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Front/ Rear bumper

From 1981 Ford Bronco “1BadBronco”, documented by Matt Kenney.

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1981 Ford Bronco - Cut the corners off of my 2" x 6" x 1/4 tube. My chop saw was barely big enough. 1981 Ford Bronco - picked up a foot of 3x6" tube for the reverse 55 W spot lights 1981 Ford Bronco - Also picked up 2 feet of 1x3" tube for my clevis's. Cut them down to 5" so they will go all the way threw the 2" thick bumper, welded to a… 1981 Ford Bronco - closer pic... still need to get a way to cut the inner peices out of the bumper! 1981 Ford Bronco - A pink-primered steel bumper clamped on a sawhorse with a rectangular cutout scribed and scribbled on its face, corner starter holes alread… 1981 Ford Bronco - 1/2 way done! 1981 Ford Bronco - Close-up of a fabricated square receiver tube welded through a pink-primered bumper or crossmember, with the trimmed opening ground flush o… 1981 Ford Bronco - hitch design 1981 Ford Bronco - stuff removed during bumper removal 1981 Ford Bronco - you can see my old hitch too 1981 Ford Bronco - shot of frame on LH side 1981 Ford Bronco - shot of frame RH side 1981 Ford Bronco - Front bumper with corners already cut and one hole for hook 1981 Ford Bronco - M1009 blazer tie downs... will be stong enough to use in tandom as recovery points 1981 Ford Bronco - I put this one on about 2 years ago 1981 Ford Bronco - both installed (kinda... still have several bolt holes to drill on the drivers side... and the frame to box) 1981 Ford Bronco - other angle. 1981 Ford Bronco - drilled all holes in the frame for the 1/2" bolts 1981 Ford Bronco - peice of plate steel ive had for a while... dang to small! 1981 Ford Bronco - how about this peice... my rear bumper mount turned 90* 1981 Ford Bronco - drilled one hole, then put the bolt in and tightened it up, aligned the peice with the frame, then took a 2lb hammer and tapped on the othe… 1981 Ford Bronco - almost all done, just have to trim a little off the bottom. 1981 Ford Bronco - one bolt in 1981 Ford Bronco - Front bumper with hooks installed 1981 Ford Bronco - Placement of Hi Lift reciever in Rear bumper 1981 Ford Bronco - how they work 1981 Ford Bronco - fits pretty good 1981 Ford Bronco - reaming out the holes for the tow hooks... way bigger then 3/4" 1981 Ford Bronco - done... had to use the dremel to ream it out even further 1981 Ford Bronco - placed in bumper to check it out 1981 Ford Bronco - Drivers side front bumper bracket almost done. Got one more corner to cut, then a lot of grinding to clean it up. 1981 Ford Bronco - another angle 1981 Ford Bronco - welded 1981 Ford Bronco - A shop-built tubular steel bumper lying on a concrete driveway, blotched with pink primer and bare grinder-cleaned weld seams. It carries t… 1981 Ford Bronco - Tight shot of the welded center section of a shop-built steel bumper on a concrete driveway, showing a notched channel gusset and square sh… 1981 Ford Bronco - A fabricated steel bumper laid diagonally across a driveway edge and lava-rock bed, its face mottled with pink primer and ground-bare metal… 1981 Ford Bronco - all ground smooth. 1981 Ford Bronco - A shop-fabricated steel bumper resting on sawhorses in a garage, its pink-primered face skim-coated with body filler around a square shackl… 1981 Ford Bronco - how it will look once mounted 1981 Ford Bronco - about 2" off the body 1981 Ford Bronco - about 2" off the body 1981 Ford Bronco - veiw where receiver tube will go to where x tube is located. 1981 Ford Bronco - cut up the steel real quick and layed it out on the sawhorses 1981 Ford Bronco - shots of about how its going to fit together, the 2.5x2.5 is going to be at the end of the bracket when its done 1981 Ford Bronco - close up of the bracket, those notches are for the shackle rivets 1981 Ford Bronco - other side 1981 Ford Bronco - Sanded all the rust off and primered finally 1981 Ford Bronco - closer look at the hitch design 1981 Ford Bronco - closer look at end caps and mounts 1981 Ford Bronco - and the bottom painted! 1981 Ford Bronco - finished!!! 1981 Ford Bronco - angle 1981 Ford Bronco - little missing paint 1981 Ford Bronco - The only real damage 1981 Ford Bronco - last spot hit.