Ford Raptor Homemade Bumper

[ISFast]

I don't get on it under 20 mph unless its pointed in a straight direction haha... seriously!

 

[thewhorne]

Are you planning on a rear bumper at all? I'am getting ready to do my rear bumper before the front(since i ripped off the old one while playing in the woods) and am trying to wrap my head around designing the rear mounts.

 

[ISFast]

Are you planning on a rear bumper at all? I'am getting ready to do my rear bumper before the front(since i ripped off the old one while playing in the woods) and am trying to wrap my head around designing the rear mounts.

Yeah I plan on doing the rear probably after TRR 2013. I'm not 100% sure which way I want to go which is why I haven't started the rear yet. Dont know if I want to cut the angle off the back of the bed or If I want to go more of a armored look. If I don't cut the bed it will be more of a heavy duty bumper. If I do cut it, then it will be single pipe.

 

[DrippinRaptor]

Very impressive!

 

[ISFast]

Photo updates of what it looks today... well yesterday but hey who's counting/cares!

 

[Nignipz]

Ok... So I've put off posting about my bumper for some reason or another, but want to kind of give some feed back as to how I built it.

I built my bumper back in 2010ish maybe first of 2011 I didn't like how the bumpers that were out took the stock tow hooks away which to me didn't seem like the best idea. I wanted something that looked good but didn't take to much away from the truck. I came up with an image i wanted to go with that flowed well and added on from there. I will have to give my father some credit for helping me get this thing going and added a few ideas on how to get started.

I only used a few tools that are pretty easy to find and fairly easy to use.

Some of them include: welder, plasma cutter, grinder, wire brush, drill, drill bits, wrenches to take stock bumper off and put the new one on, tape measure, some cardboard, a few sharpies, quarters, string, pipe stands, ply wood, cheap pipe bender, black tape, and some synthetic sand.

Ok for the start and yes I pretty much suck for write ups.... I'm a little scatter brained.

Here is what the original idea was going to be:

Then after that look I tried to closely match it. Not having a little welding or plasma cutter at my personal house I started this project back at the parents.

This is where the ol' man comes into play for helping me with starting off. I took off the stock bumper and found what I was going to be working with. So I made plates to work off:

The easiest way I could think of how to "jig" up haha was with stands and ply wood. I used one of my HID lights and put on the ply wood where I wanted it placed compared to the rest of the truck. I then took a string and quarters and marked where I was going to put bends in the pipe with my cheap harbor freight bender.

Like this:

Then once I had it marked out I started bending the top pipe to fit the line:

Once the top pipe had all the correct bends in it to match the line that was made I took out the ply wood and had the pipe stands hold the pipe in place for attachment points to be made:

Then cut out some cardboard for a template to make the actual plate metal for the attachment point:

Ones your pipe is welded to the the attachment plates you can fill the side plates in. I used more cardboard to get a good match to the rest of it:

Once they are all on there thats when I put in a draw bar to hang the lights from on the back side of the 2" main frame pipe:

Then after that I drilled holes for the lights, but making sure I had room for my upright 1" bars I started on the top baja looking bar:

This is the bender I used and to make the bends not deform I filled it with bauxite due to sand was crushing on the 2" main bar and the angles weren't near as much. The 4130 chromoly pipe was that strong:

Here it is tacked up to the 2":

After that is attached I started to finish it out with the support 1" bars to the upper loop:

I welded in tabs for the skid plate and cut it out to fit flush but don't really have good pics of that. Also, I put in a brace bar from the outer edge back to the frame to really add strength to the front end. Once that was all finished I sanded it down and just spray painted it before powdercoat just to make sure i didn't want to change something about it.

Here it is before paint:

Can you repost this the photos all aren't working

 

[SchultzLD]

I thought it was just my work computer, I saved the link and was gonna try tonight at home.

 

[Madcowranch]

ISFast has mad fab skills!

 

[Yukon Joe]

Calling @ISFast

Yukon Joe

 

[ISFast]

Well looks like the old URLs from Facebook have been broken. It might take a minute to get them attached to the website directly. There's just a couple....

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I'll just leave this here. (Latest Pic of the truck last month at Caffeine and Gasoline in Tulsa) I'll see if i can get the other ones working.