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| | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I need to install a rear buumper on mine other then stock.........this would be on my 52 halfton.. anyone installed any on their truck other then stock?
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,953 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,953 | If you want practicality and don't really care about looks I have seen a piece of steel pipe about 4" in diameter complete with plumbing end caps used. Really strong I would imagine. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 | I have used 4 inch heavy wall channel iron.Angle it inward(approx 30 degrees more or less)8-10 inches from each end,weld in some frame brackets and bolt it on.It looks beefy and gives you a good mounting point for a trailer hitch later on.
Wanted Good Woman:
Must be able to cook , clean , sew , tune engines and polish trucks. Must have old Stovebolt and garage. Please send picture of old Stovebolt and garage.
| | | | | Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: May 2001 Posts: 709 | For a beefy crash bumper how about a length of railroad track.
Bruce
Old Toy: Ol' Betsy stock 59 Apache SB Stepside (Gone but not Forgotten)
New Toy: 1962 Impala SS Coupe
The Driver: 1990 Toyota truck
| | | | | Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 86 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Nov 2003 Posts: 86 | Dad made the bumper on my '59. Its in the gallery and at www.wfw.us under company truck. It's diamond plate top and flat stock edges formed into the rear fenders. Super beefy!
I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 3 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 3 | Joker, I narrowed a stock bumper roughly 11 inches to make it the same width as the bed. I always thought the rear bumpers on the AD trucks looked too wide and mounted too low for the truck. Just an opinion. I would post a photo with this reply but, it's to late at night to figure out a ubb or a url and an http.
Life is too short to drive a new truck.
| | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 . | | . Joined: May 2005 Posts: 8,878 | I like a good strong trailer hitch bolted to the frame, not an ugly home made one, but a newish simple aftermarket one.
I usually have a pintel hitch in it, but anything that sticks out some and is big will work. | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | thanks for the response,,,,,,,,a friend of mine was wanting to make one out of wood and then inscribe redryder like on the dasiy bb gun....not sure I would want wood but he does a good job working with it.......
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 124 Member | | Member Joined: May 2004 Posts: 124 | I have seen them made ouy of every thing from channel iron to well casing. Just do it the way you like and be happy.
I like old trucks
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