Rear bumper D2

[Alex4x4]

Hello ,

I am Alex new to this forum,
looked around en find it an very nice forum.
I am looking for pictures of an home made rear bumper for an D2, as short as
possible to make the rear off road worthy.

In the picture you see mine Discovery,2000,TD5,automaticgearbox, 2inch tjm lift,removed the airesprings,AFN front winch bumper,rocksliders,Warn winch,central diff lock,speciaal made exhaust,ECU tunning of the enige up to 180 hp.

 

[R_Lefebvre]

Well, here's mine that I'm working on. Hope to paint it this weekend.

 

[AlexJet]

Rob done a nice work and it turns out great. Downpoint is that he spend all winter doing that...

 

[R_Lefebvre]

Heh... yeah... took a while. Though realistically with 2 young kids, that's why it took so long. And I enjoy doing the work.

A basic "Greg Davis" style rear bumper would take a lot less time.

Now, as to a discussion of "as short as possible", I found that if I had used a 4" wide beam instead of a 6" wide beam, it actually wouldn't gain much clearance at all. If you use a 4" beam, the back edge of the gas tank and the rear crossmember end up being your new catch points. And certainly, a standard trailer hitch is also going to be a bad catch point. That's why I made my whole hitch removable. Just bolt it on when I need it.

 

[michaels]

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[rovertech]

Rob,

Nice work! That looks great. The time taken was clearly well worth it. Too many people go off half cocked building bumpers and end up with a mess.

 

[Roverhound]

Mine.

 

[Alex4x4]

thank you guys for the response,

Rob's bumper is looking very,very nice, you did an
good job to make it look decently and in shape as the car.
did you make any drawings of it?


Micheal's bumper is also looking good,

micheal what's your tire size??

 

[R_Lefebvre]

Thanks guys. I hope to get it painted and installed this weekend. Can't wait to have it finished.

No, I don't have any drawings. But if you look in my build thread, you'll see a pretty good step-by-step that any builder should be able to follow. You'll have to cut through the clutter in the thread, but the detail is there. The corner pieces were built up from 14 gauge sheet metal, using cardboard to create templates.

Couple other points:

1) The plastic corner pieces. As you see, I recreated them out of metal. This is not worth the effort. The only reason I did it was because I had to because of how I made the swing away. I made the bumper beam to fit the plastic corners, but then didn't use them and made the metal to the same shape. If I were to use the plastic pieces, I would have put some black foam weatherstripping tape between the corner piece and the bumper. Just to close up the 1/2" gap that you need to leave.

2) The tire carrier. You need to be careful here with your design. If you make a high clearance bumper, it can leave your spare tire vulnerable to hitting the ground, which will mess up your door. Either build a shelf under the tire to protect it from hitting the ground, or move it up by modifying the factory tire carrier, or making a new one which bolts to the door which would be easy. I made a wing-away carrier only because I want to carry gas cans back there as well. And the shovel, pull-pall, etc.

 

[michaels]

micheal what's your tire size??

255/85

 

[Alex4x4]

255/85

how did you get it fitted ?? it wil not fit on mine

 

[AxeAngel]

He is running a lift and aftermarket bumpers. I run 33s on my trail truck, no issues with bumpers and 3.5" lift. These tires and lift will be going on my new expo truck, moving to hopefully 35s on a 4" lift on the trail truck.

-Sam

 

[X-plorenow]

your killing me Sam. I keep toying with 35"s but keep landing back on 33's.

 

[Rovertrader]

255/85s with 3" front and 2" rear lift work great on steelies