Marlenstein bumper finally complete

[samneil2000]

Titanium?

[snowtrooper1966]

Unobtainum?
Adamantium?

[tom4bren]

Marlintanium???

[Marlin]

Alright boys and girls, I am fairly far along on Rev 2 of the bumper. I am following Orions concept. I cut the front cladding, just above the turn signal housing. I think I am going to do LED bars for the turn signals. Driving lights will go in the foglight housing. This is much easier than the original project, although not as flashy I don't think it will look as clean as Orions does, but his metal skills are far better than mine. I elected to use 2x3 1/8" tubing vice 2x4. It fit my brackets perfect. Got it all welded up, just gotta do the angles. I will post some pics soon.

[Marlin]

What I did today:
Removed marlenstein rev1 (just to make Justin happy)
Labeled all wires for future hook up
Mounted front cladding from junkyard VX
Marked off line for cutting
Cut said cladding
Tacked steel tubing to existing brackets
removed brackets, spent two hours welding (had to go to lowes to get new welding tips...grrrrr.)
Took a break
burnt all hair off of arm while cutting notch and welding first bend
remounted bumper to check bend point and fit, took some pics, smiled...
on break again


Left to go:
3 more notches and bends
final trim on cladding
cut the ends and weld caps on(not looking forward to that)
Remove entire assembly, wire brush, primer, rhino line bumper and front cladding.
Figure out something to make it stand out. No hitch this time, I have never used it.
Install foglights, LEDs, and voila, project complete.

Then its on to frame and bracket restoration with POR15. I have to install passenger seatbelt with new assembly, few tie downs in the back, and she is ready to go for Beasley Knob meet. The next project will be to tackle the brakes. I am going to try the indy4x brake lines, if no improvement, gettin new booster. Not much left to do after that.

[Ascinder]

Come on man, you know you want to

[Marlin]

Come on man, you know you want to

Thats funny, we were talking about that at work on Thur. One of the guys just bought an 84 Chevy pickup, John Deere rattle can. nice truck overall. I told him to make some railroad tie bumpers, that would rip a car in half for sure. LOL.