help need bumper ideas

[Kodiak]

Does anyone have any pics of custom bummpers on there 1st gen Ex or the Kennesaw bumper for the Ex. I am trying to find a design for a front and rear bumper. But can't seem to find any that I like. Thanks.

 

[Bionc Marsh.]

Kodiak,

I have some pics of both my front and rear bumpers that I made. Is that what you are looking for, or are you looking for "off the shelf" units?

 

[CoryL]

Here is a rear bumper I made for a Ranger...

Pic of a rear swing out spare tire carrier bumper for an Explorer.

And a front winch bumper for the same Ranger.

To build the front bumper on an Explorer I would need the vehicle here, since the frames differ from Ranger to Explorer.

Anything else can been seen on my website in my sig.

 

[coolchris]

here are pics of my custom bumpers even though its on a second generation explorer itll still give you some ideas...

 

[Doug]

I got some squarish steel tubing (i think they where home depot shelves) and Im gonna be welding up bumpers out of that. I hope Ill be able to get the breaker for the welder setup today. Im basically gonna have the bumper look something like this..
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gotta love ascii art.

 

[Josh S.]

chris, where did you get your bumpers made?(because we are in the same area) and what goin on w/ pismo beach?

 

[coolchris]

i had perry make my bumpers ( www.perrysfabnfiber.com ) down in lemongrove, sandiego. i dont know about pismo... ill be going to visit my brother within the next month probably so when i do ill be sure to let everyone know if we want to make a trip out of it.

 

[Josh S.]

damn that was a fast reply. Yah I've talked to him about fabbed bumpers before and it seemed like a big-ass rape. He wanted like 600 for front and 400 for rear. I thought that was too much for nothin extremely spectacular. They are a hell of a lot better than stock though. Your front one looks like the yellow one one his business cards. How much did you pay?

 

[coolchris]

400 front, 200 rear. if i were to get a hitch mounted in the rear bumper i think it was more like 400 for the rear. and the front was 500 for the full bumper he normally makes but i didnt want all the bars that cover the headlights so he took off 100.

 

[Josh S.]

Is the skidplate strong? Have you tagged anything with it? That sounds like an ok deal. Did you have to have it down in mexico and stuff for a few days or what?

 

[coolchris]

i havent tagged anything with the skid plate yet, i think im going to get a new piece of metal that goes all the way to the frame. when i took it to perrys i was about to go on vacation so i just left it to him for a week and he took it down to mexico and did the work there then brought it back up for me to get it.

 

[Josh S.]

cool