I spent my last 2 days off building it and it's finally on there! It's not totally finished yet, I still need to add some bracing under the winch plate to reinforce it more, but at least it's on there! Much better than the plastic skin only I've been running most of the winter with... LOL! I'm also going to be adding a brush guard of sorts to it to help protect the grille and headlights, but until I get it added, I'm running the old, cracked up grille.
Anyways, here's a few pics of it:
I might be adding a skidplate to it as well, just depends on how much frame repair I end up doing and whether it's worth adding this late after bashing on it.
Today I finished drilling the remaining holes for a total of 8 big mounting screws through 1/4" plate brackets welded to the back of the bumper and I mounted the winch. I put on a 6000lb Milemarker. I just have to make a parts store run for some more 4g cable to finish hooking up the solenoid box and it will be functional. It got dark on me in my driveway, so the finished pics will have to wait until tomorrow at least.
BTW, the bumper is made from a big chunk of 5", thick-walled square tube and the ends not only taper up and back on the outside, but the ends actually sweep back in the rear, too. Plus I added a 2" receiver hitch to it as well. I'm not too sure what I'm going to use it for yet, but I figured I'd add it while I was building it and also since I had the hitch laying around not doing anything... LOL!
So, what do you guys think?
