Thinking on braving some homemade Bumpers.... Who has?

I totally thought the bumper on your tacoma was ARB for a moment. That’s some good looking work!

 

Nice! Congrats on your baby. I have a couple young kids too that slow the process. I also have the arb front bumper. I feel it’s a simple bumper that will be pretty easy to easy to match the rear. I’m just thinking about my plans at this point cause I have to finish refinishing my wife’s horse trailer first. So I probably won’t be able to start bumper for a month or so.

 

Are you going to go for high clearance in the rear?

 

Of course I am haha

 

So the plan with the 2x6 rec stock is to build the rear bumper with the material on edge. I will cut the box straight forward to the fender from the highest I can go up the the tailgate. The original bumper is a little over 9” tall. So it will be a few inches more clearance. I will also build it so the 2” top edge is exposed (shorter than stock for better approach angle also) I thought about laying the material flat as I will with the sliders, but I feel this will match the front arb bumper much better. Plus I need a trailer receiver also which will be integrated instead of hanging off the bottom.

Also I don’t know if I’ll make it square or angle the rear piece yet for more clearance. I’ll figure it when I’m figuring haha.

 

I had one of his bumpers on my 1st tundra

 

That’s a really good job I’d say!

 

Did you travel to Ft. Meyers or did he ship it?

 

He shipped it, it was bad ass. Everyone complimented it. I had to downsize for awhile so I got ride of it, it sucked. I'll look for some pics

 

Haha bumper and full length sliders

 

Honestly pretty much what I’m thinking of making as well.

 

I know it not a tundra but this is what my buddy made for my Tacoma. It was so sweet and one of a kind. We built it to go over the factory bumper with no modifications at all. Rock solid and super sexy.

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/my-new-bumper-is-done.160455/

 

Cool!

 

Awesome. Maybe you can get some pros and cons from mine haha

 

This was the first version we made for my Tacoma.

This is the only picture I can find of it on my phone but it was after it took a deer. The build thread shows how we designed the fingers that went between the plastic louvred on the bumper vailance.


https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/custom-bolt-on-bumper-almost-done.62178/

 

That’s very cool. Did it help out saving the truck with the deer??

 

Any updates on the custom built bumpers, or is this a dead thread?

 

I’m almost finished fabbing my rear bumper. I’ll still add before bedliner is a couple recovery clevice lugs and steps on the sides of the bumper. Didn’t quite go with my original plans because I tweaked design as I wanted more departure angle. Pretty happy with the results. I just started my sliders this weekend as well.