marlinstein gen 2 bumper

[Scott Harness]

Awe man, that sucks... It looks MUCH better than the previous one! How can I talk smack if your bumper looks good?
...yeah, you're right, I'll find a way... I think it will look pretty decent after the bedliner tho.

I like Mav's idea btw!

X2 You can't call it a monster anymore

[Marlin]

X2 You can't call it a monster anymore

Yeah, now its just kind of boring. I think my last one was functionally superior to this one. Orion's style, does not help on steep approaches. The frame rails now stick out further than the bumper brackets, making them the first thing to contact rock. Not a good idea. That is why I have to fab up that cross bar. It will protect the frame rail ends and distribute the contact force over a larger area.

Skid plate idea on hold, in my typical fashion, I got under there, pulled the cross member down, cursed a bit at all the dirt falling in my eyes and mouth. Then I noticed the heat shield forward of the cat was rusted and I thought viola, thats whats been rattling. Screwed around with that, problem solved. Then I noticed one my transfer case bolts were loose, tightened that, and the checked all of em. Then I noticed that my rear drive shaft U joint was missing a bolt!! Not sure how long that his been gone? So then I dug around the garage to find one that fit, weird size, the bolt head is not much larger than the threads,so I need to go to the store...then I thought about how to mount my license plate since it isn't visible under the spare. See where this is going? I spent two hours fiddling around with stuff that I had no intention of doing. Then I took a look at the brake lines to see how hard that job was going to be since I still have yet to install my pretty SS red lines
Long story short, I built a hitch adapter to hold my license plate. Red paint is drying as we speak Put cross member back on, noticed a drip of tranny fluid on the drain bolt, but no marks in driveway, so it must be a very slow drip. No wworries there. Now its too hot to get anything else done. SO maybe next weekend, but I am supposed to go to junkyard to get all the parts folks have been asking about and some more switches.

[Marlin]

Here is the finished license plate project, I have been driving around since last year with the plate covered, no problems, I suppose it was just a matter of time.
Here are some painted bumper pics as well.