Advocate III
20990
Staying closer to the body lines is really hard to do with a metal break. They would have to do a lot more cutting and welding to make the lines match better. I think for a piece of stamped steel they did an excellent job.
Member III
Yeah 3/16 and 1/4 steel plate aint easy at all to bend. I think it looks real good too. my only gripe would have been the angle of the stinger i think its too close to the truck and it should follow the lower skid angle more but that just me. Otherwise they did an excelent job if it will accept a skidplate.
Member III
16986
Being a designer by trade I disagree. It's called quality control. Every manufacture should build a proto type and then duplicate it when its right. It's all in the math in this case. Nothing worse than something that looks like it belongs on another vehicle. If it was home made I can understand a one shot deal. Sorry, just my quality control coming out in me.
Member III
16986
I dont think it is a metal break job. I think it is a cut and fit pieces to form the shape. That's the way my bumper is made !
Advocate III
20990
It’s a one piece bumper skin with recovery points and brush gaurs welded in... I can’t see the back side, but would assume that the mounting points are bent and welded to the skin, just like I did on my Dodge bumper
Member III
16986
Look again at his bumper, both picture's. The angle changes are too sharp to have been bent to shape. Your picture is evidence by having rounded angle changes. Nice looking BTW. Too massive for my blood but the quality is excellent.
Enthusiast III
I have it narrowed down a bit, am also on a couple Xterra forums as well, leaning towards the General Grabbers HTS60's
Member III
Not the way mine is made the whole front is pressed into shape. no welding shapes together thats how things are done on homemade builds and the welds break eventually.
Advocate III
20990
My rounded edges are 1.5x.25 DOM cold roll tubing...which makes up the framework for the bumper, one 20 foot stick bent about a million times. Then tacked the skin to the framework and bent the skin around the frame.
my bumper posted is actually a tube bumper with a skin over it...
Member III
16986
It's obvious yours is stamped with some pieces fitted unless it was stamped while red hot and form molded, and it fits, not like the one we are talking about. I just had my bumper installed and it is made of pieces, some bent and some cut and welded together, hence the sharper corners where the pieces are fitted together. Maybe mine is junk but it fits perfect to my rigs body lines. My bumper is made in the UK.
Traveler III
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. Been holding off on the winch until I can find it for the right price.
I work for the company. I think it fits nicely.
Member III
16986
Fits the frame, fits the opening, just dosent fit the grill shape, but if you like it who should care. :-)
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And now it runs...
Member III
I think the brand is costway. I dont really know what to do about the tint we cant just take off and drive the hour and half to the dealer and leave the truck with them. Id almost rather bust my windows out with a hammer and order clear windows than leave the truck with the dealer, every time weve done that the truck comes back missing bolts.
Advocate III
20990
Find another place to get the inspection done... I had an old 87 f150 I had to take to several different shops for inspection because it was made without a smog pump, the truck was originally a propane injected model sold in Kansas, that was later modified to a holly 4 barrel in another non inspecting state, and I would hook the propane system back in for inspections. Kids these days don’t know how to tell what equipment came from the factory. Finally I was able to find a shop that had a “old” inspector that new the propane injection was factory and not an add on system and passed me.
