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Some beam progress!
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I like it!
Sho nuff,
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Why we don't have outside workshop space....
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That is so sweet! I'm jealous! I love cold Wintery days working in the garage. It looks like you've made some good progress. What's the status?
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Slow and steady on the bronco. Doing a bunch of little work not worth showing...

Also been busy working on a winch bumper for the chasetruck.
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Nice bumper! I need to do one of those on the crew cab at some point.
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Nice. How thick of plate is that?
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That one is a mix of .250, .188, and .125. I won't build one like that again, next one will be all .188 thick. I am really happy with the way it is turning out. It is designed to use a Warn 16.5 Ti winch. If people are interested I can make a build thread for it.
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Sure - make a build thread. As I said I will be making some bumpers like this in the future so I like seeing what others have done.

Did you design it on solidworks or similar or old school style with cardboard templates? While I would love to do mine in soliworks so I can send it out for bending my student edition of soliworks expired before I even really figured out the program so I will be using the cardboard method...
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Solidworks off of Ford chassis files....Cardboard works just as well, just easier to design at the computer on lunch!
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Figured as much.

If I had solidworks I'd be practicing on it since I don't know it well at all. Plus I sit here at the computer all day and could mix/sneak it in with work - haha.
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Eric,

I totally dig that zombie killer bumper. Way cool.

By the way, any headway on the aluminum half top for the race bronco?

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Pulled the glass out and started drawing the top based off the glass and the measurements off the truck. Nothing yet but drawings on a computer. Hopefully with in the next month or two I'll get around to cutting it out and begin putting it together.

Thanks for the bumper comments.
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Finished Beams
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Beautiful work! Wanna build another SD winch bumper? haha!
Just scored a used 12K Warn winch for my SD.
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Broncodawg wrote:Beautiful work!
Fo sho! They look very well thought-out.
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got the body mounted and got her rolling last weekend. Heres a couple cell pics. I'll pull some pics off the camera soon.
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Sexy!
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ChaseTruck754 wrote:Sexy!
Agreed! Tires out the back look way cool and probably nice to have some weight back there too. Still going to run Class 3 Eric?

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Looks good Eric, racing in the 500?
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