add black plastic spacers in between the shackles so they'd fit the Pro-Line mounts w/o wobbling around. Other than that they're good to go... Last edited by Big Mike; 07-22-2009 at 03:15 PM. | |
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07-22-2009, 03:16 PM
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07-22-2009, 11:35 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: ogden
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great looking truck
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07-23-2009, 02:51 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2009 Location: Reno
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soooooooooooooooooo much better  |
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07-23-2009, 08:51 PM
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| RCC Addict Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: barstow
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excellant job very nice work
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07-23-2009, 11:49 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2009 Location: lake elsinore
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ooooo thanks for a new idea |
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07-24-2009, 06:47 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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Very nice big improvement.
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07-24-2009, 09:18 AM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Brown City, Mi.
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That looks 100 times better. :-P
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07-04-2010, 02:49 PM
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| Rock Stacker Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: ogden
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so how do you do two bolts in a vise method
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