Tubular Bumpers... Can anyone make one that doesn't look like total hell?

[Dasfinc]

I'd like to make one for the front of my Explorer Sport to give it a unique look and since the whole front clip is basically garbage. Can't really find any pre-made for this application

My Truck:

What I'd like bumper wise:

Click to read more...

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

goodfellas

 

[DanJ]

I tried really hard to find a ninja turtles picture with "tubular" in it on google image search... but all i saw were mis-shaped breasts.

 

[Dasfinc]

This is better:

 

[ktraver97ss]

I wanna get a bumper made like that for my truck too. This is the first thing Das has ever posted that I agree with.



j/p

 

[CrunkMaro]

http://www.explorer4x4.com/2001exsprt.html

 

[GOON]

my buddy has a lifted explorer, he used to have a 4inch lift and it looked about as big as the one in the link. this is it now:sorry for the huge pic

 

[Angus]

Who you going to try to kid? It's 2wd...

 

[bikrboy128]

leave the stock bumper on.

 

[Dasfinc]

Who you going to try to kid? It's 2wd...

leave the stock bumper on.

Its just a 'style' The front bumper is jacked up anyways *Rusted a bit, has a small bend to it, and missing the lower valence*, and Pre-Runners are 2wd...

I don't want to build some retarded big off-road project (Especially with a 2wd)

I just want to 'make it my own' essentially, and make it look a bit better.



@GOON, That thing is nasty, that's an SAS Swapped explorer.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I like that first bumper. I think a small lift and some beefy tires will set it off.....especially being a 2 door

 

[Dasfinc]

I like that first bumper. I think a small lift and some beefy tires will set it off.....especially being a 2 door

3 inch suspension lift on 2wd 2 door is only $350, and I'm going to put my rangers Cragars on it. I am not going drop thousands on a long-travel suspension kit that has no use in IL

 

[Angus]

I am not going drop thousands on a long-travel suspension kit that has no use in 2wd

Fix't

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Fix't

Do you not realize pre-runner trucks (you know, the ones they use to map out baja races) are 2wd? Same thing with stadium trucks, baja trucks etc.

Nowhere did I see him say he wants his explorer to look like a mudding truck or rock climber.

 

[Angus]

I seen it.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Not at all related but this looks sweet.

 

[Angus]

I agree. PS an explorer on that drivetrain and I might be sold. - I just have this stigma about explorers that they were the best soccer mom mobile in the mid 90's.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I think you are just clueless. That's all.

 

[Angus]

Could be it too.

Thanks Joel.

 

[GOON]

Its just a 'style' The front bumper is jacked up anyways *Rusted a bit, has a small bend to it, and missing the lower valence*, and Pre-Runners are 2wd...

I don't want to build some retarded big off-road project (Especially with a 2wd)

I just want to 'make it my own' essentially, and make it look a bit better.



@GOON, That thing is nasty, that's an SAS Swapped explorer.

yep i think its out of a old jeep wrangler, he has a carbed 302 that he is planing on installing in the near future. the little 4.0 v6 and stock trans/tranfer case dont like moving those big tire's anymore.

 

[Dasfinc]

yep i think its out of a old jeep wrangler, he has a carbed 302 that he is planing on installing in the near future. the little 4.0 v6 and stock trans/tranfer case dont like moving those big tire's anymore.

Surprised he doesn't just stuff an EFI V-8 in there, Plug and play swap, costs like $250 from a junkyard

 

[bikrboy128]

Do you not realize pre-runner trucks (you know, the ones they use to map out baja races) are 2wd? Same thing with stadium trucks, baja trucks etc.

those have a little more than some tires and a bumper into them.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

those have a little more than some tires and a bumper into them.

Well obviously....but anus was stuck on it being 2wd.

I didnt bring up that he paid too much for the gayest form of a mustang ever randomly in a thread.


oops.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Putting a tubular bumper on a truck that you have no intention on wheeling/mudding with is the equivalent of people buying an F350 and putting 6" of lift and 37s on it that will NEVER see mud let alone a dirt back road. Look at the pic GOON posted. That truck has and is made to see mud and it doesn't even have a tubular bumper.

Unique my ass. It looks stupid as fuck if you don't use it.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I want a ram rod bumper